This is not the first time someone has questioned, why it is Indians most often caught asking questions without a little basic research.
There has been an interesting discussion on this topic on reddit recently. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7wnha/more_hword_confusion_a_blog_post_about_clever/c07m4ci Incidentally the tone expressed in this email is exactly same as the discussion there! On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar <srijaya...@gmail.com>: > > I don't doubt that its a global phenomenon, however, I am still curious > > about the reasons for its prevalence out here. > > I will add my little theory to this discussion. > > If you are from a middle class background with no appetite for > entrepreneurial risk, but want a better life than your parents did, there > are few professional career options. > > Doctor? Architect? Lawyer? They require dedicating a serious chunk of your > life and are one-way streets. But programmer... excuse me, software > developer? By gosh, a big company will make a software developer out of > anyone in just three months, plus you get to go abroad and settle down. If > it doesn't work, no big deal. You didn't invest five years and half your > parents' savings to realise that. > > Ergo, we get a lot of people trying out to be programmers but not entirely > sure this is what they want, and bringing in that one key habit that got > them through life: when you need to know something, ask someone. > > You have a leak in your bathroom and need a plumber? Ask someone if they > know a good plumber! Whoever heard of the yellow pages? > > And the same thing online. Need help? Ask someone! They say there are these > things called mailing lists where knowledgeable people hang out? Go there > and ask someone! > > Does this mean they are mindless? No. It means they simply haven't had the > incentive to understand how this stuff works. They are not trying to be good > programmers. They're trying to have good careers with respect to the visible > hierarchy around them. > > Someone actually had the same problem and the answer is recorded in web > pages, which one can discover by typing key phrases into a search engine? > Gee, what a novel concept! Whoever knew search engines could be used for > anything more than popular keywords? > > > -- > Kiran Jonnalagadda > http://jace.zaiki.in/ > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- Regards, Lakshman becomingguru.com lakshmanprasad.com
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