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Reminds me of the whole "Python is for Brahmins" stuff at Microsoft India office.
by asdff 5mo ago
Reminds me of the whole "Python is for Brahmins" stuff at Microsoft India office.
- ralfd 5mo agoWhat? Can you explain?
- ZiiS 5mo agoThe was a lawsuit that they only allowed favoured castes to use Python.
- orsorna 5mo agoThe exact quote "python is for brahmins" brings up top links on incels.is and 4chan, so perhaps OC's character is something worth dismissing.
- quibono 5mo agoThis is a bizarre reply? IIRC there was a law suit involved
- margalabargala 5mo agoThat's how the story goes, yes. It's satirical fiction. There was no lawsuit, just blogs saying there was. https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste-bias-claim-satire-fact-check/ https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste...
- vishnugupta 5mo agoI think it’s about software engineers, who are supposed to be impervious about effects of caste structures and hierarchy, judging programming languages from the caste lens. That is my interpretation, please don’t hold me against it
- rufdhxd 5mo agoSomeone once told me Indian software companies deliberately hold "secondary" staff like support etc under worse conditions than engineers (smaller monitors, less windows on walls, etc), because there was some law that said if they would get the same treatment, they would be eligible for same pay. So they made sure the treatment was obviously inferior. So, no idea but the Python restriction might have been only one more deliberate hardship on some poor folks. If someone knows something more accurate, happy to learn.
- vishnugupta 5mo agoLooks like it was a satire? I couldn’t find any authoritative sources on it. https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste-bias-claim-satire-fact-check/ https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste...