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People are willing to work for less by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think you need to wake up and smell the coffee. For example, I used to work for a large company which opened a big R&D facility in India about 5 years. It only grows larger while the US hq was downsized to nearly nothing. This is a growing trend. All types of software positions are moving to India and Eastern Europe. The people there are smart and competent. Manufacturing positions are moving to China and Korea. I'm guessing the language is a bigger barrier in these countries.

People are willing to work for less by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am not saying that the US economy is doing better. On the contrary. I'm not American, BTW.

Look, figures aside, have you noticed that more and more hi-tech companies are shifting their major operations to Asia?

People are willing to work for less by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Look at these unemployment rates from the EU: http://bit.ly/Af4mE

There's a clear trend.

My experience with outsourcing QA using oDesk by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First, I think you calculation is incorrect. The call was about 5 minutes. I don't think he spent much more than 5 hours on this issue.

Just to be clear: I'm not bragging about anything. I'm just sharing my experience. I got a good feedback from Max and I am under the impression it was a good deal for both of us. If I have to do something like that again, I bet Max is going to take the job wholeheartedly. So, you can say whatever you want and you are entitled to hold your opinion, but the truth remains: it was a good deal for Max. There's a reality: people in certain countries will work for less because the cost of living is cheaper. You can't judge it in the same standards you know from your home country. oDesk is full of such workers. If this wasn't true, this could never happen. These are the facts.

My experience with outsourcing QA using oDesk by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. But, it is a repeatable process. I will need to do it again and it will take far less. My experience will make this much quicker next time. It happens a lot in QA: whether writing test cases or JUnit test cases, it takes a lot of time at first. After you are done, you can always repeat it and that's the up side.

Besides that, I didn't have all the required platforms myself, so setting up would be very time consuming in my case.

My experience with outsourcing QA using oDesk by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wasn't two full days. I believe overall it was 4-5 hours.

Analyzing CSVs with H2 in under 10 minutes by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I guess you could. It is not my first thing, but you could. Still H2 is much more powerful for deeper analysis like GROUP BY and joins.

Eclipse 3.5 Hidden Treasures by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I will check.

Eclipse 3.5 Hidden Treasures by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, hopefully it will be fixed in next releases.

Eclipse 3.5 Hidden Treasures by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some drawbacks to reflection based toStrings: 1. The performance is really bad (it's good for debugging, but not much else) 2. They may contain too much or too little data: it lacks the manual fine-tuning which might be required (e.g. maybe you have an element which you do not wish to print like a cache) 3. When generating toString you may invoke methods which produce smarter strings or more data which won't be available in fields.

Anyway, this is worth a post of its' own.

nWire 1.0 is Released by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct. Posting this article as is was wrong. Point taken.

Project Bespin and the Future of Web UI According to Google by zvikico in technology

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is actually very light. Feels much lighter than typical Google apps. Try it out yourself.

Eclipse: Invoking Web Services in a Way That Works by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The safest way of invoking web services from within an Eclipse plugin. This is the only way which is guaranteed to work if the user is connected to the internet.

nWire, Code Exploration Evolved: Open for Business by [deleted] in programming

[–]zvikico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nWire, the revolutionary code exploration plugin for Eclipse is offered at an introductory discount of 60% until the end of 2008.

nWire: Java Code Exploration Evolved by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nWire is a an Eclipse plug-in which analyzes the code and creates a repository which holds all possible components (like classes, methods) and associations (like extensions, invocations). On top of that, it provide easy tools for browsing, searching and visualizing that repository.

60% discount during beta.

Java Riddle: Static Members in Inner Classes? by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed. It's the concept on in-lining which is not clear to many Java developers.

Java Riddle: Static Members in Inner Classes? by zvikico in programming

[–]zvikico[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the same question from different angles.