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null | ZedOud | null | That type of job security can't be produced by an outsourcing company: you can just drop their work and redo it if your company is competent enough to catch it early. A couple competent company attempting outsourcing would be in contact with multiple outsourcing firms. | null | 0 | 1492729250 | False | 0 | dgjczcc | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbzku | null | 1494243285 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | drecklia | null | Speaking of trends, it is very easy to tell when is midterms or finals season. The site is littered with the same questions, and many blatantly do a copy and paste without showing effort. | null | 0 | 1492729250 | False | 0 | dgjczcm | t3_66ah7w | null | null | t3_66ah7w | null | 1494243285 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smgtmn | null | Genuine question for fellow programmers here. This is something that has been bothering me for some time now.
I am a software engineer who grew up in India and considers himself somewhat competent at software engineering. What can I do to convince people that I do not fall in the category this article highlights?
If ... | null | 0 | 1492729278 | False | 0 | dgjd040 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243295 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | I only went to Edinburgh but I ate wonderfully there tbh. | null | 0 | 1492729364 | False | 0 | dgjd2hz | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjaamv | null | 1494243330 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492729367 | False | 0 | dgjd2kz | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494243331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | onimushalord | null | Only after I've performed my software updation. | null | 0 | 1492729452 | False | 0 | dgjd508 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc202 | null | 1494243363 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Genie_ | null | My prof did the same shit move to our class too, this is the first i'm hearing of it even being a thing, i thought he just felt particularly vindictive that day | null | 0 | 1492729459 | False | 0 | dgjd57p | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgja80u | null | 1494243366 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsimmons | null | Yeah, my experience as well. I've worked with some great guys but if anything is unclear, it's not good. No questions asked, nothing. And if a requirement is clearly wrong and has been missed, it'll get implemented as written with no "are you sure?" | null | 0 | 1492729492 | False | 0 | dgjd64p | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9dkh | null | 1494243378 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | danm72 | null | I'd only be sceptical of remote workers. If you're in the country and have a solid resume there's no problem. | null | 0 | 1492729497 | False | 0 | dgjd6a0 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjd040 | null | 1494243380 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BigTunaTim | null | No one is suggesting that it's some kind of inherent trait in the Indian race, and anyone who is can go fuck themselves. This is entirely a cultural issue. A person of Indian descent who has survived US secondary schooling has likely learned the cultural traits and won't suffer the problems that are mentioned. | null | 0 | 1492729511 | False | 0 | dgjd6o9 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcryy | null | 1494243386 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ericgj | null | Thanks for this crucial context. How horrible! All the racist theorizing posted here and the whole thing is based on lies and crass exploitation. Timed to make Trump's case, clearly. | null | 1 | 1492729517 | False | 0 | dgjd6tp | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9pid | null | 1494243388 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | koipolloi | null | And those who can't teach... teach gym. | null | 0 | 1492729598 | False | 0 | dgjd92a | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc62l | null | 1494243417 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Yamakaky | null | 404 | null | 0 | 1492729606 | False | 0 | dgjd9au | t3_66jn2w | null | null | t3_66jn2w | null | 1494243420 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsimmons | null | I use this with my wife and just get blank stares. It's great. | null | 0 | 1492729639 | False | 0 | dgjda5w | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc202 | null | 1494243432 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sarg338 | null | > I kid you not I got 99% percent for an exam cos I missed one semi colon.
