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  • J Jorgen Andersson

    His name is missing two dots, otherwise I'd have guessed he's from Sweden. BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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    JimmyRopes
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    Jörgen Andersson wrote:

    BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

    Yes, thank you, I moved servers and didn't update that web site. I spent 2 years working on it but ran out of money, story of my life, before it was completed. I will remove the link. If I can figure out how?

    The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
    Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
    Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
    I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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    • J Jorgen Andersson

      His name is missing two dots, otherwise I'd have guessed he's from Sweden. BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

      Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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      JimmyRopes
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      Jörgen Andersson wrote:

      BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

      Yes, thank you, I moved servers and didn't update that web site. I spent 2 years working on it but ran out of money, story of my life, before it was completed. I will remove the link. If I can figure out how?

      The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
      Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
      Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
      I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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      • J JimmyRopes

        Jörgen Andersson wrote:

        BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

        Yes, thank you, I moved servers and didn't update that web site. I spent 2 years working on it but ran out of money, story of my life, before it was completed. I will remove the link. If I can figure out how?

        The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
        Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
        Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
        I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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        JimmyRopes
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        just to see signature

        The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
        Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
        I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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        • J Jorgen Andersson

          His name is missing two dots, otherwise I'd have guessed he's from Sweden. BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

          Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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          JimmyRopes
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          Jörgen Andersson wrote:

          BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

          Gone. :-D

          The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
          Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
          I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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          • R realJSOP

            Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

            ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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            When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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            RaisKazi
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            You actually counted All !!! :laugh:

            Change is a pattern of life.

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            • J Jorgen Andersson

              His name is missing two dots, otherwise I'd have guessed he's from Sweden. BTW, your link to ProActive Secure Systems fails with a "500 Internal Server Error"

              Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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              Orjan Westin
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              Yup. I dropped the dots when I moved to England, as it was too tiresome to try to explain to people that it wasn't because I like heavy metal. :-D

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              • R realJSOP

                Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                Roger Wright
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                Have you looked into this product[^]? ;)

                Will Rogers never met me.

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                • R realJSOP

                  Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                  ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                  You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                  When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                  jschell
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                  John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                  Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                  As a thought maybe the Americans should spend some more time doing the job rather than counting? Just a thought.

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                  • E Erudite_Eric

                    What part of the US are you in? It isn't that bad in the UK, no where near, only a few Asians, so I guess the US must have really pushed to get them over while at the same time Americans didn't fancy a life as a coder. Don't blame them, its a pretty crap job in many ways, and you have to be cut out for it.

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                    jschell
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                    Erudite_Eric wrote:

                    What part of the US are you in?

                    Presumably you are not assuming that that is a statistical breakdown of the developer market in the US or even an area in the US?

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                    • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                      You think that is bad, where I am currently has decided to move away from programmers and outsource (sole source) to two companies in India both convicted of felonies in the U.S. for Visa fraud. We have so many people on site that are rotated out ... in fact, some of them were involved in the recent Visa Fraud case. It isn't that there aren't enough developers in the United States but that companies think they don't need to have skill. Instead they outsource but don't insource the required staff to properly create specifications. So what you get is a large group of people that will say yes all the way until you hit a mountain. With no offense to any person from India, when I was learning to be a pilot I was warned by numerous instructors, When you here some one with an Accent from India be on the lookout, they will follow the rules into the ground. As a pilot with less than 200 hours I have had three encounters which I would say, "I am glad I was on the look out" but nothing reportable. Personally, I think outsource could be great but, I have yet to see a place where the programmers in house didn't spend the morning fixing the errors from overseas the previous night. I even worked at a place that gave the overseas people a "fake" environment and just did the work themselves because the offshore center did more bad than good.

                      Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch

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                      Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                      I even worked at a place that gave the overseas people a "fake" environment and just did the work themselves because the offshore center did more bad than good.

                      Wow. Actually, wow about your whole post, but that last thing, that is just amazing. Marc

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                      • J jschell

                        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                        Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                        As a thought maybe the Americans should spend some more time doing the job rather than counting? Just a thought.

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                        JimmyRopes
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                        jschell wrote:

                        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                        Walking around the office this all morning, I counted name plates - five Americans European immigrants and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                        As a thought maybe the Americans should spend some more time doing the job rather than counting?

