[rescue] "Mind-numbing digital toil"

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 02:19 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>    Indeed.  I'm in the process of writing a letter to the editor of
>> BusinessWeek.  I read an article not too long ago that had me so mad I
>> was seeing red for most of the rest of the day.  The columnist was
>> discussing moving things like software development to offshore (can we
>> say the giant bad-software-sweatshop known as India?)...referring to
>> software development as (get ready for this):
>>
>>    "Mind-numbing digital toil"
>
>
> Come on Dave, don't tell me you can't appreciate how much brute force
> effort goes into programing these days. After all, you can't write
> something "smart" to seperate out "account at NOSPAM.someisp.net" from
> a real email address and fix it. :-)

   *grumble*

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