************* this is a post from experience, follow fatrat's post, this guy knows what he's talking about******** I use to run a software programming company, that offloads to offshores, to russia, china, india, ukrainians/romanians/ best programmers who speak english indians are ok , lot of lazies chinese, alright, but not good in communication re-read fatrat's post and follow it step by step, that is how you get good programmers.
I hired some extremely taleneted programmers for around $5-10 a hour. I use to , and still can contract out to some assembly , C++ wiz dood in russia for around $2500 full time, $1250 4 hours a day a work. These guys can code anything in your possible mind you just need to find the right people with the right motivation, A US programmer won't be motivated if he can make $4k, and you pay him $3k but a Russsian programmer, a skilled one, who's base pay in russia is $1k, and you pay him $2.5k , thats 2.5x his normal pay. He'll bust ass for you , Its all about motivation for jobs.
The best and last advice I can give is learn easylanguage by tr4destation Its called easy language for a reason, its like coding for idiots, I use to be a programming manager , but I could only code stupid shit, but with easylanguage even stupid shit can work there. With easylanaguage you can tweak your heart out, for harder codes, get a programmer to tweak it in easylanaguage for you. Easylanguage= can be learned within 1-2 weeks. -------- The best part about easylanguage, is they have the base code already programmed, which is the sending orders, recieving orders, stop limit orders, back testing, enviroment for you to code in. If you coded this from C++ from base up, its like re-inventing the wheel.
We pay something like 3.5K after taxes, which makes ~4-5K before taxes... and this is in St.Petersburg, not in Moscow... and you should rather think about EUR since USD is a joke these days... I am afraid you should look somewhere else with your $1K
I program my own. Depends on how complex the strategy is. I've written some in a few minutes - others took days worth of work. Some programs you can find already done and free to download off certain automated trading sights.
Jerry, you have to chill a bit regarding Moscow/Pravda/SovietUnion etc. and remove RedHats geographical location out of your argument. Here are some facts regarding Moscow where RedHat is from: There is a lot of money in Moscow (due to oil and gas). Many western investment banks, IT companies etc. etc. have offices there. For example, Deutsche Bank has a development center with 400+ developers, so does Google. Most of the management is either western or with top western experience/education. So the culture and processes in many places are no different then in the west/US.
Well, he claims to know more about how commercial programming works in the US than I do, when if fact he understands nothing about it. If it's not a cultural defect in perspective then perhaps it's just a personal one on his part (the need to maintain you know about something when you are ignorant) He asked what I knew about the USSR so I told him. What is your issue with that?
Show me my post where I told about "commercial programming in US" or that I know more. What I wrote is that you need to have the detailed project plan or specs to start custom programming project. Else you can end that your customer continually changing his requirements. As for US I refer Ed Sallivan http://www.amazon.com/Under-Pressur...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206961619&sr=8-3 I am 100% sure he has very good experience in management of IT projects. I worked in one organisation where we had similar conditions, strict project plan with multiple milestones. We did not have time to introduce new 'creative' ideas because else we will fail the project itself.
Do you know where was Japanese population of US during the WW2? Most democratic country, lol. Are you stand for bringing democracy to Islamic country, like Iraq? Study your history, vote for GWB.
All you can do I quote someone, I've worked in US IT for 30 years. OF course you know more about that's done in various circumstances here than I do because you are psychic...right?