Offshore programmers work off US coast. Legally

The Asia Times reports that programmers are very very important people indeed, which of course is a platitude.

According to its report, Sea Code has bought an ocean liner registered in the Bahamas, and will outsource coding services just on the brink of USA Maritime limits. Nothing illegal about that.

The highly outsourced programmers, or developers as we're supposed to call them now we're in the 21st Century, can view the United States with envy, offshore.

But with presumably endless supplies of free alcohol, none of them need to worry about the fractious H1-B visa, which has, rather mysteriously, become hard to obtain.