If they make the 'best offer' and the pay gap still exists, M. Pao will go nuts. Therefore, this is unlikely to happen. This means either:
- Women get offered more pay than they would be willing to work for (poor business decision)
- They refuse to negotiate and try to save some cash and 'agressive negotiators' take up offers elsewhere

The second scenario is likelier which means e go from "Lower pay for equal work" to "Equal pay for better work" for women. This cannot be proven, so everyone's happy with this compromise (except the reddit shareholders)

With outsourcing, you get what you pay for. Most outsourcing programs are cost-cutting measures. Companies go to the cheapest vendor available and expect comparable results. And when that does not happen, they feel comfortable and safe in the fact that "Indian IT personnel are less competent".

When you have a large number of IT graduates, you can expect a lot more incompetent graduates as well. And that is exactly what you get when you go to "IT sweatshops". Successful outsourcing programs would be found amongst the companies that pay the best salaries and rely on the PPP differences to bring the cost advantage. If you can get a selection of the top 10% of the talent in the US for $200,000, I would assume you can get comparable talent (top 1% in India) for $120,000. But this is not a common way to go about outsourcing. Ask those that do and you would be surprised at what is possible.

The issue is not about racial or genetic advantages. It is a question of comparative advantages and available resources between the two countries.

Cheers!

I do not know if I should apologize for RTFA or that I made the post above without doing so....

Blindingly obvious to me is the fact that voice calls and SMS reaches me even without a high bandwidth 3G or faster data connection. If this leads to better network coverage for high speed data, I will be the first to celebrate, but until then I will stick to a split data/voice provider ... or one that can transition relatively seamlessly between the two types of networks...

Cheers!

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This product was on display at CeBIT and I tried it out. The calibration takes about 45 minutes, but after that period, each letter took about 10 seconds and I was rapidly improving. In principle, I would also assume that they could extend the technology to words rather than letters and combine it with some kind of predictive text input.

I really hope you find a solution that works and I think the community at large would appreciate if you could document the experience and the successes I hope you have in such a situation.

I would also ask if you could make this some kind of a collaborative project over the interwebs. There must be more people in this situation and countless people like myself who would be motivated to work on this challenge...

Let's get to it!

Could be messy, but ultimately, would a 'rolling regeneration' of our organs conveniently sidestep cellular senescence? Can you hear me now?

I think this brand I use can help with the brain rinsing... it's called P-504 or 504P or something...

No left left behind..

1) Contract 3 developers:
- Developer to develop the code
- Tester to test the damn thing and find bugs
- Bug fixer to fix the damn bugs

2) From your experience, you should be able to set bonus related targets for each guy...

3) ????

4) Profit!!

Doesn't this translate into some kind of propaganda to influence what people care about when buying a car?

Have we collectively decided as a society that we are willing to compromise further on free speech to reduce emissions and fuel consumption (manufacturers should be free to decide how to advertise their cars)?

For the record: I do not deny climate change or its anthropogenic components - I just think the solution is to tax fuel, enforce truth in advertising (to prevent fraud) and wait for the technological breakthroughs that will make us look like luddites...

In America, gas typically refers to petrol (and colloquially, anything you put into your vehicle as fuel).

In Europe, gas typically refers to Autogas (LPG) ...

In Soviet Russia, your uncle's car converts petrol into gas ...

Cheers!

Seconded...
oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/435/

This, but with a different conclusion. Learning programming meant I was able to do a different degree while working in the software industry and taking electives or doing a minor in CS. Eventually I ended up being competent in both areas which led to opportunities to dabble in an exponentially larger set of subjects...

For a student with a strong math/science background, MATLAB might be useful to learn especially if he decides to pursue engineering. It helps you to learn fundamental programming (at least procedural programming) concepts while not requiring too much time to get up an running. The symbolic toolbox along with more traditional capabilities will also give him a massive leg up in doing assignments and projects because he can focus on learning concepts in most of his classes rather than executing procedural mathematical techniques (matrix operations and PDEs, I am looking at you...).
P.S. I know a TI-xx can do some of this, but calculators are the slide rules of the 21st century...

I think the kid would be better off learning touchscreen typing...