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It's still pretty bad. Imagine being the IT dept at the NYSE right now. The trading is likely being rerouted to other exchanges. The Wall Street Journal website

It's still pretty bad. Imagine being the IT dept at the NYSE right now. The trading is likely being rerouted to other exchanges. The Wall Street Journal website is also down.

fsk 11y ago
I interviewed at the NYSE a few years ago. Everyone was Indian.
- Gigablah 11y ago
  I'm not sure how that's relevant?
  - fsk 11y ago
    Hire cheap H1-bs, then your product doesn't work.
- esrauch 11y ago
  What?
- zabcik 11y ago
  Wow, the first racist comment I've read on HN. Must be because reddit kicked you out.
  - mgolawala 11y ago
    I was thinking the same thing. It's disgraceful. I know a disproportionately large percentage of Google and Microsoft are Indian too, quite likely Amazon as well. Making the connection that the NYSE glitch is somehow connected to the tech staff being Indian is absurd and completely racist.
    - pekk 11y ago
      I took the implication to be that NYSE (like some other companies) makes disproportionate use of H1B and similar. One purpose of making very heavy use of H1B is to get workers who are more desperate and likely to accept worse pay, conditions, and longer hours. This is an open secret at at least one of the major companies like the ones you cited. The "prevailing wage" requirement is not hard to work around. Hacker News might not like or expect this, but if you run a sweat shop with little regard for the welfare of your employees, you should expect more mistakes and lower quality output. This is not a comment on the racial ability of people whose ancestors were on the Indian subcontinent. There is no evidence I ever heard of for any inherent difference of ability by race. But sweatshops, that is another story.
      - thetruther 11y ago
        As someone in the know, you could not be more wrong. But guesses are like opinions, right?
        TeMPOraL 11y ago
        What in particular do you think is wrong in the GP's comment? I see a bunch of pretty much self-evident statements about quality of work produced in sweatshops.
        thetruther 11y ago
        Self-evident is a strong word to use despite no actual evidence being presented.
        fixxer 11y ago
        Genuinely curious: What are your qualifications?
        thetruther 11y ago
        I work at the exchange...there's no off-shore sweat shop. There are no people in india running commands or coding for 90 hrs a week. Folks in multiple US cities fixed this problem, including myself. I've only read comments here previously until I saw all this speculation. Its funny people are so adamant in their theories despite no evidence besides circumstance. It was a complex IT problem (no I can't get into more details) that we fixed. No hacking attempt, no conspiracy with the United Airlines Issue or WSJ...shit breaks. Anyway, back to my idling in the background.
  - kordless 11y ago
    Racial comments are blaming statements. I've read plenty of those on here over the years. Here's another example of fsk making a blaming statement which isn't racial in origin: > You have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook. Given I canceled my Facebook account in 2010, shortly after I was front and center in the news about tech addiction, I can definitively say that I don't have to be on Facebook. I also can say I can't speak for you on that matter, zabcik, or YOU, all you wonderful HN peeps. That's up to you guys to decide for yourselves! I was considering the impact a 'blaming statement' button next to each comment might have on the site. It possibly could help curate and educate the posters on here about the negative impact they have on conversation and trust. Sometimes the backlash to a blaming statement is worse than the statement itself. BTW, I get the sense (observation) from fsk's comments that he/she might be having a bit of trouble with their career, which might be why such a statement is being made. If so, I hear you fsk (I'm a 48 year old programmer/evangelist myself). Just remember you can't blame others for your own feelings! :)
  - doktrin 11y ago
    As if reddit actually kicks out racists.
    - forgotpasswd3x 11y ago
      If anything, I've noticed a surge in the amount of them on reddit lately.
      - doktrin 11y ago
        Well, glad I'm not the only one.
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It's still pretty bad. Imagine being the IT dept at the NYSE right now. The trading is likely being rerouted to other exchanges. The Wall Street Journal website is also down.

fsk 11y ago

I interviewed at the NYSE a few years ago. Everyone was Indian.

Gigablah 11y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant?
- fsk 11y ago
  Hire cheap H1-bs, then your product doesn't work.
esrauch 11y ago
What?
zabcik 11y ago
Wow, the first racist comment I've read on HN. Must be because reddit kicked you out.
- mgolawala 11y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. It's disgraceful. I know a disproportionately large percentage of Google and Microsoft are Indian too, quite likely Amazon as well. Making the connection that the NYSE glitch is somehow connected to the tech staff being Indian is absurd and completely racist.
  - pekk 11y ago
    I took the implication to be that NYSE (like some other companies) makes disproportionate use of H1B and similar. One purpose of making very heavy use of H1B is to get workers who are more desperate and likely to accept worse pay, conditions, and longer hours. This is an open secret at at least one of the major companies like the ones you cited. The "prevailing wage" requirement is not hard to work around. Hacker News might not like or expect this, but if you run a sweat shop with little regard for the welfare of your employees, you should expect more mistakes and lower quality output. This is not a comment on the racial ability of people whose ancestors were on the Indian subcontinent. There is no evidence I ever heard of for any inherent difference of ability by race. But sweatshops, that is another story.
    - thetruther 11y ago
      As someone in the know, you could not be more wrong. But guesses are like opinions, right?
      - TeMPOraL 11y ago
        What in particular do you think is wrong in the GP's comment? I see a bunch of pretty much self-evident statements about quality of work produced in sweatshops.
        thetruther 11y ago
        Self-evident is a strong word to use despite no actual evidence being presented.
      - fixxer 11y ago
        Genuinely curious: What are your qualifications?
        thetruther 11y ago
        I work at the exchange...there's no off-shore sweat shop. There are no people in india running commands or coding for 90 hrs a week. Folks in multiple US cities fixed this problem, including myself. I've only read comments here previously until I saw all this speculation. Its funny people are so adamant in their theories despite no evidence besides circumstance. It was a complex IT problem (no I can't get into more details) that we fixed. No hacking attempt, no conspiracy with the United Airlines Issue or WSJ...shit breaks. Anyway, back to my idling in the background.
- kordless 11y ago
  Racial comments are blaming statements. I've read plenty of those on here over the years. Here's another example of fsk making a blaming statement which isn't racial in origin: > You have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook. Given I canceled my Facebook account in 2010, shortly after I was front and center in the news about tech addiction, I can definitively say that I don't have to be on Facebook. I also can say I can't speak for you on that matter, zabcik, or YOU, all you wonderful HN peeps. That's up to you guys to decide for yourselves! I was considering the impact a 'blaming statement' button next to each comment might have on the site. It possibly could help curate and educate the posters on here about the negative impact they have on conversation and trust. Sometimes the backlash to a blaming statement is worse than the statement itself. BTW, I get the sense (observation) from fsk's comments that he/she might be having a bit of trouble with their career, which might be why such a statement is being made. If so, I hear you fsk (I'm a 48 year old programmer/evangelist myself). Just remember you can't blame others for your own feelings! :)
- doktrin 11y ago
  As if reddit actually kicks out racists.
  - forgotpasswd3x 11y ago
    If anything, I've noticed a surge in the amount of them on reddit lately.
    - doktrin 11y ago
      Well, glad I'm not the only one.

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