The church is the corporation of religion, using religion to bend the will of man and keep power. I know it sound harsh, but I spend a lot of time in the Philippines where the church has way to much power and people suffer because of it, contraception, sexual education, divorce etc. Families do it tough here, but some dude at the front of an alter decides a lot of the rules.
However on the other hand even though I am not religious myself, I see nothing wrong with faith. Especially faith which someone challenges themselves.
My point of view with this is that it is more of a problem with government rather than a problem with the wealthy. If a government is bought off by the rich, it isn't a government for the people in the beginning to start off with.
> It's not like employers are keen on training anywhere else in the US either.
Although I do not live in the US, I gather that like many countries I have lived in is the view is that training is no longer such a large responsibility of the employer and is rather costly.
However in my travels and work in Asia, there is a concept of bonding in many countries where an employee is offered a job and training and in return agrees to work for a company for X amount of time or pays the employer. This reduces the overhead in regards to the cost of training.
They bought a massive customer base in developing countries, and they manage to secure all of those users who use a messaging app without probably doing any deals with any telcos.
Not only that, they gained a potential advantage in the payments space. Potentially turning their users into being able to make payments within the facebook & partners networks.
Look at what is happening in China with companies turning their chat apps into taxi booking apps like WeChat.
The majority of these points relate to all outsourcing development whether if it's onshore or offshore. In fact it applies for in house development.
Cheaper does not mean bad code and bad practices, and more expensive does not mean better code and better practices. The simple fact is that someone has to take responsibility and implement stuff right.
> 1. It’s extremely difficult to judge the quality of outsourced work without your own local engineer
It can be difficult measure any quality if you do not have the knowledge to do it. As this article is aimed at the "non-tech" founder, I have to question how that person would know good quality code or bad quality code without a technical advisor.
> 2. Prepare to work some odd hours and deal with communication issues
Some outsourcing companies work the hours of the client. If not then planning just needs to be done to organise communication. Even in the US (I am not in the US), there are different time zones which need to be compensated for.
However I do realise a 12 hour difference can be difficult.
> 3. Things will get lost when you transition to a permanent local team
Bring on any new developer to an established codebase and they are going to need time to catch up.
> 4. Each feature can become a line item in your technical debt
This point does not even make sense. Technical debt is not related to offshoring it is related to poor design and implementation.
> 5. Hiring and retaining local engineers could be more difficult
Well this might be true, but then again it would probably be true of any bad codebase whether developed in house or outsourced. I am sure there are in-house projects with massive God Objects also.
> so I can't see advertisers being too interested with "targeted" advertising being so current
Gary Vaynerchuck had an interesting point in one of his many many interviews. Basically SnapChat is instant focus, you cannot see an ad and file it away for later, you must act on it before it disappears. That functionality may be important to some advertisers.
Me I joined SnapChat and have never received one naked selfie so I never use the app. I guess that use for it created a lot of the user base. I do not know how much I would value the app because of that and how scalable their user base is, and their tech is easily replicated.
> this is ridiculous. from what I read the "harm" that happened was really the fact that it was prominently placed in the search engines, which the blogger really had no direct control over.
If you do a google search and "the place to avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino", it would not matter if it was 1st or 21st, and that seems to match the judgement. Ms Doudet makes the claim in regards to the search rank.
Reading the pastebin text, it seems a little petty and most of all a bit of a big emotional rant.
So the author does not agree with the valuation, many people do not agree with valuations of companies, in fact companies which lose money in some situations still have high evaluations as the valuation is market driven in some cases.
People getting fired, well that happens all the time. Lawsuits happen to companies, HR not getting fired happens, companies hiring for growth happens.
The problem with the author is the way they have stated their case, there is common problems framed with insinuating remarks which are further compounded by a use of profanity. Not to say if the post is true or not, but the author could have done a great deal better to establish credibility.
> You wouldn't do 24x7 with 3 people, but you could do 24 hours x ~5.5 days with the rest on call.
Thanks, I hope I didn't sound too harsh as I just wanted to understand how you were doing this.
> You hire them as self employed contractors.
If you are an Australian company you may want to be careful with this. A contractor is not necessarily a contractor in Australia, there are some strange guidelines as to when a contractor may actually become an employee.
> A lot of people will take the opportunity to do this kind of work for a decent wage ($65k in Brisbane, $55k in regional centres).
I worked in Brisbane for 12 years and that sounds about right. Although the need for Linux admins seems to be increasing so there is some interesting salaries being offered.
> I know people who do this work, move to Thailand and live in luxury on similar dollars.
One can only dream, although I now live and travel around Asia .... I am just missing the $$$ :)
> Once you can afford 3 people this can become a very effective way of ensuring 24 hour coverage.
How can you run 24/7 with 3 people ? In Australia that would mean you would have to be above the allowed 38 hour working week as it would be a 56 hour working week, overtime and possibly penalty rates would apply. Even if it is on call a lot of companies in Australia pay extra for that.
> Not to mention rates for a lot of those countries are cheaper then FTE's in the US
I do not know who you are employing in Australia but I would suggest that there is only about 5000 - 10000 USD p/a price difference for mid-level guys.
However on the other hand even though I am not religious myself, I see nothing wrong with faith. Especially faith which someone challenges themselves.