http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/05/stress-stress-and-more-stress Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:31:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/05/stress-stress-and-more-stress#comment-12261 Rants and Revelations » More of the same. Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:42:00 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/05/stress-stress-and-more-stress#comment-12261 [...] Still muddling along on the project mentioned in Rants and Revelations » Stress, stress, and more stress. My boss wants my bit to be test-able and demo-able by the first of the month, and I’m not sure I can do it. I don’t think the other bits are going any better. The Chinese team have delivered something, but we can’t test it yet until my bit and Tony’s bit are finished. Kris is working on a bit that we were going to farm out to the Chinese team, but we decided it would be faster for him to do it than to try to explain it to them. It seems that in order specify the requirement in sufficent detail that you could just hand it over to a foreign team, you need a formal language. And the formal language we know best and can produce fastest is Java. [...] [...] Still muddling along on the project mentioned in Rants and Revelations » Stress, stress, and more stress. My boss wants my bit to be test-able and demo-able by the first of the month, and I’m not sure I can do it. I don’t think the other bits are going any better. The Chinese team have delivered something, but we can’t test it yet until my bit and Tony’s bit are finished. Kris is working on a bit that we were going to farm out to the Chinese team, but we decided it would be faster for him to do it than to try to explain it to them. It seems that in order specify the requirement in sufficent detail that you could just hand it over to a foreign team, you need a formal language. And the formal language we know best and can produce fastest is Java. [...]

]]> http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/05/stress-stress-and-more-stress#comment-11823 Harry Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:47:09 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/10/05/stress-stress-and-more-stress#comment-11823 Outsourcing can't replace a stateside programmer who can view everything comprehensively and intelligently. There's always a need for an in-house expert to be able to really turn the quantity of the outsourcers into quality. Outsourcing can’t replace a stateside programmer who can view everything comprehensively and intelligently. There’s always a need for an in-house expert to be able to really turn the quantity of the outsourcers into quality.

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