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The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing

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Re: The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing

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...and the coming rise of Indian entrepreneurship. People are often too quick to cry racism, but I really think that's the only explanation for all these "India isn't a problem" stories. Most Indian engineers are Java drones, but guess what... most American programmers are Java drones. And yeah, there's a new generation that's prosperous on relatively less effort, but have you taken a look at Silicon Valley lately? U…

Many very smart people built amazing products in Java (Google, Amazon, Ebay). Calling them drones makes you sound like an amateur.

He's not saying everyone who uses Java is a drone. He's saying most Indians (and Americans) are Java drones.

Re: The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing

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...and the coming rise of Indian entrepreneurship. People are often too quick to cry racism, but I really think that's the only explanation for all these "India isn't a problem" stories. Most Indian engineers are Java drones, but guess what... most American programmers are Java drones. And yeah, there's a new generation that's prosperous on relatively less effort, but have you taken a look at Silicon Valley lately? U…

Many very smart people built amazing products in Java (Google, Amazon, Ebay). Calling them drones makes you sound like an amateur.

You're right. I didn't mean to imply everyone who uses Java was a drone, but there is a class of Java users who are heavily dependent on frameworks and couldn't code anything from scratch.

I myself have written in Java for one of the companies on your list.

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