Why is software from India considered poorly written by American programmers? For exa...?

I have experience of a couple of Indian offshoring firms. The to big cultural difference between here (UK) and India seem to be that 1: Indian programmers / project managers are less willing to…

Top stories for Long   Why is software from India considered poorly written by American programmers? For example, stories about having to rewrite outsourced applications. Mark Harrison, Wrote my first program in the late 1970s • Answered December 21 I have experience of a couple of Indian offshoring firms. The to big cultural difference between here (UK) and India seem to be that 1: Indian programmers / project managers... Read more » 318 36   Should I pay full tuition for Yale or go to the University of Florida for free? Joshua Gross, Associate Professor of Computer Science at CSUMB • Answered January 15, 2020 If Yale is charging you list price, you have a lot of money. I mean a lot of money. What do you care? Go to Yale. Or don't. It won't matter. The idea that Yale is worth $300... Read more » 592 31   In Australia, there is a road called the Hume highway, connecting Melbourne and Sydney. It's 2000km long and has a speed limit of 20km/h, with hidden speed cameras every metre. Do people find this hard to believe? Robert Folkes, lived in Sydney, Australia (1988-2003) • Updated February 21 OP in Australia, there is a road called the Hume highway, connecting Melbourne and Sydney. It's 2000km long and has a speed limit of 20km/h, with hidden speed cameras every... Read more » 1.6K 227   Who is John Cusack? Joan Wall • Answered June 28, 2025 John Cusack has never been married. When asked by Elle Magazine/August 2024 to say why he's never been married in 5 words….he said, ….."I can do it in seven: 'Society doesn't... Read more » 1.8K 197   Why are there no 'B' batteries? Loring Chien, Electrical engineer • Updated Sun In the family of cylindrical cell batteries you normally see AAA AA C and D sizes. The store shelves are conspicuously absent of A and B cylindrical cells. Well there is a st... Read more » 6.2K 387   If Batman existed in the real world how long would his career last? Brian Cohen • Updated February 20 3 weeks TOPS. A) Criminals: Remember this from Daredevil? Possibly, one of the coolest US fight scenes set to film, right? It also shows wh... Read more » 1.1K 221   What is the best way to stay fit? Henry Paget, former Personal Trainer (2020-2022) • Answered February 6 I used to be a personal trainer, and I've been a fitness enthusiast for around 10 years. I've learned that most people's version of "Fit" is not fit at all. For example, if y... Read more » 928 117   What are ICBM crews supposed to do afterwards if they ever really have to launch their missiles? Don McMahon, former Retired Engineer, Lifelong musician • Answered February 17, 2023 I was an Operations Sergeant with Pershing Missiles (tactical, not strategic) in Germany during the Cold War. Pershing missiles had a much smaller payload than ICBMs, and t... Read more » 732 26   Why did Hitler have such hatred of the Jewish? Thomas Canfield • Answered January 25 Hitler dated his hatred of the Jews to the time when he was living on the streets of Vienna. Once he saw a group of Hasidic Jews walking down the sidewalk. Their appearance... Read more » 2.6K 654   Why do brown eggs cost more if there is no difference? Johanna Appelberg, worked in the egg industry in Sweden • Updated February 5 I've worked in the egg industry, sorting eggs coming out of the stables and checking on the hens. Thanks to that workplace, I've been around where both white and brown eggs... Read more » 920 101   How many cards must you draw? (probability puzzle) Alon Amit, Math puzzle enthusiast. • Updated February 24 The questions details: You have a standard deck of cards with the ace of spades on the bottom of the deck. Taking a card from the top of the deck, put it back at a random po... Read more » 106 20   What screams "I never properly learned to program"? Nikolaj Lepka, Software Developer (2014-present) • Answered November 6 I remember one time when I was working a C# gig at a large consultancy, I ran into this gem: private bool IsCharDigit(char input) { switch (input)... Read more » 415 60 Read more in your feed

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Yes. My husband's niece's husband. I have never been able to put my finger on it, but something about him bothered me. He finally showed his true colors when he loosened the hub caps on her son…