Congrats, you're part of the statistic that can't write code that compiles! %s | null | 0 | 1492729648 | False | 0 | dgjdaep | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcrm9 | null | 1494243435 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | onionhammer | null | That character was in the list after the colon | null | 0 | 1492729686 | False | 0 | dgjdbfw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjat7e | null | 1494243449 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Protuhj | null | You don't bring one with you to interviews? *Amateur.* | null | 0 | 1492729693 | False | 0 | dgjdbmj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc2yi | null | 1494243451 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsimmons | null | Aye. I've rewritten large parts of applications that didn't have a thing to do with what I was working on because it just needed to be... better. | null | 0 | 1492729710 | False | 0 | dgjdc2e | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcr1w | null | 1494243457 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Protuhj | null | /r/Delightfullychubby | null | 0 | 1492729717 | False | 0 | dgjdc8p | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcqzp | null | 1494243459 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Neophyte- | null | yep, its excellent for typescript, i do all my JS in typescript now. If you dev typescript in vs code, then i recommend hiding the js and ts.map extensions. makes the solution much cleaner | null | 0 | 1492729730 | False | 0 | dgjdcmu | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjaxoz | null | 1494243465 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bardwick | null | I'm convinced that they fake phone interviews.
We interviewed a women for a fairly senior IT position. She could only do remote interview because she was in a different state.
We ran through the basics, then some pretty advanced stuff and she nailed it. Very impressive. We called her contract company and gav... | null | 0 | 1492729761 | False | 0 | dgjddhh | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243476 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | It can be about what users talk about. If users hate it, they can downvote.
Locking popular threads is crap. You are directly doing the opposite of what the community wants. | null | 0 | 1492729782 | False | 0 | dgjde2x | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc1f9 | null | 1494243484 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FortunePaw | null | *gets on the floor* | null | 0 | 1492729795 | False | 0 | dgjdefh | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj97fv | null | 1494243488 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Logseman | null | /r/frugal_jerk | null | 0 | 1492729839 | False | 0 | dgjdfmo | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcqzp | null | 1494243504 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bmwnut | null | I'm certainly not positing that it's a racial construct. There are good schools in India with what I assume are good CS programs that result in the same dedicated, intelligent, and skilled folks that I work with here in the US. I'm just curious if the person I replied to has worked with Indians in the US and how they c... | null | 1 | 1492729900 | False | 0 | dgjdhbv | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjd6o9 | null | 1494243527 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hjklvim | null | Didn't know about `C-s` being used for control flow. Thanks! Doesn't `C-g` cancel a command in emacs? How do you handle it?
I should try Spacemacs one day, but honestly I've never tried so far because I was afraid that it would be a Frankeinstein' s monster, not being a complete emacs neither vim environment. Do you h... | null | 0 | 1492729921 | 1492730250 | 0 | dgjdhw8 | t3_66b2iu | null | null | t1_dgi3p2f | null | 1494243534 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Xaltonon | null | *everybody walk the dinosaur* | null | 0 | 1492729930 | False | 0 | dgjdi5v | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdefh | null | 1494243539 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | Wow that's pretty fantastic! | null | 0 | 1492729941 | False | 0 | dgjdih0 | t3_66isie | null | null | t1_dgjcq34 | null | 1494243543 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492729945 | False | 0 | dgjdiky | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj95e9 | null | 1494243544 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Okichah | null | Not according to every interview i go on. Its like preparing for Jeopardy. Except my livelihood depends on it. | null | 0 | 1492729953 | False | 0 | dgjdit6 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7my3 | null | 1494243547 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hardolaf | null | That sounds like real engineering! | null | 0 | 1492730008 | False | 0 | dgjdkbk | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgja80u | null | 1494243568 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kewleus | null | Who doesn't put a space before their listed items after a colon? If it were a double space I'd give it to ya. | null | 0 | 1492730024 | False | 0 | dgjdksa | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdbfw | null | 1494243574 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NiteLite | null | Oh man ... newFormatTimeDateFinal( month, [year], [dayOfWeek], [dayOfMonth] ) I am sure... | null | 0 | 1492730026 | False | 0 | dgjdkue | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbkqz | null | 1494243575 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Felshatner | null | Yeah, you can usually tell when they don't understand but say yes anyway. I keep track of that stuff as something to bring up or clarify later. It's usually more successful in chat than in voice in my experience. Most of the folks from India I have worked with are pretty sharp, especially the on-shore ones, but the tu... | null | 0 | 1492730039 | False | 0 | dgjdl64 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9dkh | null | 1494243579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rjcarr | null | A few years back I had a bunch of work done on my new (to me) house. A bunch of the workers were russian and every one I talked to had some sort of engineering masters degree from russia (mechanical was the most common from what I remember). But they're in the US laying hardwood flooring, tile, or carpet.
