Indian "noise" on techie websites

[MarillionFan]

Please clarify, is this a I hate Database Blogs post or a Daily Mail vent?

Just clarifying to ensure I don't vent in the wrong direction.

[minestrone]

Please clarify, is this a I hate Database Blogs post or a Daily Mail vent?

Just clarifying to ensure I don't vent in the wrong direction.

Dim is struggling on how to work a database and has to read through this kind of claptrap on blogs, the rest of us posters are just neo nazis.

HTH

[ChimpMaster]

RTFM

Or is this what your education teaches you? That there is no
need to research or learn, because the answer to any question can be obtained for free from someone on the Internet?

[minestrone]

Or is this what your education teaches you?

Plz snd me codes to do this most humble sir

[d000hg]

I see just as many English/American useless people on technical forums. Complaining about them because they're Indian and making generalisations because of their nationality is borderline racist IMO.

[ChimpMaster]

Like I said, I am keen to help people - but they need to help themselves first.

It's when they expect free online training or the complete solution code that I get vexed. Especially when it's a most basic question!

Yes i've seen plenty of stupid American posters too but the majority now are from south India, that much is obvious. Racist or not, it is an observation.

[MarillionFan]

Like I said, I am keen to help people - but they need to help themselves first.

It's when they expect free online training or the complete solution code that I get vexed. Especially when it's a most basic question!

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First we were talking about Databases, then Indians and now permies!!! What a fast moving thread.

[Board Game Geek]

RTFM

Or is this what your education teaches you? That there is no
need to research or learn, because the answer to any question can be obtained for free from someone on the Internet?

Up to a point, yes.

For example, before the advent of the internet, we used books to educate ourselves, supplimented with instructional teaching and practical experience where necessary.

For example, take tiling a bathroom.

You could, in theory hire an experienced tiler to do it.

You could go to the library and get a book and read up on the techniques.

You could jump on the Net and read from one of many sites on home DIY and even see instructional videos as well.

Now, it might be argued, quite rightly, that the experienced tiler is hopefully going to do a professional job. (unless he or she qualified on the net last week as well :-)

However, unless you are kitting out your home to the Palace of Versailles standards, I would have though most practically minded people could do a basic job that "Would be good enough".

Such is the way of most businesses I expect, where they are trying to maximise return. Sure, you could hire an expert, and I am well aware of the "if you think hiring a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur" argument.

However, for most businesses, it comes down to price, and provided it's good enough and mostly works, then the need for the professional is somewhat a moot point in many cases.

The Interwebs facilitates the sharing of knowledge (unless you live in China or NK perhaps) on an unprecedented scale, and gives people worldwide the opportunity to learn at least the basics, and more, if they want to.

It levels the playing field, so that for a great many of professions that are information-knowledge based, the need for dependence on a handful of individuals [who charge accordingly] can be mitigated.

In x many years, none of this will matter anyway.

Want a skill ? Pop in a skillsoft chip in to your neural headware, job done.

Anybody will be able to do almost anything.

Granted, flying a chopper like an expert may require experience and that might be something a skill chip cannot provide, but if you just want to fly from A to B, then is combat vet experience really necessary ?

Then again, experience is just a collection of brain cells with attached memories, and if they could be "captured" and replicated, then who knows eh ?

[Durbs]

Now, it might be argued, quite rightly, that the experienced tiler is hopefully going to do a professional job. (unless he or she qualified on the net last week as well :-)

Much straightness, plenty groutings!

[Paddy]

I see just as many English/American useless people on technical forums. Complaining about them because they're Indian and making generalisations because of their nationality is borderline racist IMO.

Please find a technical forum with useless English/American people so that we can have equal opportunities to comment and thus comply with ethnic diversity guidelines in the number of comments on each site.

Hang on a minute, I just did a search in CUK and found that last year we commented 231 times on English/American sites; that means we need to balance up our diversity count and comment more about Indian sits.