Bob La Quey wrote:
One needs only look at the high percentages of immigrants
and the immediate children of immigrants in science and
engineering to see what a large advantage this is. It is
ironic in a way that so many immigrants see an advantage
to a career in science or engineering as compared to the
native born Americans.
You need to ask yourself why those immigrants chose to come to the USA
instead of any of the many other places they could have gone, including
China and India.
I would also ask myself why ASCII is so ubiquitous. :-)
While I agree about the fact of a rich and thriving
entrepreneurial market I am not sure this makes an
important contribution to this being a good place for
software engineering. Perhaps you would elaborate.
Because being good at what you do is rewarded. When you're one of the
best, and you can go anywhere you want, where do you go? Likely to the
place where excellence is best rewarded and many other excellent people
already are.
- The USA has a declining currency (makes local labor cheaper)
Yes but that may well be cyclic.
Especially since the US has never thrown away all their money and
started over. We still have the same currencies we started with 200
years ago. (Well, other than that they're now fiat scrip instead of
actual gold or something - I mean we still have pennies and dollars,
rather than having the smallest coin being 1000 lira or having "new
pesos" because the old pesos were worthless.)
Generally the USA has for decades benefited from the brain drain
of talent from poorer countries, i.e. many of those immigrants. But
as those countries move up the economic ladder the USA becomes
less attractive.
This is true.
I wonder what the numbers for educated Indians look like
now that better opportunities are opening up in India?
I understand that India isn't getting nearly as much outsourcing from
the US at this point either, because the overhead is no longer offset by
the cheap prices.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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