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About Misterd

Born in Redruth, Cornwall. Software Engineer based in the United Kingdom, but I travel frequently to the U.S.A. and Japan. Interested in the American space program and indeed all things American since I was in school. Looking forward to the first joint U.S./U.K. manned flight to Mars. (Yes, I am a dreamer.) Critical of outsourcing. I made one trip to India, not terribly impressed by what I saw.



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  • Oct 8th, 2009 @ 1:35am

    Hire the best programmers (as Dave Reeves)

    I agree that we should hire the best programmers regardless of nationality, as long as they are American. For you third-world types who don't comprehend English - yes that was sarcasm.

    My point is that engineering groups consist of human beings, not calculating machines. You can't interchange humans the way you can machines. There is such a thing as a human system that works and one that doesn't. India, for example, doesn't work. Japan does. America used to but it's crumbling fast. It all comes down to the human system.

    Here is America we need engineers such as those who designed the hardware and software systems that ran the Apollo moon landings, to take just one example. There was no 'diversity' among the engineers, they were all patriotic white American males who belonged to the same culture.

    Do you wonder why America is crumbling? It is because a mishmash of many different national and ethnic groups can never work together as well as a group that had essentially the same upbringing and education and can work together for a common goal.

    Wake up, all those who think a group from Bangalore could ever function the way the Apollo team did.

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