                        Now you know what he does all day. :rolleyes:

                        The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
                        Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
                        I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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                        • R Roger Wright

                          Have you looked into this product[^]? ;)

                          Will Rogers never met me.

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                          JimmyRopes
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                          It would definitely come in handy so that John can communicate with of his work mates. :-D

                          The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
                          Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
                          I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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                          • R realJSOP

                            Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                            ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                            You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                            When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                            Dr Walt Fair PE
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                            Well, in my office there are 3 Chinese, 1 from UAE, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Pakistan, 5 Persians and 1 American. I am the lone American and am definitely out numbered.

                            CQ de W5ALT

                            Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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                            • R realJSOP

                              Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                              ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                              -----
                              You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                              When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                              Mycroft Holmes
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                              I know how you feel, from the other side. My team, 3 or possibly 4 locals, 6 Indian, 1 from Burma, 2 from the Philippines and me!

                              Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                              • O Orjan Westin

                                Yup. I dropped the dots when I moved to England, as it was too tiresome to try to explain to people that it wasn't because I like heavy metal. :-D

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                                Jorgen Andersson
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                                :)

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                                • R realJSOP

                                  Walking around the office this morning, I counted name plates - five Americans and 26 Indian/Pakistani.

                                  ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                  You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                                  When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                  enhzflep
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                                  So what's the depressing part? - That you're prepared to work for a small sum of money - That your fellow country-men are less hard-working than others - Or that your performance is scrutinized more than it may have been in the past. As a 4th/5th generation Aussie, I can assure you that in a previous job at a local university, the hardest workers were all in from families that had been here for less time than mine, the majority coming from India or Sri-Lanka. They were the least likely to goof-off if they had 'spare' time when there was a process that could be improved, and the most likely to be what I considered bright. They were incidentally, the most friendly and family-oriented people too. Sure, my sample-size was tiny - there were only 300 of us that I had regular/semi-regular contact with. But I'd work with 'imports' every day of the week if I could, much sooner than 'locals'. Complacency is the enemy of the successful. :)

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                                  • E enhzflep

                                    So what's the depressing part? - That you're prepared to work for a small sum of money - That your fellow country-men are less hard-working than others - Or that your performance is scrutinized more than it may have been in the past. As a 4th/5th generation Aussie, I can assure you that in a previous job at a local university, the hardest workers were all in from families that had been here for less time than mine, the majority coming from India or Sri-Lanka. They were the least likely to goof-off if they had 'spare' time when there was a process that could be improved, and the most likely to be what I considered bright. They were incidentally, the most friendly and family-oriented people too. Sure, my sample-size was tiny - there were only 300 of us that I had regular/semi-regular contact with. But I'd work with 'imports' every day of the week if I could, much sooner than 'locals'. Complacency is the enemy of the successful. :)

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                                    Ranjan D
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                                    Well said. I really appreciate your points. One thing to understand here is, if there are so called skilled developers who are so extensive in US why would they wish to sponsor visa and get developers from other countries :laugh: Thanks,

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                                    • J JimmyRopes

                                      Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                                      What's an american name?

                                      White Eagle Running Bear Crazy Horse Geronimo Little Turtle Sitting Bull Abooksigun Abukcheech Akule Chochmingwu Choviohoya Kokyangwuti Naalnish Naalyehe ya sidahi Kohkahycumest Nahiossi And my favorite Kuwanyamtiwa - Beautiful badger going over the hill (Hopi) Names like that. :-D

                                      The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
                                      Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
                                      Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
                                      I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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                                      Vivi Chellappa
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                                      JimmyRopes wrote:

                                      Chochmingwu

                                      Choch Ming Wu is Chinese!

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                                      • C CHill60

                                        The reason for the fewer numbers in the UK is because all of the work has been shipped out to India! ;)

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                                        Vivi Chellappa
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                                        Nope. The level of racism is far higher in the UK. I know an Indian girl with a Master's degree from Penn State University who couldn't get a job as a coder in the UK while high school graduates were being hired for coding positions. PS. If she had stayed in the US, she would have found a job. She married and had to move to the UK to be with her husband.

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                                        • J jeron1

                                          Considering his description of some of his massive fecal deposits, I believe his name was "Little Bear That Dams The Stream". ;P

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                                          Vivi Chellappa
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                                          He is no beaver! ;P

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