how do companies evaluate countries which are better for outsourcing

Global Services Location Index (GSLI)

This Index tracks the contours of the offshoring landscape in 50 countries across four major categories: financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, business environment, and the new digital resonance category explained in figure 1. It assesses countries' capacity to deliver BPO and ITO services based on 44 different metrics (see Appendix: About the study). 

One of the newly added items in it in addition to standard parameters associated with traditional IT outsourcing like financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, legal and cybersecurity environment is one of the key factors to account in decision making

https://www.kearney.com/digital-transformation/gsli/2019-full-report

10x engineer

They studied professional programmers with an average of 7 years experience and found that the ratio of initial coding time between the best and worst programmers was about 20 to 1; the ratio of debugging times over 25 to 1; of program size 5 to 1; and of program execution speed about 10 to 1. They found no relationship between a programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity.

– Steve McConnell, Productivity Variations Among Developers and Teams: The Origin of 10x

Chalk it out

Mathematics has a craft aspect, especially in lectures. A good mathematics auditorium has six blackboards. A good lecturer can fill them one at a time, systematically, so at the end there's a whole panorama of what happened. With slide talks, you think your own thought for a minute you're dead. Because it's gone.

Prof. David Eisenbud

Solving Allocation for everything on-demand

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190606-the-maths-problem-that-modern-life-depends-on

Reasons why JPA and Hibernate should be phased out

https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/5nz5nq/reasons_jpa_and_hibernate_should_be_phased_out/

Abstraction

Abstractions should generally fit the common-sense use-cases and "just work".

- MasterLJ

Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests starting September 30th, 2020

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=6776