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Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by kovac »

Aeolun wrote: post #106
kovac wrote: post #69

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I remember when I was in college, we had this end of semester exam for stochastic processes. Our exams are usually about 2 hours long and have about 4-5 problems to solve. After this particular exam, a friend of mine was surprised that I hadn't seen the last problem with the answer in our professor's book (she has seen it the night before. Looks like all her friends had too). Ina mathematics exam with 4 problems, I c…

Ultimately it probably was. What use are your exam scores now?

You are right. It mattered when I was applying for jobs as a fresh grad. But it no longer matters. On the other hand, I still remember lots of the ideas behind theorems though I haven't done any pure math in a long time. While most of the people I know can't remember what a vector space is anymore despite high grades. Universities need to cut down the number of exams and let kids have sometime to think and try things out. When you have competitive quizzes every two weeks whole life revolves around them. Professors used tell us that those frequent quizzes were there to help us spread the eggs in multiple baskets so that our grades didnt depend on just one exam. I think they missed the point that I wasn't there for their exam grades in the first place. Well.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by cutemonster »

Aeolun wrote: post #108
mbo wrote: post #89

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Working for an American company from Australia, I've noticed a tendency for Americans to work overtime to meet a deadline, and Australians to vigorously oppose their peers from doing so. I've even seen people set up alerting if anyone makes commits outside of work hours. There's an unspoken agreement that if someone puts in overtime and others don't, it makes the non-overtimers look bad and that that the overtimer sh…

And the overtimer should be cut down. That kind of working leads to management expecting the same thing every time, and before you know it everyone is expected to work 12 hour days.

Or the employer could pay for the extra hours.

So that with cost taken into account, the overtime employee isn't much different from the others. Instead, skill would matter more.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by cutemonster »

wccrawford wrote: post #33
splonk wrote: post #17

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Another variant of this is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." I've usually heard it in reference to Japan, but occasionally other Asian countries as well.

The opposite is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". It's interesting how both views are opposite and yet both true.

"the squeaky wheel" is about someone who complains.

But "tall poppy" is someone who is talented.

No contradiction between punishing talented people, and serving those who complain.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by championswimmer »

Thanks for this very detailed article. One of my own videos on GSoC from 3 years back is featured there, and looking back (hindsight is 2020, they say) I see how I was a part of the problem back then. I was naive to think I was just making people more aware and getting people into open source more.

Sadly the very people who need to understand this, care to watch spicy Youtube videos more than they care to read a nuanced article. Nevertheless, I'll share this with as many people I can.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by wccrawford »

cutemonster wrote: post #153
wccrawford wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The opposite is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". It's interesting how both views are opposite and yet both true.

"the squeaky wheel" is about someone who complains. But "tall poppy" is someone who is talented. No contradiction between punishing talented people, and serving those who complain.

"The nail that sticks up" isn't necessarily about talent. It's about standing out in any way.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by cutemonster »

wccrawford wrote: post #155
cutemonster wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"the squeaky wheel" is about someone who complains. But "tall poppy" is someone who is talented. No contradiction between punishing talented people, and serving those who complain.

"The nail that sticks up" isn't necessarily about talent. It's about standing out in any way.

Ok that's right, sorry.

Here's two others: aim for the stars and hit the moon. And,

He who tries to get everything gets nothing

(Translated.)

Those sayings also disagree with each other

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by pvtmert »

HowTheStoryEnds wrote: post #99
pvtmert wrote: post #12

tl;dr because of population, people step on each other to feel 'successful' and get approved by their family/peers. unfortunately this happens in many places if not all. (eg same cr*p applies here in Turkey, if you're male and not a doctor or engineer or government employee, basically seen as failure) it is apperantly much more visible/causing problem because of lack of resources, strict cultural values as well as dr…

Belgium and the Netherlands have a higher population density, the flanders subregion even more so, you don't see such behaviour propagate there in such prevalence.

The point is life-quality is way less than Netherlands or Belgium.

Ofc when I throw party in my studio apartment, It becomes one of the most dense places in the world. But that does not result people fighting for beers, as long as there are enough beers in the fridge ;)

Essentially, there are a few beers in India's fridge. That results in a fistfight.

Re: Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

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Post by 1024core »

dang wrote: post #101
1024core wrote: post #83

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Is there an equivalent of "Uncle Tom" among Indian-Americans? Because you seem to be it.

Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.

It was not a personal attack per se. This person was insulting all Indian-Americans; so it seemed only fair to call him an "Uncle Tom" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom . I am sure you would feel the same way if a person of your group was insulting all of the members of that group.
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