Re: Which programming jobs will not be sent overseas?

From: Edward G. Nilges (spinoza1111_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/04/04 

Date: 4 Jan 2004 02:13:46 -0800

Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:<bt34rh$d68$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
> beliavsky@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Many American programmers are justifiably worried about programming
> > jobs going overseas. What kinds of programming jobs are most likely to
> > stay in the U.S.?
>
> This is an international technical newsgroup, not a jobs board. Would you
> please be so kind as to ask it somewhere where it's topical? Pretty please?

Richard, FYI, a jobs board is where people go when they are actively
seeking work. This poster has asked a question of interest not only to
people actively seeking work but also to people contemplating a career
in programming, or a career change.

However, since it is exclusively about the human art and science of
programming, the question concerns the topic of this newsgroup.

Exclusive focus on machines and software artifacts is more appropriate
to specific newsgroups where the name of the hardware or software
system is in the name of the newsgroup. Posts specifically on C (for
example), including your valuable content, won't be retrieved if they
are made here in the illusory belief that is fostered by your focus
trolling.

This is the illusory belief of people who no longer have Marcuse's
name for surplus repression, because they LIVE lives of surplus
repression. Because surplus repression is so global to their lives,
they form the false belief that excessive repression, in the form of
posts overspecialized to this newsgroup, are not violations equal in
status to out of area posts.

Furthermore, exclusive focus on machines and software artifacts
downsizes the human spirit. Evidence for this is found in the damaged
souls who transfer their own deep seated feelings of inadequacy to
outlier cases whose personal or programming style deviates from a
deviant norm.

Conduct a thought experiment. It is 1972, but because of the election
of Barry Goldwater in 1964, massive government investment in high
technology has resulted in the early invention of the Internet, and
survivors of the 1967 nuclear interchange between the US and the
Soviet Union are able to access the Internet.

Suppose Gerald Weinberg posts a draft of his classic of that year or
thereabouts, The Psychology of Computer Programming. Along comes
Dickie Heathfield and flames Weinberg because "this is a TECHNICAL
newsgroup and not a psychology newsgroup."

Conduct a thought experiment. It is 1974, but because of the election
of the perennial Socialist candidate Norman Thomas, massive government
investment in high technology, etc.. Brian Kernighan posts a draft of
his classic of that year or thereabouts, The Elements of Programming
Style. Along comes Dickie Heathfield and flames Kernighan because
"this is a TECHNICAL newsgroup and not a literary bun fight".

Conduct a thought experiment (I know it's hard, but "cudgel thy
brains"). It is 1975, but Ed Nilges got into Stanford after all and
invented the Internet in 1970 as his PhD thesis along with Al Gore and
the Tooth Fairy. Frederick R. Brooks posts a draft of his "essays on
software engineering".

Up roars good old Dickie Heathfield and flames Brooks because "this is
a TECHNICAL newsgroup and not a literature class".

Technical progress proceeds only when exogenous information disrupts
the status quo, including people who promote outdated languages for
pecuniary advantage.

Therefore I'll have to ask you to cease and desist this trolling.
Thanks!
>
> (There are plenty of us.jobs newsgroups.)
>
> Thanks.

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