I'll assum... | null | 0 | 1492730076 | False | 0 | dgjdm8n | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7uxl | null | 1494243594 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | maninbonita | null | I have a test. If your programmer says he can't find the code on google and says he can't build what you want, he's not a programmer.
I got so mad at that guy. What do you expect for $5 an hour? | null | 1 | 1492730113 | False | 0 | dgjdn95 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6ssi | null | 1494243607 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CarthOSassy | null | Sorry my man, you used quote operators. | null | 0 | 1492730201 | False | 0 | dgjdpqf | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbot6 | null | 1494243640 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SwoopsFromAbove | null | Never actually worked with an Indian shop, but I did get a different perspective on it when I visited the country last year. There's a lot of stuff in this thread about how developers from India have a skill gap, or have "learned it by rote" etc., and I thought some perspective would help.
In Delhi I happened to stumb... | null | 0 | 1492730234 | False | 0 | dgjdqnw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ericgj | null | It would be great to know details about:
"Got the college authorities to force us to take the test. It was as simple as "take this test or we'll make life miserable for you in other ways".
| null | 0 | 1492730260 | False | 0 | dgjdrea | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9pid | null | 1494243662 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jcotton42 | null | FWIW Edge's engine is EdgeHTML, not Trident | null | 0 | 1492730268 | False | 0 | dgjdrme | t3_66d6g1 | null | null | t1_dgiiawv | null | 1494243665 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | perfectly_cr0mulent | null | I have had a similar experience. Being aware of the cultural differences is really important and very difficult to wrap your head around initially. I have memories from my first job of writing such verbose instructions that if I had sent them to any of my local teammates they would have been offended. Because otherwise... | null | 0 | 1492730300 | False | 0 | dgjdsgh | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8ob4 | null | 1494243676 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | iamrob15 | null | Nice | null | 0 | 1492730327 | False | 0 | dgjdt6x | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243686 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JBlitzen | null | Well said, both you and the parent commenter.
It's basically the perfect storm of /r/notmyjob and /r/thereifixedit.
And if an American software engineer demonstrated anywhere near the same level of intransigence and incompetence, they would be fired instantly.
Breathtaking that anybody falls for it, but stupidity is... | null | 0 | 1492730402 | False | 0 | dgjdv5t | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9dkh | null | 1494243712 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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\#2: [I cleaned the... | null | 0 | 1492730411 | False | 0 | dgjdvdv | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdv5t | null | 1494243715 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CSharpReallySucks | null | \- Harry, you're a derived unit of power.
- I'm a Watt? | null | 0 | 1492730446 | False | 0 | dgjdwb7 | t3_66ah7w | null | null | t1_dgil2bg | null | 1494243727 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RabbidKitten | null | > That's the same thing! The type tag points to a vtable.
You're not thinking abstractly enough ; ) For sum types, it points to a vtable only in languages that do not support them natively. You can stretch it how you want, sum types are not equivalent to virtual dispatch.
