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> Actually a free Windows OS would actually be great. Here in India, Pirated Windows OS are like as common as mosquitoes. No one but Microsoft was losing in all this. Actually, MS …

> accusing him of, first, racism, then favoring only crony capitalism Well, am quite sure all of us here are quite reasonable folks who do not harbour racist feelings towards anoth…

> I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys... Just adding another note, on the firms you mentioned. Reliance, is a known to be a crooked player that …

> you'd clearly see that I don't believe every local firm does this Yes. I clearly see the original comment seems to infer that most of the (or almost every!?) local firms in India…

> So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the most qualified, etc. Oh, such wonderful news. So height is not a require…

A part of my mind says this comment is sarcastic. If that is the case, well, I guess us culturally inferior workers should be thankful that someone took the burden of teaching us t…

> If you want to do voluntourism, I suggest something different: start a business ... You'll definitely have a positive effect on people by teaching them about western business pra…

Am very sure the above comment would get downvoted. Well, the West is always right, cause they have got the money!

> Treating low skill commodity workers as human beings on the same social level as yourself is such a destructive western practice. So is hiring a stranger with a great github rath…

> HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. Seems so. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ But more than that, in his own words, he was a "man o…

Just elaborating. The 'basic pay' part of the salary paid by tech companies in India is usually very less. (And it isn't due to sinister motives but rather to maximize the non-taxa…

>> That's not bad - probably more than most people would get here in the UK. It isn't a huge chunk of money in India, just decent enough to get by barely for a month, considering t…

> Again, like you say, it is probably not the India and China people's fault, > their level of english is terrible Indians'/Chinese'

Exactly. Cloud is not the silver bullet. But at the same time, there is not much merit in choosing to be a luddite and not use the capabilities of cloud where there's a genuine nee…

You owe me a new monitor, I washed it with my coffee! Really, hilarious comments in this thread. Thanks, y'all!

So there goes my tax money. And am still struggling (for the past two years) to save up some chunk for a phone. Just another point to prove that salaried class Indians are the most…

That would be before taxes. The reason why good Indian developers command a 20-25 lakh INR per annum in salary is in part due to the income tax. Indian income tax mandate swallows …

Obligatory quote (and a simple TL:DR): paying peanuts would only get you monkeys.

My friend, it's not that easy. The guys who have already made it big (those in top management) have a great deal of financial security built up for themselves. The unfortunate ones…