Corporations have been creating common, repetitive tasks long before the computer was inventive (see your local American automobile manufacturing plant for a living musuem to this mentality.) The common, repetitive tasks of the future may be different but they will always be around. The real reason corporations are outsourcing is that there is a shortage of programmers in the developed world. The labor cost may be lower in India but the infrastructure sucks. Throw in high telecom charges and back-up electricity costs and developement in India isn't really very much cheaper than hiring another warm body just out of college. The truth is writing code is one of those jobs Americans don't want to do. Hacking is fun and interesting but rarely useful. Startups may do some hacking but you can't build any sort of industry based on 99% of the effort being thrown away.
Daniel Miessler
· 3 years ago
I think you are missing the defenition of hacking that I'm using. In this case, hacking = *creating*, i.e. coming up with new ideas. This is as opposed to implementing something that someone else came up with.
Take, for example, Del.icio.us. It's an idea. Someone came up with it where it wasn't there before. Now, who actually codes it isn't so important. It's only slightly important now because it's not trivial to do so. But once it is, it'll be much less valuable (obviously).
As such, the only commodity will be those who can come up with new ideas -- not those that can implement them.
Realize, though, I'm talking about a long time in the future -- not in like 2008 or something.
Thoughts?
Tim
· 3 years ago
Just wanted to say it's nice to see the old Daniel Miessler theme up that I've come to love.
But my reason for this post is to commend you on your use of the word "hacking". A lot of people think of hacking as a negative thing, when the true spirit of the word is quite positive.
Tim
· 3 years ago
hmmm... don't know what I was talking about in that last comment. Here at home, it shows the new theme. Guess my browser at work has a cached .css or something.
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The truth is writing code is one of those jobs Americans don't want to do.
Hacking is fun and interesting but rarely useful. Startups may do some hacking but you can't build any sort of industry based on 99% of the effort being thrown away.
Take, for example, Del.icio.us. It's an idea. Someone came up with it where it wasn't there before. Now, who actually codes it isn't so important. It's only slightly important now because it's not trivial to do so. But once it is, it'll be much less valuable (obviously).
As such, the only commodity will be those who can come up with new ideas -- not those that can implement them.
Realize, though, I'm talking about a long time in the future -- not in like 2008 or something.
Thoughts?
But my reason for this post is to commend you on your use of the word "hacking". A lot of people think of hacking as a negative thing, when the true spirit of the word is quite positive.