The closed vs. open distinction I mentione... | null | 0 | 1492730454 | False | 0 | dgjdwje | t3_6631x8 | null | null | t1_dgi4me0 | null | 1494243731 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | A child class can easily ruin the encapsulation of your parent class, unless that parent class has been specifically designed for inheritance. And designing a class for inheritance means things like:
- Make as many of the properties and methods private, not protected. If they're protected, they're as good as public, a... | null | 0 | 1492730468 | False | 0 | dgjdwxe | t3_66gnib | null | null | t3_66gnib | null | 1494243736 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | Sure, I use Clojure precisely because I find it to be both powerful and simple. However, my experiences with Scala have convinced me that it's a rather complex language. So, my point isn't that power and simplicity are at odds, but rather that there is value in Java being a simpler language than Scala. | null | 0 | 1492730486 | 1492730791 | 0 | dgjdxdq | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj8zzh | null | 1494243742 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Bobshayd | null | If the school could teach you not to pull out Reddit every minute, they would, and it would probably make your life better, so why would the same argument not apply to using a calculator as a crutch? | null | 0 | 1492730490 | False | 0 | dgjdxhs | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbbec | null | 1494243744 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BigTunaTim | null | Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were making it racial, I just wanted to make the point to anyone reading this that it's a cultural issue. I've encountered more than a few people in my career who were unclear on that distinction so I wanted to reiterate it.
I have never worked with an Indian-born US-educated per... | null | 0 | 1492730490 | False | 0 | dgjdxi9 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdhbv | null | 1494243744 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JBlitzen | null | I worked with a pretty good H1B once upon a time.
There are good ones. I think the problem is that the places looking for H1B's aren't generally looking for the good ones. | null | 0 | 1492730521 | False | 0 | dgjdydc | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbnkt | null | 1494243756 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coloroftheskye | null | so basically for nothing then, ok got it. | null | 0 | 1492730579 | False | 0 | dgjdzyf | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcz42 | null | 1494243776 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thearn4 | null | Sorry, there is a general racist feel to this topic that always seems to come through when it comes to outsourcing, and it sucks to see it.
But the truth is that as long as it is clear that you are truly curious about the discipline itself and not just turning a crank for a paycheck, that makes a huge difference. | null | 0 | 1492730615 | False | 0 | dgje0xw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjd040 | null | 1494243790 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | parag0n | null | Some of this is true, but honestly it varies based on the person. I've worked with some brilliant H1-Bs and offshore people as well. American software devs can be just as fucking annoying to deal with. A lot of them hide behind jargon and buzzwords and don't know what the fuck they are doing. Some masturbate to the sou... | null | 0 | 1492730617 | False | 0 | dgje0ze | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8ob4 | null | 1494243791 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sylvester_Scott | null | Boom...boom... | null | 0 | 1492730626 | False | 0 | dgje17t | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdi5v | null | 1494243794 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | infinity404 | null | https://xkcd.com/378/ | null | 0 | 1492730658 | False | 0 | dgje247 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjba9f | null | 1494243805 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | geeky_username | null | Not punch cards? | null | 0 | 1492730701 | False | 0 | dgje398 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjba9f | null | 1494243821 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | That's really an uninteresting reason if you ask me. It's powerful enough to make interesting things that are accessible, and you could introduce restrictions like [1k Js](http://js1k.com/) if you wanted to. | null | 1 | 1492730716 | False | 0 | dgje3nt | t3_66isie | null | null | t1_dgj9mr6 | null | 1494243826 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Szos | null | Surprised it's not closer to 100% | null | 0 | 1492730753 | False | 0 | dgje4n1 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243839 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | name_censored_ | null | > In PHP it stands for millions of years as in M = roman numeral for 1000 therefore MM is one thousand thousand.
Nah, it stands for **m**any **m**oments.
^^The ^^exact ^^length ^^of ^^a ^^moment ^^and ^^the ^^precise ^^quantity ^^of ^^"many" ^^is ^^undefined. | null | 0 | 1492730759 | False | 0 | dgje4t9 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbr3i | null | 1494243841 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | agonnaz | null | I don't mean in concept, I mean in practice in the US, most extreme left-wingers push toward a very large state with tons of social services and government-imposed restrictions. Most extreme right-wingers either push for the same but with no social services and giant corporations instead of a giant state.
