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Interesting article. The company I worked at in 2009 outsourced a number of projects to you-know-where. Among other responsibilities they were also commissioned to run test scripts and regression tests, etc all of which were given to them as part of the knowledge transfer phase. About eight months later they applied a database update that ran incorrectly albeit successfully. I was told that about a week later the proverbial brown stuff hit the fan. It was proved that they never ran the test scripts or regression tests. It apparently took about two weeks to roll-back to the previous production copy and then apply the transaction updates. Needless to say, the company threw the book at them and lost a number of business deals during the downtime. They had to ask one of the redundant developers who worked on a key system to come back in and advise them. He did, at a take-it-or-leave-it daily rate which I believe was close to an eye-watering £900 a day which was passed onto the outsourcing company as part of the penalty condition clauses for poor delivery of service.
I'm sure there are many successful outsourcing initiatives.
When I buy power tools I buy only the best. I've learned from experience that if you pay less to buy cheaper it can cost you twice as much: the first time to realise that the reliability and quality were a mistake and the second to buy what you should have bought first time. Naturally I will not name the outsourcing company or the UK company involved in order to protect the innocent.
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Tablet computing is here, whether you like it or not.
Source: AllThingsD
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AKA "Lion iCloud Edition".
Source: TIME
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The smart money is on Android, iOS... and Windows Phone?
Source: SRT Solutions
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Both, and the differences teach us much about Ruby internals.
Source: Pat Shaughnessy
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Down vote with no explanation countered. I do not use Ruby but feel in this type of forum a down vote should be explained.
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Thanks. I'm sort of unclear on the concept of downvoting a news item. If you don't agree, ignore or explain what's wrong with it. We all learn that way.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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For the edification of the autodidact.
Source: Eric Moritz
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If only I could battle buggy code with a D20.
Source: Andy Budd
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Your random numbers aren't as random as you think.
Source: NYTimes.com
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As the need for more secure mobile communications has gone up, the price has come down.
Source: Ars Technica
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Copyright, copy-left... let's call the whole thing off.
Source: Stephen O'Grady
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Fixing four issues that have caused me the most grief.
Source: Matt Might
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Just a brief "thanks" for posting these links. I really appreciate them.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
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We may need to completely redefine the way we view the web.
Source: Trent Walton
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Go from zero to web scale with these educational links.
Source: Rinat Abdullin
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