Okay, so countries other than the USA have some technical programming chops, but it's not good enough when you think about what this means overall. Their technical skills might be superior but unless they apply them somewhere other than malware and security attacks then they really don't have anything useful. What I mean is if there are such talented programmers around the world then where are the innovative uses of their skills? Where are the advanced operating systems, superior data storage technologies or even just a mildly killer web site/app? As usual in technology it's not the technical skills that mean the most it's how they are applied and what you accomplish with them. Maybe American coders aren't up to snuff on algorithms as much as China or Russia but what are those countries actually doing with their skills besides getting H1B visas to come to the USA and work for American countries? Results matter more than simply being good at something on paper.
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0 u/Morbo 06 Sep 2016 12:13
Okay, so countries other than the USA have some technical programming chops, but it's not good enough when you think about what this means overall. Their technical skills might be superior but unless they apply them somewhere other than malware and security attacks then they really don't have anything useful. What I mean is if there are such talented programmers around the world then where are the innovative uses of their skills? Where are the advanced operating systems, superior data storage technologies or even just a mildly killer web site/app? As usual in technology it's not the technical skills that mean the most it's how they are applied and what you accomplish with them. Maybe American coders aren't up to snuff on algorithms as much as China or Russia but what are those countries actually doing with their skills besides getting H1B visas to come to the USA and work for American countries? Results matter more than simply being good at something on paper.