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Ask Indian Techies About 'Onshore Insourcing'
This Slashdot interview has a little twist to it. Instead of using email, I'm going to relay your questions 'live' to people I meet while I'm here in New Delhi, speaking at LinuxAsia2004. Offshore outsourcing has gotten a lot of attention on Slashdot (and NewsForge) lately, but I figure that from this end we ought to call it 'onshore insourcing' instead. Feel free to ask other questions about 'geek life' in India, too; I'll ask as many questions as I can of as many people as I can, and post their answers when I'm back in the U.S.
Does it give you superpowers?
Ask them if they get fp.
Say "Sat-shri A-kal!" to the Sikhs
Say "Asa-laam Alaykum!" to the Muslims
Ask them if it chaps their collective arses that they're supposed to feel guilty because some morbidly obese pizza hound in the Valley area wants all the benefits of free-market capitalism without the down-side.
JMB
Interviewer: What do you think of Western Civilisation?
Mahatma Gandhi: I think it would be a very good idea!
we'll it's dirty country. i'm just wondering how ...
it got that way, considering it harboured
one of the oldest "modern" civilisation
like someone else pointed out earlier
a ton of mathematics was "dicovered"(?)
in india (see vedas).
hope this out-sourcing to india is going to
get that country a bit cleaner.
it's prolly all that Atman brahman thingy
that makes them good at logic and math.
also methinks if india doesn't want to just
be a "slave programmer" country, maybe also
allow some innovation. "no, really you KNOW how to program, now do something like napster or something." = basement project!
just re-implementing know ideas isn't going
to give them the competive edge needed in the
industry. they'll just stay the cheap "slave
programmer" country.
women are "push to start" and men are "pull to start" ??
How often do you exchange the diaper on your head for the diaper on your arse? Can you smell the difference when you do or is it "no change"??
Is it true that you have sex with the cattle since you figure they might be your dead wife living in there??
Is it true that you don't eat hamburgers? Why not??
Thanks! And have a GREAT day!!
Why are you so intent on improving your life by destroying mine?
In case you didn't notice, that was a joke people!! I'm actually from the "Western World" (I think.. Personally, I always though we all lived on the same world..)
Mod +5 Drunk
Why do you guys smell like curry?
I am in Tirupathi and my experience is very different. Many of us are unpaid, though I have moved forward enough to be paid. I am not sure what you mean by union, but I do know that programmers who make mistakes are treated... I am afraid to say.
I would like to work for your company instead perhaps? I have email.
Americans insource you?
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In the USA, I understand that the best way to become president is to let your father do the entire interview for you. Have you heard of anyone doing this?
Indian = Aryan by definition.
The swastika is the hindi word for the holiest
symbol in India and is used in all weddings,
funerals, and ceremonies.