The liberta... | null | 0 | 1492730797 | False | 0 | dgje5t6 | t3_65free | null | null | t1_dgjctyl | null | 1494243854 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GamingForNoReason | null | I thought this was pretty much understood, isn't there a stereotype that most Indians in any professional job fake their credentials and lie about their skills? I'm pretty sure they even made fun of it on the Simpsons as well. | null | 0 | 1492730827 | False | 0 | dgje6n8 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243866 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hardolaf | null | I had an Indian rep assigned to my last case with $VENDOR. He sucked ass. Couldn't figure out how to run a Python script. The time before that with the same $VENDOR getting support for a different issue, I got an Indian rep who could read our FPGA's bitstream and debug issues in the generated bitstream without a progra... | null | 0 | 1492730834 | False | 0 | dgje6tw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9tc8 | null | 1494243869 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | You think understanding the tools you use is nothing?
I bet you're the type that just slaps shit together and hopes it works. How many n+1 queries are there in your apps? | null | 0 | 1492730845 | False | 0 | dgje759 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdzyf | null | 1494243873 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | Ideally you only need interfaces for classes which are public and part of a reusable library. Any other class would either not need to be mocked, or you're in control of the source, and you don't need to make it final in the first place.
And so in a well-designed library you can have interfaces for everything you'd li... | null | 0 | 1492730875 | False | 0 | dgje802 | t3_66gnib | null | null | t1_dgj2ynk | null | 1494243884 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | makemeking706 | null | > And those who can't teach
become administrators. FTFY | null | 0 | 1492730878 | False | 0 | dgje82o | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjd92a | null | 1494243885 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | > And in an ideal world that is great but often times we must use external libraries which don't have perfect design
That's when you write a facade, and then mock the facade. You should write a facade for most external libraries anyway. Saves a lot of trouble down the line. | null | 0 | 1492730944 | False | 0 | dgje9xt | t3_66gnib | null | null | t1_dgik3s9 | null | 1494243910 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coloroftheskye | null | Intellisense is such a low hanging fruit. Just knowing a few class and method names doesn't make you a better programming by even a single percent worse actually since you have to keep spending time on looking up types or the time you actually don't know the exact name. If you really believe disabling intellisense make... | null | 0 | 1492730956 | False | 0 | dgjea9i | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgje759 | null | 1494243914 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | princeofpudding | null | > That was almost 20 years ago and I still haven't had a positive experience with either offshoring or with H1B's
I've had a few, but not too many. I have a couple of friends that are H1B and are amazing developers, but they seem to be such a small minority that it's kind of depressing... | null | 0 | 1492730969 | False | 0 | dgjeamm | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbnkt | null | 1494243919 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sparkbusiness | null | I guess those are the Trump supporters who can see past the lies and understand what Trump and the GOP will actually do. | null | 0 | 1492730979 | False | 0 | dgjeaw3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjb0xl | null | 1494243922 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Jigsus | null | Depends on how closely you collaborate. I mean really do you expect them to care and correct your design document when you are paying them $5/hour? | null | 0 | 1492730984 | False | 0 | dgjeb1z | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcr1w | null | 1494243924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | icbmike_for_realz | null | I recently started iOS too, and I'm amazed by how annoyingly complicated/manual some tasks are compared to Android.
For example using a scroll view with constraints seems retarded in comparison to Android.
I can't find many people online who mention having the same problems, so there must be something about iOS deve... | null | 0 | 1492730986 | False | 0 | dgjeb3z | t3_66a8nk | null | null | t1_dghx1hv | null | 1494243925 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | throwawaybigsothrowa | null | Dude I work with is Indian, claims he has a MS in comp sci from India. I told me they beat him with sticks when he was wrong in class and doesn't know what a function is. | null | 0 | 1492731029 | 1492731297 | 0 | dgjecar | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243941 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ericgj | null | The psych test to weed out extroverts etc is a throwback to what tech industry did in the 50's and 60's in the US. To prevent a challenge to management. Which had the effect of reducing numbers of women in industry. Documented in _The Computer Boys Take Over_. http://thecomputerboys.com/ | null | 0 | 1492731035 | False | 0 | dgjecgl | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc1n4 | null | 1494243944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JBlitzen | null | There are two separate factors:
1. Indian workplace and social cultures really enforce these problematic traits, and
2. The stupid companies and middle managers who seek out H1B's aren't looking for the cream of the crop; they're looking for the cheap losers.
