>Some of these programmers are terrible. Some are awesome. I dare say, just like in NYC? :) Only with a different percentage of terrible and awesome. >Do all

>Some of these programmers are terrible. Some are awesome. I dare say, just like in NYC? :) Only with a different percentage of terrible and awesome. >Do all Indian/Pakistani/Egyptian/etc. hackers deserve to be painted with the same brush? No, of course there are great Indian/Pakistani/etc programmers. But generalising is not about being fair or accurate. Generalisation is a compromise between being accurate and making a decision in time. It's about being accurate _enough_ to make decisions as correct as possible without getting lost in the minutiae. And the reason people generalise about Indian/etc programmers is because they have been burned a lot of times by them (and not as many times by NYC programmers). If I had a nickel for every "please sir, solve my programming problem from me" type by an Indian programmer in an internet forum I would be rich. And a lot of those posters are not kids in school. They openly admit they work for a company, programming.