Comment by vikascoder | Hacker News Reader

Comment by vikascoder | Hacker News Reader

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Another Indian guy here. Can we limit the broad paint brushes here and realize that the circle of developers you may have exposed to is solely your experience? I think you are leaning on to some assumption that other "Indian" developers are like this. Well if you are located in India you can say the same thing for "all" professions right? And whose fault is it that mostly all the developers you come across seem to you like feet daggers? Maybe you can work in a better company than you are in where you actually see great developers? It just grates on my senses when someone just paints a whole section of people with one huge ill informed paint brush. I am sure you have your reasons but also realize that you haven't met a huge amount of people to make that assumption, or have interacted with people in other great places to work or there are vast number of great Indian engineering talent working in a lot of countries. An ill informed opinion only makes the quality of information degrade on this forum. And seriously unless you are a Nobel prize winner yourself there is no point in judging others.

>"And seriously unless you are a Nobel prize winner yourself there is no point in judging others."

I didn't see the OP was judging anyone but describing a type they perceived was only interested in development as a stepping stone to something else.

In fact you yourself seem to be completely judgmental and also condescending telling someone:

>" ... you haven't met a huge amount of people to make that assumption, or have interacted with people in other great places to work"

You seem to have no issue passing your own judgement however by telling someone that their opinion is "degrading this forum." That's a pretty rotten thing to say.

I think vikascoder makes a really good point, actually. The fact that the poster was Indian was entirely irrelevant except in the context of stereotyping all the "other" Indian programmers. I found the post offensive on behalf of anyone who is tired of lazily getting lumped into any group. Despite not being an Indian programmer.

Apologies. I'm not judging anyone here. My implication was more "different strokes for different folks". Some people like to take work home, others prefer to have a drink in the evenings. Some manage to combine both :-) I'm just suggesting that priorities differ.

But for the sake of argument, while I don't deny that India has some star developers, I think it's incorrect to suggest that there isn't a huge section in it for reasons _other_ than a pure love of computers. Many do it because they need the money, or need a stopgap before they go on to do other things etc. I stand by what I said.

Finally, I'm not sure why you're implying that maybe _I'm_ a feet dragger and that I need to work on improving the company I keep. I thought my comment was fairly mild and inoffensive.

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