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In his criticism, replace American grads with corporations and you get:

Many corporations are looking to enter the tech field are preoccupied with getting rich

Of course, corporations want a cheap labor workforce that they don't have to train.

A good college education should give you a solid foundation for learning new things; not just job training.
I am under the impression that once a virus binds to a site, it attempts to push itself into the cell.

Would it be possible or practical to make a filter media, or throat spray using sialic acid to catch H1N1 viruses and fool them into 'thinking' they have reached a target location? The goal being to selectively trap or destroy as the virus attempts to enter a fake target cell. Could something like this help prevent infection or help to quell severe infections?

Would this be the computer analogous metaphor for a 'honey pot'.
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ITIL and Six Sigma? They're looking for the wrong skills.

If that's his complaint, he's right. I'm not going to waste my time memorizing a series of 'comprehensive checklists' in college. I doubt I know a single CS/Math student who has done more than peruse the Wikipedia article (or maybe read a book in their spare time if they're feeling particularly masochistic) on Six Sigma - and I like to think that I know many great students in the field (several who've worked for Google, Sun, NSA, Microsoft Research, etc).

There have been many times that I've said 'Damn, I wish I knew more about X.' In the last week alone X has included POMDPs, multi-dimensional interval trees, or functors. I have never, not once, wished I knew more about the management fad du jour.
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I thought about this sort on my own a couple years ago, and I thought I'd discovered the most amazing thing in sorting :P

Not only did I realize I was beaten to the punch few years earlier, but also that efficiency is lost in implementation.
I think he was using "techno" as an umbrella term for electronic music. Lets be honest -- techno, trance, electro, progressive etc. it's all ultimately pretty much the same thing.
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I concur. It should also be noted that the work culture in the US is different than that of India. Very often, foreign companies investing in the U.S. make the mistake of expecting the same uniformity in the local workforce that they are used to seeing back home.

I should also mention the monumental levels of competition overseas students like in India have to clear to have a shot at a school like IIT, and I guess this radiates into everything else that follows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology...
The best way to learn about management fad du jour is to be subjected to it. And the main, perhaps only, thing worth learning about it is that you want to avoid it.
---Your opinion has to be one of the most unconversant comments I have read on HN in a while--- :D :D

I am pleased to know that the students in US are unemployable. But then I guess its the case world over.

India has 5 lakh engineering graduates. only 20% of them are employable.
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Sorry, I disagree. It's disrespectful to both parties (applicant and reference). Sounds like a tool.

If I were to receive this kind of call, I'd contact the applicant and ask WTF was going on.
asking women for advice about dating is like asking fish for advice about fishing.
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My solution: Free market. Let anybody practice medicine. No state licenses, no medical school degrees required. No controlling number of physicians entering the system each year. If you are good, you will stay in business. Let free market weed out the good from the bad.
Radix-sort is actually not linear. The algorithm will only work if the word-length w>=log(n) (because otherwise you can't store all possible n) so O(nw) is practically the same thing as O(nlog(n))
And the other 80% tries their luck on elance / similar sites.
Get it? Lower your expectations! Do not want to get rich! Want to work for the same amount as people from undeveloped economies! Then maybe you can find a place in the organization of this top CEO, if you're lucky enough.
It could be done more concisely by using data structures and the (map fn struct) function, but it was expanded for clarty.
So many stereotypes and generalisations. :(
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"First: under ordinary circumstances she can have multiple orgasms in fairly rapid succession, while you can't."

[citation needed]

Oh, wait.

Kinsey report: "Females: 14% of females in the sample reported regularly responding with multiple orgasms, (p. 375, Female)."
I don't know, it just seems more like a management summary than a real textbook. Maybe that is just the thing to tip a teen's interest, but I remain skeptic.
HCL and other employers need to have a greater influence on the tech curricula of U.S. colleges and universities, to make them more real-world and rigorous. For the most part, he said, those institutions haven't been receptive to such industry partnerships.

