[ale] H1B -- What To Do

[cfowler]

You tariff the hourly rate.  Maybe $10 - $20 per hour.  Proctetive
Tariffs are not meant for revenue.  They are meant to protect US
citizens



On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 08:59, Malcolm Silberman wrote:
> and how do you tariff a 3k C file being sent across the Internet?
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> protective tariffs
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 07:49, Malcolm Silberman wrote:
> > There is another dynamic coming into play that you should be aware of.
> Tons
> > of projects are being shipped off-shore. As an example we get our coding
> > done in India from anywhere between $10 to $30 per hour. On this side the
> > skill set required is not hard-core programmers but rather integration
> > experts, project managers and the like.
> >
> > The quality of the work is often quite high, and as good as I have
> > encountered here in the US. The projects all seem to come in at or under
> > budget and clients are satisfied. The biggest challenge is in the same old
> > project management issues we have always faced. Technologies such as chat,
> > forums, bug tracking all make this type of development model fairy
> workable.
> >
> > Whether H1B's are disappearing or not - factor this often unseen dynamic
> on
> > the developer economy. There is little that government imposition can do,
> > and retraining in core languages may not be the approach to take. However,
> > opportunities at a co-ordination and control level seem to be relevant.
> > (Obviously a core understanding of software languages is still needed).
> >
> > Malcolm
> >
> >
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