And those factors reinforce one another in a feedback loo... | null | 0 | 1492731058 | False | 0 | dgjed4k | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcryy | null | 1494243953 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | Because I'm not a calculator. Quick, tell me what's 9752 * 1753 / 7512, round it to 16 digits of precision?
Too late, my calculator got it. My life's awesome. | null | 0 | 1492731059 | False | 0 | dgjed5f | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdxhs | null | 1494243953 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sstewartgallus | null | The visitor pattern is a bit nicer with functional interfaces and lambda expressions. IMO the biggest problem is the inability to throw exceptions through or break out of the lambda functions and the lack of tail call recursion.
Something like the following would be nice. As I recall ML can actually do something simil... | null | 0 | 1492731108 | False | 0 | dgjeei2 | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t3_66gn8p | null | 1494243971 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Bobshayd | null | Basic arithmetic is like, pulling out your calculator to multiply single-digit numbers. It's embarrassing. You know what else is embarrassing? You not having the intellectual maturity to not use a strawman like that. | null | 0 | 1492731132 | False | 0 | dgjef6s | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjed5f | null | 1494243980 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MizchiefKilz | null | > India teams will not do "best effort". If one thing is unclear in a list of items they will do nothing all day. That's because if they misinterpret something they did not understand they get blamed for comprehension issues. If they just do nothing all day and ask you to clarify then it's your issue for not being s... | null | 0 | 1492731143 | False | 0 | dgjefhs | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8ob4 | null | 1494243984 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bmwnut | null | The dichotomy here is interesting to me. Next time I'm in an appropriate situation outside work I'll have to ask about this. I've known that I'm fortunate to work with the people I work with - perhaps I didn't know how fortunate. | null | 0 | 1492731156 | False | 0 | dgjefuf | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdxi9 | null | 1494243989 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | speedisavirus | null | Based on my experience taking over off shore projects, having companies trying to supplement us with them, and interviewing people from H1B farms this is painfully obvious. They are either not teaching them shit in schools there, lying about education, or they are able to buy degrees. | null | 0 | 1492731167 | False | 0 | dgjeg53 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494243994 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TwaddleToast | null | I used to be a "things are going well" no matter how they were going guy, mostly because no one want to listen to someone else bitch and moan about things.
Recently I've begun being the "No, sorry $CTO I don't have time to talk about that right now because half the team called off" guy. Some how I didn't realize it w... | null | 0 | 1492731231 | False | 0 | dgjehxj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcx26 | null | 1494244017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flukus | null | What's stopping them now? It isn't H1Bs. | null | 0 | 1492731242 | False | 0 | dgjei8z | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8y4i | null | 1494244022 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheCocksmith | null | Serious question: My understanding of the Indian education system is that there is an extremely heavy emphasis on rote memorization, rather than application of knowledge, so that their students can pass all standardized tests, anywhere in the world. My dad confirmed that this used to be the case back when he was scho... | null | 0 | 1492731248 | False | 0 | dgjeiey | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj9pid | null | 1494244024 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | daymanAAaah | null | Fair enough, I did have to do some work with a scroll view in iOS recently and I agree, it was stupid. I was trying to paginate the scrollview and it was having some weird constraints issue where the view changed size and the pagination moved. Lots of bs boilerplate to make something that should be much easier. | null | 0 | 1492731259 | False | 0 | dgjeip5 | t3_66a8nk | null | null | t1_dgjeb3z | null | 1494244028 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | speedisavirus | null | That's a very valid question in a test in cpu architecture. Could I do it now? Yeah, maybe, but I'd struggle. | null | 0 | 1492731300 | False | 0 | dgjejsj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgja80u | null | 1494244043 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AeroNotix | null | Water still wet. | null | 0 | 1492731308 | False | 0 | dgjejzm | t3_66hnpk | null | null | t3_66hnpk | null | 1494244045 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | staticassert | null | I can absolutely agree with that. | null | 0 | 1492731330 | False | 0 | dgjekl9 | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgjdxdq | null | 1494244053 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nrith | null | Do you want the aladeen head bobble or the aladeen head bobble?
