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>Besides my educational background, at that time Indians weren't particularly considered to be suitable software material. (Amazing how the world turns, eh?) H
by richrichie 3y ago
>Besides my educational background, at that time Indians weren't particularly considered to be suitable software material. (Amazing how the world turns, eh?)
Has this really changed?
Sheer size of the base (a billion plus each from China and India) distorts and produces massive survivorship bias.
Like soccer or tennis, are there countries that produce ridiculously great programming talent per capita?
- theragra 3y agoProbably countries with strong math education, like Russia or China. Still, I guess top programmers from these will be great, but not average.
- kragen 3y agothere are still dumb white proto-hackers who are convinced that they're better at everything than sanjay ghemawat, raj reddy, vinod khosla, and umesh vazirani, but almost all of us have at some point had indian coworkers who were much better than us by now. and it takes a special kind of racism to consider yourself smarter than all four of that list above just because you have less melanin; people that bigoted are rare indeed