In my experience, the largest influence of employers on schools has been the pervasiveness of Java in higher education. Since it's now all but obvious how horribly short-sighted "teaching Java in college" turned out to be, I think the burden of proof is on him to explain why teaching everyone "ITIL, Six Sigma, and the like" isn't equally short-sighted.
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>> Dirt can absorb a LOT of heat. If you had to put out a fire, and you didn't have any water, you'd throw some dirt on it, right? We are all standing on a big ball of fire, anyway. <<

The fire is extinguished by throwing dirt because of lack of oxygen, not because the dirt "absorbs" heat.
Having worked with Indian Developers I would never suggest anyone be trained to not be able to see the "big picture" or not be able to take instructions longer then one sentence. It's insane and this person is right, American graduates just can't think that way however, McDonald's workers CAN think that way. He is looking in the wrong place for employees, he needs to cull employees from the fast food industry who can do one step then stop, one stop then stop, one step then stop, and be happy with that lifestyle.
I think this CEO is saying that it is hard to find non h1b wage slaves in America.
HCL (like Infosys, TCS Wipro etc) is a body shopper firm and has nothing much to do with "Computer Science" or the cool things you mention (multidimensional interval trees, POMDP etc). Mr Nayar is just saying that he thinks American Graduates don't have the kind of crap enterprise buzzword "skills" that he can sell to clueless managers at x $/hr. Mr Nayar and his firm wouldn't know what to do with someone who is really good at Computer Science or Math, because those are not the "markets" he addresses. I would imagine an American grad student would be happy to be unemployable (by Mr Nayar).

Really this is just a bodyshopper trying to justify why he isn't hiring costly Americans (vs cheap Indians). Of course he can't say "I am looking for cheap bodies to ship offshore and Americans are expensive", and still retian his job. These mumblings aren't worthy of being upset over.

Due Disclosure: I am Indian. I work in India (Bangalore to be precise), but I do work with POMDPs, MultiDimensional Interval Trees and so on ;-) (My latest project is in Robotic Vision and Navigation, for the Indian Defence Dept)
I call BS; and I live in Bangalore, and I run a software company.

Over the last 8 years I have worked with dozens of American programmers, and on an average they are better than their Indian counterparts. His own company (HCL) employs some of the people who I thought formed the bottom of the class. Yet another senior programmer in another IT major (TCS) who was a CS grad, thought he was writing code for a new 16 bit computer.

From the article itself, it is easy to see what he considers talent: following Six Sigma, CMM etc. Guess what, CMM itself is so ridiculously outdated that only Indian IT companies seek it. In a CMM review I was part of in 2007, they said 80% were Indian IT companies. Needless to say, there are more failed projects that successful ones.

Our website says "Made in India"; but sadly, thanks to these IT companies it could be mistaken as a 'Process-driven, cheap, intellect-independent way of building software'.

These massive "brick-in-the-wall", "Enterprise" Indian IT Companies compete exclusively on "hourly-billing-rate".

There is hope in sight, but they come from smaller, newer companies.
If you have to represent each value in unary, how can you even set up the input and read the results in less than O(N^2), much less carry out the "fall"?
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Category theory is a way of taking theorems in one area (say, group theory), figuring out the minimum set of assumptions necessary for the theorem to hold, and then translating it into every possible similar structure. It's sort of like interfaces in some ways. Because normal mathematics is already pretty darned abstract, category theory gets even worse, but there is some content there underneath it.
Frankly, his complaints are why the West has nothing to fear from India any time soon. As an Indian, there is nothing more important than external verification of one's social status. For example, in India, they ISO certify everything. FFS, the number one dating (I wish I could use strikethrough on HN and put matrimonial after, but c'est la vie) website for Indians is ISO certified: http://www.shaadi.com/customer_relations/faq/iso-certificati...

Indians are fantastic at rote memorization and will listen to directions to the letter - no freelancing there. To India's benefit, it should mean that they'll be spitting out really, really good cars (as long as they're designed elsewhere) and large industrial output in the near future.
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heh, this could be the one post where a link to Tag Heur watches could actually be on topic (I'm half joking ...).

In all seriousness, I have a friend who looks quite a bit like me (both indian, both wear glasses, similar hair cuts, I'm 6'3'' 200 lbs he's 6'2'' 190, etc).

