On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, wrote:
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Yeah, I second your thoughts on incompetence. My company's conducting
interviews of freshers, and you'll be amazed at the answers I get for "What
is a hash table?". One bright bulb answered it with "It is a hash function
table". My standard opening interview question is to ask them to write a
simpl
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sridhar
Ratnakumar wrote:
> Now do you think a person who is lazy to type a few characters in an
> Internet search engine (as evidenced by "Is there any tutorial. Should
> we include any library?") would be interested at all in reading a
> 60,000 words document?
I
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Aman Aggarwal wrote:
[..]
> thanks for the response.
>
> I posted the same question here :
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/974931/multiply-operator-applied-to-listdata-structure
[..]
You're welcome but please don't quote entire digests back to the list. :
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Pradeep Gowda wrote:
> (...) it might still be worth answering them,
In light of this conversation's topic, we certainly wouldn't
spoon-feed them, would we?
> at the same time also
> pointing them to a net etiquette
> link [2].
> [2] http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smar
Depends upon the focus of the thread as well right? I mean a lot of threads,
like this one, will have an overwhelming prevalence of Indian people. Seems
to me that labeling the average Indian developer that way just might be a
tad unfair.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar
wrot
Good points, but what I am most curious about is why this phenomenon is so
prevalent in the Indian dev community and not as pervasive elsewhere. The
ruby community is rife with apt examples. The average Indian developer will
pop up and demand answers for a really silly Rails question or something.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Sridhar
Ratnakumar wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar
> wrote:
> I don't know the reasons either, but would like to know too.
>
> I often think the best way to handle such posters is to momentarily
> divert the topic of the conversation t
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Jayanth. I am new to BangPypers and Python in general. I have
> been working on Ruby however so I am not lost or anything.
>
> I wanted to point out that on ruby-lang several posters from India seem to
> have no conce
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