| null | 0 | 1492731334 | False | 0 | dgjekot | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjc80u | null | 1494244054 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hardolaf | null | I graduated from Ohio State University in the USA with a BS ECE and some people are amazed at what we had to do for classes. We had problems that have never been publicly solved on the internet. We had to actually accomplish things to graduate. I work with a guy who decided to go look up some of our public course mate... | null | 0 | 1492731369 | False | 0 | dgjelmw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8k8l | null | 1494244067 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CaptainAdjective | null | Actually the arguments go [hour, minute, second, month, day, year](http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php), in that order. | null | 0 | 1492731370 | False | 0 | dgjelnz | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdkue | null | 1494244068 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | I interview people at my work asking questions I would have failed if I had applied right out of school and not simply got a job offer at the end of my internship. The internship interviews are largely non-technical.
Its silly.
I honestly think the best is to find schools and majors that produce good candidates and ... | null | 0 | 1492731375 | False | 0 | dgjelt4 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjdit6 | null | 1494244070 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | speedisavirus | null | I've interviewed far more terrible candidates from Indian schools than US schools. Plenty of bad US candidates but I'd save myself a lot of fucking time if I could just not interview anyone with an Indian school education. | null | 0 | 1492731394 | False | 0 | dgjema9 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjbymp | null | 1494244076 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | peruytu | null | I work as a applications specialist. I work very close with engineers, programmers, full stack people all the time. I haven't personally met an H1-B employed Indian programmer who hasn't been qualified for the job. I guess because out of the two places I've been employed in the last decade, they are very strict with th... | null | 0 | 1492731403 | False | 0 | dgjemi3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494244079 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MizchiefKilz | null | That's the problem. In the time it takes to write a spec that is detailed enough to get good work out of those teams, it's actually easier to use a programming language than English.
The only success I've had is if there is a system that has the architecture pretty well set in stone, but needs a ton of custom modules... | null | 0 | 1492731463 | False | 0 | dgjeo5l | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjcr1w | null | 1494244101 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | speedisavirus | null | You should be able to write something fairly close for a simple problem without an editor in a language you claim to be proficient in. | null | 0 | 1492731473 | False | 0 | dgjeoey | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494244104 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LtAramaki | null | Maybe you studied in a better school than I did, but years after basic arithmetic, our tests and homework included doing arithmetic by hand, just on larger numbers. That's what I was talking about, I wasn't complaining my teacher asked me what's 3 * 9 and I pulled out a calculator.
Eventually in the last two years of ... | null | 0 | 1492731535 | False | 0 | dgjeq4e | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgjef6s | null | 1494244127 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hardolaf | null | I'd say that 75% of my graduating class was definitely qualified for work as an independent contributor or graduate school right out of the door. Of the remaining 25%, I think probably half could be made good enough with a good, intensive mentoring program. The last 12.5%, I consider "probably hopeless, should look int... | null | 0 | 1492731588 | False | 0 | dgjerky | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8v87 | null | 1494244147 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MuddyMudSkipper1 | null | I used to do tech support for a software company that was in the process of outsourcing to job to India. That means I had to train them. I would see guys with math degrees installing Windows over the top three or four times attempting a third party spyware issue. How could you be so illogical with a math degree?
I'... | null | 0 | 1492731592 | False | 0 | dgjeros | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494244148 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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