It is a weird American custom in which asking speakers difficult questions is considered “giving them a hard time,” and I am apparently famous for doing so. At nearly every meetup for event-based, nonblocking, asynchronous programming toolkits such as Node.js and Akka, I ask one question that goes something like, “Have you ever used this on a large team with differing skill levels and gotten the less skilled developers to use it correctly?”
There are two concurrent movements going on in our industry:
One is an attempt to cheapen labor by going to “low-cost countries” and using various schemes to skirt temporary-worker wage regulations.
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