pekru

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by pekru 13y ago
> Actually a free Windows OS would actually be great. Here in India, Pirated Windows OS are like as common as mosquitoes. No one but Microsoft was losing in all this. Actually, MS knew all along that piracy is rampant and they let it wor
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by pekru 13y ago
> accusing him of, first, racism, then favoring only crony capitalism Well, am quite sure all of us here are quite reasonable folks who do not harbour racist feelings towards another fellow man. The very fact that Yummyfajitas chose to c
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by pekru 13y ago
> I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys... Just adding another note, on the firms you mentioned. Reliance, is a known to be a crooked player that uses non-ethical business practices and is a major c
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by pekru 13y ago
> you'd clearly see that I don't believe every local firm does this Yes. I clearly see the original comment seems to infer that most of the (or almost every!?) local firms in India does that. > Do you claim I'm wrong
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by pekru 13y ago
> So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the most qualified, etc. Oh, such wonderful news. So height is not a requirement for positions of power now! Someone should change th
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by pekru 13y ago
A part of my mind says this comment is sarcastic. If that is the case, well, I guess us culturally inferior workers should be thankful that someone took the burden of teaching us the ways of western style management and enlightening us.
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by pekru 13y ago
> If you want to do voluntourism, I suggest something different: start a business ... You'll definitely have a positive effect on people by teaching them about western business practices. Yeah right. Unfortunately, it might have bee
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by pekru 13y ago
Am very sure the above comment would get downvoted. Well, the West is always right, cause they have got the money!
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by pekru 13y ago
> Treating low skill commodity workers as human beings on the same social level as yourself is such a destructive western practice. So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the
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by pekru 13y ago
> HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. Seems so. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ But more than that, in his own words, he was a "man of excesses.&quo
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by pekru 13y ago
Just elaborating. The 'basic pay' part of the salary paid by tech companies in India is usually very less. (And it isn't due to sinister motives but rather to maximize the non-taxable chunk in salary). This 'basic pay&#x
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by pekru 13y ago
>> That's not bad - probably more than most people would get here in the UK. It isn't a huge chunk of money in India, just decent enough to get by barely for a month, considering that much of these folks might be having loan
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by pekru 13y ago
> Again, like you say, it is probably not the India and China people's fault, > their level of english is terrible Indians'/Chinese'
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by pekru 13y ago
Exactly. Cloud is not the silver bullet. But at the same time, there is not much merit in choosing to be a luddite and not use the capabilities of cloud where there's a genuine need. I feel IBM, to an extent is guilty of not pursuing t
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The programmers' Sefirot(neilk.net)
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by pekru 13y ago
You owe me a new monitor, I washed it with my coffee! Really, hilarious comments in this thread. Thanks, y'all!
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Turritopsis_dohrnii(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pekru 13y ago
So there goes my tax money. And am still struggling (for the past two years) to save up some chunk for a phone. Just another point to prove that salaried class Indians are the most abused bunch in India.
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by pekru 13y ago
That would be before taxes. The reason why good Indian developers command a 20-25 lakh INR per annum in salary is in part due to the income tax. Indian income tax mandate swallows upto 30% of income from people who have an income exceeding
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by pekru 13y ago
Obligatory quote (and a simple TL:DR): paying peanuts would only get you monkeys.
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by pekru 13y ago
My friend, it's not that easy. The guys who have already made it big (those in top management) have a great deal of financial security built up for themselves. The unfortunate ones would be the 'supposedly' good folks who hav
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by pekru 13y ago
I'll join you in the prayer too. But be very aware of the fact that once the investors and companies are off, even the bright ones around will have a tough time. IT(sic) would take a lot of time to stabilize in India.
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by pekru 13y ago
This. But if one still does it 'off the books' sort, it should still work (though there is risk of breaching the terms in employment contract with the gubment)
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by pekru 13y ago
A shortened list #0. Force usage of shitty/hopeless tools/frameworks at work. #1. Pay late #2. Ask for TPS reports #3. Recruit a bunch of abusive retards for middle/senior management These four, for sure!
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by pekru 13y ago
>> should rather spend the space telling me more specifically about what the job entails. hmm. based on my experience, I can say that not every team/firm that is hiring would know for the fact as to what is the exact thing the re
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by pekru 13y ago
Sample test data for joblint. A team comprising of few Python superstars, vim gurus, emacs superstars is now looking for a software crafts(wo)man who would be interested in being part of the team to juggle a pool of challenging proble
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by pekru 13y ago
Being a citizen of a third world country (India), this sounds all too surprising to me. Looks like banking in the US is pretty shitty for the poor. Out here, banking works like a charm. At least, most of the nationalized banks. Nobody pays
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by pekru 13y ago
Try organizing a seminar on programming in some womens only college. Not more than a handful would land up. Bangalore/Chennai/India, same story throughout.
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by pekru 13y ago
Lucky! Well, you should be glad you aren't in India! You would be in jail if that was the case. Indian police's track record in handling cybercrime is unparalleled. http://www.rediff.in/news/2008/jan&#x2F
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by pekru 13y ago
Surprised nobody came up with a Yahಠ_ಠ! This one seemed classy enough and modern ... http://media.tumblr.com/bd2439f8e2fc7a08ce923374af8f3758/tum...

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