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Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by terminaljunkid »

bonzer wrote: post #132
xboxnolifes wrote: post #69

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This followed my own similar observations with Indian people that I know. They, more often than not, are more confident and straightforward in their actions whether it be how they honestly feel or not.

I’ve seen (while working at Google) that on paper they seemed to have lots of “education” and in meetings the ones in management were overly confident and talked the talk but in 1:1 rarely did they know anything that wasn’t in a book, jargon or memorized. Rarely did they think up their own ideas or challenged the status quo. My manager was from India. He told me to make my solutions look more complicated and more lin…

Caste system doesn't seem to be a reason. People here just want shortest way for something, not much ethical considerations or whatever.

People study CSE mostly because it pays well, despite having literally no interest in this.

People study 4 years sacrificing everything, in a rote learning way, to get into IITs.

People demand reservations for government jobs and education on whatever basis imaginable.

They just want some end at all means.

80% of Indian people are shit.. source: I am an Indian.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by terminaljunkid »

kamaal wrote: post #106
9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #100

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That's both a little harsh and doesn't stand up to scrunity. As a counterexample, consider Singapore, which also has inherited and retained the British education & legal systems, as well as standardized on English as the lingua franca despite it being nobody's mother tongue. Yet Singapore has still become one of the world's richest countries, while Malaysia next door, starting from almost the same position (they were…

Nonsense. Russian(Ex-USSR), China are more extreme in central planning and inward focus than India will ever be. The real problem is insatiable desire among Indians for Managerial/Administrative jobs. Or Govt bribe income potential jobs(Again in Administration). Most people want to be in abstract boss level administrative/managerial jobs because they think they can just give orders and make 10x more money than people…

> Indians do well in administration/management because it's the most aspirational job here.

If your definition of doing well is doing some droid - like managing of stuff, yes. Innovation? Not much..

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by terminaljunkid »

thwerw4234 wrote: post #95
programmertote wrote: post #39

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This is a biased, but honest observation that I'd like to share. I've been working for a big corp for about 5 years now. I was born in a SE Asian country and came to the US for college. I have worked with a lot of India-born people. As a fellow foreigner and as an Asian, I can tell that more often than not Indian people are bolder and more aggressive in asking for what they want (e.g., one of my Indian colleague aske…

To be fair, the Indian education system was crafted to create 'Brown Sahibs' to manage the Colonial Govt., and unlike say SE Asia and E. Asia, the system remains in essentially the same state that the British left it in. Indeed, most 'Indian Americans' are united in their hatred for their home countries IMO. On the other hand, it's very unsurprising that India's greatest export remains Human Labour. For those who don…

I am actually happy English is the language. India has several languages each with small population of speakers. Having access to education in English is big plus. If it was Hindi, all south and east Indians will be in serious disadvantage.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by dreamcompiler »

safog wrote: post #74
chairmanwow1 wrote: post #57

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This is under appreciated. I spent significant time living and working in China and it’s HARD. I came back to the US with a MUCH deeper respect for any immigrants I work with. Everything is much more confusing and frustrating.

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…

> Why is called Cilantro and not Corinander?

You probably know this, but in the US Cilantro is the leaves and Coriander is the seeds of the same plant. Possibly because only the leaves are used in Mexican cooking, and a huge amount of US cuisine these days originates from Mexico, or pretends to.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by rossdavidh »

war1025 wrote: post #35
rossdavidh wrote: post #17

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In at least some cases, the CEO is the one actually running things, and the President is the one whose job is to fire the CEO if they're screwing up. Not that it is put that way, of course.

> President is the one whose job is to fire the CEO if they're screwing up. I assumed the Chairman of the Board would fill that role? President sounds to me like a step below CEO, but I know very little about corporate structuring...

Depends on the company, but it is not uncommon for the President and Chairman of the Board to be the same person.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by Melting_Harps »

Miraste wrote: post #142
Melting_Harps wrote: post #139

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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…

Quite a collection! Did you get them from a corporate selloff or something? You might already know this, but Lenovo had the rights to use the IBM logo on their ThinkPads for several years after the purchase, so there are a few models that have the big IBM lettering but are really Lenovo machines. I'm also intrigued by Pinebooks and their open philosophy, but my tolerance for slow computers is low. I haven't used one…

I bought most before, I made a standalone POS/encrypted communications device using upcycled X series thinkpads for my fintech startup. I bought the newer stuff when I got there using my employee discount, which wasn't as much as I would have liked, but was what made me buy new instead of used.

As you can see, YC has a lot of other Thinkpad nerds, you also see them a lot at CCC conferences as well, they're like the AK47 of hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214952

I can forgive less than optimal performance for ergonomics for specific tasks, long writing sessions on Libre Office doesn't require much performance so I like writing on that old machine because my fingers can type so effortlessly and require less spelling corrections--this is the model I used during my undergrad. I'm willing to give the Pine a shot and I'm keeping an eye on the new pre-order.

I have machines with specific OS' and hardware to keep me on task.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

dang wrote: post #114
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #93

Outsourcing firm to India hires Indian CEO.

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.

No, THIS comment was flamebait:

Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.

That's basically racist.

It's clear that this entire thread was commented on due to the race of the CEO.

In that context, my comment is richly deserved on this thread.

If you don't like it, ban me. Yes I read n-gate.com, I know what the prevailing ethos and fake virtue signalling of this site's readership is.

I'm sure the unsubstantive flamebait posts you mostly refer to are my economic ones, again which contradict the Ayn Rand "entrepeneurs are god and can do no wrong" of this site.

Just don't be a coward and shadowban me.

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