He wears nicer clothes/accessories ($1500 watch, designer jeans, the whole nine yards), and it's amazing how many more girls come up and talk to him when we're out. I know it's not quite a fair experiment, since maybe he has better body language or other hidden cues, but it's eery.

I (to a degree) buy into the theory that his expensive outfit is supposed to signal affluence, which is a bit ironic since I make nearly 50% more than him ...

[Edit: for posterities sake, the 'dead' post I responded to was a spammer posting links to knock off designer watches.]
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I remember finding the Jordan book in the library when I was first taking quantum as an undergrad. It seemed like a very interesting approach, but also like it was leaving a lot of important concepts out.
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Yup. This is especially true if a person is still employed. I've known bosses to give absolutely glowing references to otherwise-unfireable people just in the hopes of getting rid of them.
What he's observing is that his jobs--the ones given to outsourcing companies--have diverged from the ones taken by companies in Western wealthier countries.

It ought to be so: if Americans and Indians were competing for the same jobs, the current difference in salaries couldn't have been sustained for so long. Most people who have worked with outsourcing know the limits, especially in terms of initiative, understanding or even common sense, of what can be done successfully by Indian IT companies.

The whole article only makes sense for people who think that "guys who are paid to do stuff on a computer" are a single, mostly uniform resource. What is very worrying is that this illiterate understanding seems to be held by top executives of international IT companies.
"The last bead in each BeadSort row can contain a sticker with some metadata."

Wrong. The beads in columns remain in the original order (not sorted) and so would these stickers.
Just curious, what code speak is this: EE101, Phy220?

My guess is Electrical Engineering course number id 101 and Physics course number id 220.

Did you guys attend the same college or is there a larger part of the world where these ids are standardized?
well, since most of us get flu at least once every couple of years, it's kind of hard to avoid H1N1, the most popular form of influenza going around. Of course, if we were to catch the very specific form of H1N1 with the genetic coding that matches the swine flu epidemic, that'd be worse.

It's worth remembering that in almost all cases, it's not the flu that kills you - it's the onset pneumonia, diarrhea and dehydration that takes you down. The best survivalist method is to remind yourself how to treat cold/flu symptoms, stock up on meds, and sweat it out. Helps if your health insurance is up to date too. :)
It could be that my estimation of other people's elbow angles are incorrect. When I place my hand above the numeric keypad, my elbow angle is about 100 degrees. When I move it about 10 inches to the right, it increases to about 120 degrees.

This might be because of my typical seated posture - I lean quite far back in my chair.

If, however, I slouch forward towards my monitor, with my shoulders off the back of the chair, the increase in elbow angle when moving my hand 10 inches to the right is much smaller.
What HCL CEO was saying is true, American Grads are not employable because they are interested in creating new technology and starting new start ups, Ideal American grad wants to start a startup.And look its the American started google, microsoft, ibm, youtube etc... If you want perfect employee who want to maintain the 10 year old technology created by American companies you can get it only from india and China. I never seen an Indian created new product that changes world. Apart from creating bull shit products for maintaining documents for Sig Sigma , iso 9001, CRM etc. --- Angry young Indian.
Just curious. If you have so many negatives in favor of Indian engineers, why do you still work with them? Is it because of cost effectiveness or is it because you think every engineer has negatives and these are just specifics to Indians?
If you have a 'strong pure math background', chances are you won't like theoretical physics. Physics is all about positive thinking, results and moving forward. As a result the 'theories' aren't theories in the mathematical sense, to a mathematician they're just a bunch of equations thrown together. (My point is, once something 'works', physicists aren't interested in making it mathematically rigorous.) There are no definitions, clearly stated theorems and proofs, instead we have 'physical insight'. They always say the language of physics is mathematics. My take is that physics borrows the syntax of mathematics, but not the semantics. That may not be an exact statement, but hey, I'm a physicist myself =)

You will never ever be able to have a 'solid understanding' of modern theoretical physics in the sense you have a solid understanding of complex analysis, noone does. (A notable exception is Relativity.)

Nevertheless, some books.
Feynman lectures on physics (3 volumes): to learn the 'physical insight' part. Really really good.
Landau (many volumes): I personally don't like Landau, but it's pretty standard and comprehensive.
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A mate of mine has the following tip for picking up girls in bars which has served me well.

