> The author implicitly generalizes that all Indian and post-Soviet programmers are cheap and all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet. Respectfully, the g

> The author implicitly generalizes that all Indian and post-Soviet programmers are cheap and all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet. Respectfully, the generalization that includes the word ALL happens in the mind of the reader. The authors CANNOT have meant that all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet. Indeed, in the previous paragraph the author talks about "barely-out-of-high-school whiz kids", whom he also doesn't hold in high esteem; and those kids are likely imagined as American. The claim that the original text makes is probabilistic. It may even turn out to be true (as in, it is not unimaginable that it's more likely than not to get bad programmers on the project when outsourcing to cheap companies in e.g. India or post-Soviet countries).