I think that the grandparent post was trying to imply that in the same way that US programmers complain about jobs going to India (to save money), that those Indian programmers are complaining about the same thing happening to them as their jobs are being "re-outsourced" to even less expensive areas of the world. Unfortunately, the bitter/vengeful tone of the post obscured that meaning somewhat.
I'm planning on travelling to Japan in a few months, so I went searching to see if there was a podcast dedicated to teaching Japanese. I found a couple, but there is one that stands head and shoulders above the rest. While the others I tried sounded like they had the Japanese equivalent of Ben Stein reading text from a beginning Japanese textbook, the people at JapanesePod101.com all seem to enjoy what they're doing. As far as I've gotten (about 1 month in), their teaching style is pretty much "Imagine you're in a restaurant and...", "So you're in the train station and...", "So you're looking for a taxi..." and providing the types of simple phrases you're going to need to survive in those types of situations. Theirs is far from a textbook presentation, but I often feel like they're having a conversation where I'm just happening to learn Japanese (and I like it that way). If you're looking to learn some basic Japanese - I highly recommend it.
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I think that the grandparent post was trying to imply that in the same way that US programmers complain about jobs going to India (to save money), that those Indian programmers are complaining about the same thing happening to them as their jobs are being "re-outsourced" to even less expensive areas of the world. Unfortunately, the bitter/vengeful tone of the post obscured that meaning somewhat.
I'm planning on travelling to Japan in a few months, so I went searching to see if there was a podcast dedicated to teaching Japanese. I found a couple, but there is one that stands head and shoulders above the rest. While the others I tried sounded like they had the Japanese equivalent of Ben Stein reading text from a beginning Japanese textbook, the people at JapanesePod101.com all seem to enjoy what they're doing. As far as I've gotten (about 1 month in), their teaching style is pretty much "Imagine you're in a restaurant and ...", "So you're in the train station and ...", "So you're looking for a taxi ..." and providing the types of simple phrases you're going to need to survive in those types of situations. Theirs is far from a textbook presentation, but I often feel like they're having a conversation where I'm just happening to learn Japanese (and I like it that way). If you're looking to learn some basic Japanese - I highly recommend it.