Top stories for Long   Have you ever met someone who seemed nice and normal but there was just something about them that didn't seem right? Asked in Human Psychology Facts • Answered by Clairetta Anderson • January 23 Yes. My husband's niece's husband. I have never been able to put my finger on it, but something about him bothered me. He finally showed his true colors when he loosened the... Read more » 3.4K 64   It took Apollo 3 days to get to Moon, they're talking about Artemis taking over a week to get there now, with obviously weaker rockets. What would be necessary to get to the Moon in only 1 day? Marcelo Pacheco, SpaceX fan, follows every news and every launch about SpaceX. • Answered January 11 The reason for the 3 day transit to the Moon by Apollo was so they didn't arrive at the Moon too fast. They wanted to arrive at the moon in a free return trajectory. Using t... Read more » 1.9K 81   If the four assassinated USA presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy) received their mortal wounds today, would medical science be able to save them? Ron Meyers, MA History (2013) • Answered August 18, 2025 McKinley would have probably survived with today's medical science- he was shot in the belly. Garfied almost probably would have survived… Garfield died from his doctors' di... Read more » 5.9K 394   Could the F-14 Tomcat be produced again? George Gassmann, studied at Illinois State University • Answered November 22, 2017 The tooling for the F14 ended up in a very large warehouse in Granite City IL which was next to the warehouse that housed the tooling for the F4 Phantom. Because the Navy w... Read more » 447 46   Is it true that if illegals are not counted, the Democrats would lose 10 House seats? How can illegals be counted in population when they are not legally in America? Old Lady Number Cruncher, I've been on the financial side of the book publishing business for 25+ years • Answered December 30 Every state gets at least one seat in the House. Past that point, each seat represents about 750,000 people. Here are the numbers of illegal immigrants in each state, per Pe... Read more » 1.7K 604   What would horrify a French guy visiting America? Thomas L. Johnson, Have spent over five decades studying Europe and Europeans. • Updated February 21 I was enjoying a wonderful meal in Minnesota with three visitors from Brittany when something happened that horrified my French guests. In the same anteroom where we were s... Read more » 2.4K 337   In Australia, there is a road called the Hume highway, connecting Melbourne and Sydney. It's 2000km long and has a speed limit of 20km/h, with hidden speed cameras every metre. Do people find this hard to believe? Robert Folkes, lived in Sydney, Australia (1988-2003) • Updated February 21 OP in Australia, there is a road called the Hume highway, connecting Melbourne and Sydney. It's 2000km long and has a speed limit of 20km/h, with hidden speed cameras every... Read more » 1.6K 224   What is the Infinite Mermaid Paradox (IMP)? David Joyce, Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania (1979) • Updated December 29 It seems to be another version of the Littlewood paradox. Littlewood mentioned it in his book A Mathematician's Miscellany of 1953. It's online at the Internet Archive. From... Read more » 101 53   Canada claims to have a large amount of electricity made by hydro power. Since Canada is frozen up to 6 months every year, what do they do for power when all the rivers are frozen? Raspenberry, former various endeavours. • Answered January 30 Hmmm, I recall one winter many years ago, when I was a teenager, living in a small town in Ontario Canada and we spent hours tramping through the countryside on a community... Read more » 3.3K 406   What terrible movie was saved by a single actor's performance? Corey Collins • Updated February 14 Although I can't honestly say he saved it. As seemingly nothing could save it. This movie was ill-conceived on every level. And when the film is named you're gonna go, oh y... Read more » 1.6K 198   THE IMPOSSIBLE MEGALITHS OF YANGSHAN QUARRY Alessandro13 • Posted Sep 1, 2024 If there is a place on Earth where you can question that the buildings belong to our civilization, this is definitely the Yangshan Quarry, in China. … As you can see from the images, the mysterious m... Read more » 312 35   What secret did your parents hide that you only found out after they died? Asked in Ask Buddy💕 Welcome • Answered by Rebecca Byrd Arthur • November 19 After my mother died in 2015, my son and my brother went through the little safe where my parents kept papers. They were looking for the cemetery plot info. My Dad and I we... Read more » 3K 244 Read more in your feed

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