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So comparing him to low-mid level Indian managers who are fighting over scraps is comparing apples to oranges.
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Your thinkpad probably isn't even an IBM product. Lenovo bought them in 2005 and they've done a much better job than IBM would have--IBM sold the division in the first place because they had no vision for it at all. They've been riding inertia since the 80s.
I know my models; I was staring at the massive IBM logo when I wrote that. I swap between models throughout the day, and at the time I was on my X31, which was the last X series to be made by IBM and has the best keyboard of them all. I'm currently on an X61, and will move over to my 3rd gen X1 Carbon in a bit to get to work. As I said, I'm a fan boy; I have another 20-something X series' stored away for parts and as…
I'm also intrigued by Pinebooks and their open philosophy, but my tolerance for slow computers is low. I haven't used one yet, but System76 laptops seem like a good compromise between open hardware and modern performance.
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The language / the cultural barrier isn't as high as it is for an American living in China though. I've grown up speaking English and watching a lot of American / British movies and TV, reading a lot of english literature. I assume this is not the case for most Americans with Chinese culture. There's definitely a culture shock when you first move here and are figuring stuff out - How do you order food at a subway or…
I'm curious, what is a turn-pike?
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Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done it a lot, unfortunately, and we eventually ban that sort of account. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It’s crudely put certainly but it’s not entirely a point without merit https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S. It makes sense for a company to have a CEO familiar with its most significant business units.
Your post here, by contrast, is just fine.
So, not working with any insider knowledge (I work for Red Hat, but reading the news like everyone else), but the other news is that Jim Whitehurst is going to be the IBM President. Hopefully a big push in keeping Red Hat's culture relevant and influencing IBM to transform.
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What did he (ptrenko) say? Weirdly I only see --- as his comment.
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Don't forget the infamous in-group preferences they bring as soon as they take over.
You notice it as well. :) My division was managed by an Indian managing director, who succeeded a Caucasian boss prior 2018. Within 2 years of his arrival (and his departure for another company at the end of 2019), our department has the ratio of Indian to non-Indian ratio suddenly goes from around 20% to 70% (this increase in ratio accelerated because quite a few of the non-Indian people left in the past year). The…
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No. There's immense pressure on the mainframe market; there's a constant drumbeat of mainframe-killer tech that's definitely better/faster/stronger (and, on rare occasions, is...at least for some narrowly defined workload). IBM has to work very hard keep mainframes competitive technology, and even harder at sales/marketing to fend off the alternatives.
What competitive technology are you thinking here? IBM z-series mainframe carry enormous amounts of transaction workloads today. They are deeply embedded in most of the Fortune 1000 companies. Hitachi was the only real competitor left standing and they dumped their mainframe business in 2017 since they were unable to get traction outside of Japan. In the early 90's, there were efforts by customers to get rid of their…
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Indian Brahmins (the traditionally educated class) mostly getting kicked out of the country and not finding space in its social hierarchy after imposing thousands of years of the untouchability/caste system on everyone else. No other country had as many priests who were suddenly displaced from social hierarchy after their independence movement.
When did Brahmins get kicked out of the country. The Indian tech sector is better explained by a confluence of a few things, IMO: 1. English being the predominant spoken language, and the fact that North Indian languages share common roots with English meaning English is easier for Indians to pick up. 2. A cultural emphasis on education, and primarily engineering and medicine. You see similar cultural mores in former…
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This feels somewhat strange. A more plausible explanation (one given in some of the sibling threads) is that most of these folks are immigrants, and simply being an immigrant tells you something about the nature of this groups of people. But there is a twist: most of the immigrants from South Asia are also highly educated and here legally. That is quite a powerful combination in itself. Considering the large populati…
Indian Brahmins (the traditionally educated class) mostly getting kicked out of the country and not finding space in its social hierarchy after imposing thousands of years of the untouchability/caste system on everyone else. No other country had as many priests who were suddenly displaced from social hierarchy after their independence movement.
Some people like to hate on Brahmins. It is not even like all Brahmins are in religious professions either.