"Go ugly early and avoid the late night rush"

Good luck gentlemen.

EDIT - just thought I should probably elaborate a little.

While out, in aggregate it should be noted that men generally become more tolerant of a woman's appearance with the more alcohol he has consumed. The so called "Beer Goggles" effect.

Due to this effect, the competition for a limited number of females becomes more fierce as the night goes on.

Therefore, he came up with the above thought, essentially to avoid this late night drunken congestion issue.
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You are very correct about these observations.

I am an Indian myself, and some time ago I wrote an article that tried to explain why the engineers in Indian outsourcing companies tend to be of low quality: http://www.diovo.com/2008/08/why-outsourcing-sucks/

The only thing I would like to add is that I think that this percieved difference between the US and Indian engineers is because of our view point itself, and not because of the lower quality of CS education in India as such. Outsourcing companies tend to recruit low quality engineers and so you find more of them there.

These outsourcing companies recruit in thousands each year. This means that they don't give a ____ about quality.

The US counterparts recruit good engineers.

If you want to really compare the quality of US and Indian engineers, compare the quality of them in the startups.
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It may be that he acts more confident because he is wearing ~5000 dollars to back him up, whereas your money is in the bank.

Similar to the women like men who wear nice deodorant really because men feel more confident when they wear nice deodorant and women like confidence phenomenon.
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Actually the course number for me was 'ECE 110.'

A 101 course is, traditionally, the first course in a series while 'EE' is traditionally 'Electrical Engineering.' Hence, 'EE101' is an idiomatic way (at least in America) to indicate the first Electrical Engineering course a student would take in college.
well said plinkplonk !
As an indian techie myself i have to second with you.
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> "There is a lot more to this, but I'll stop there."

Go on with your explanation. I'm not grokking it yet.
With regards to my own business, I'm solidly in the let-it-all-hang-out camp. I'm also willing to tell you a few anecdotes from my professional career, but that is about as far as I can go. I really can't discuss strategic matters from my day job -- it would be a breach of their trust in me.
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In other words.. we still need to make sites IE6 compatible the coming 10 years.
Frankly, his complaints are why the West has nothing to fear from India any time soon.

Well, the rich countries aren't going to lose their edge in tech innovation in the short term, but that doesn't mean that a lot of jobs won't continue to migrate to poorer countries.

This is an old tune though -- as technologies slip away from the leading edge they tend to relocate to places where they can be produced at a lower cost. It sounds like what the CEO quoted in the article is saying is that Americans don't fit the bill for that kind of development.
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"Indians are fantastic at rote memorization" , and you know what being an Indian, I hate that lot of the crowd. There is a lack of independent thinkers here, and the rotten education system that puts emphasis on memorization (eg. my college) are the ones responsible for creating such a crowd of fantastic memorizers...

I wish they encouraged more of learning by doing here and we could've had better people to boast about.
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Thanks a lot. Solves my occasional wondering about the exact semantics behind some uses of CS101.
I guess a better title would have been: "Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are 'Unemployable' for his firm"

In my opinion, this article and his views do not deserve too much attention. But it scares me how top management of some of these so called 'software development' firms trends to drift away from reality, and just start equating developing software to having an assembly line like process.
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Oh, do you have to work with them during your day job? I thought it was regarding BingoCardCreator
Oh, my. While I assume this is just meant to be a funny little quip, it's too offensive to just let slide.

First of all, you compare dating women to fishing, as if women where objects to be acquired. This might be forgivable if there were any merit to the statement, but there is not.

Women, as self-aware agents, are quite capable of giving very good advice about dating women, both from self-reflection (knowing what they do and do not like, etc.) and from talking with other women about dating. Not to mention that some women date other women.

I'm not trying to pick on you; I just found this statement to be in poor enough taste that I couldn't in good conscience fail to say something.
I'm really surprised that this hasn't been posted before...
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I think that Brasilia has a similar system, but the blocks themselves are somewhat different from blocks in normal cities. Take a look here for instance

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Those weird names like SQS304 are in fact block numbers.
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