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The bad "Indian code" is what the client is paying for. If you pay 1/10th of American salary to recruit developers in India who are at the bottom of the stack in terms of competency, what are you expecting?. Everything is magnified in India because of the population. We have bad coders to CEOs of American corporations.

But this works as well. Thats why TCS, Infosys, etc are billionaire dollar enterprises.


Outsourcing companies in Ukraine or Russia don't have the same problem.


That is not because Ukraine and Russia don't have bad (hence cheap) IT staff.

It has more to do with IT resources from India generally tend to be the sweet spot of cheap enough and good enough (for a cheapskate, penny foolish myopic offshoring companies) resources.


Hm. I can get a competent developer from Russia for $1000 a month plus taxes; how much does that super-cheap Indian developer cost?


A competent IT developer / analyst can be hired for about 450 - 600 GBP per day. Run of the mill, hit or miss offshore resources provided by TCS / Infosys etc are usually billed at 150 - 300 GBP per day.


I would disagree. I've worked on legacy products created by Eastern European engineers that were absolute nightmares.


Hey, will Lifesum sponsor visa for an international candidate?


I think we can help with that sort of stuff, but I don't have all the knowledge actually. Throw me an email if you'd like and I can get you in touch with our HR person.


I have found prices varying a lot between sellers in flipkart. And flipkart most of time shows its own seller(WS Retail)'s price. So such a feature will be nice.


I read a Quora post by a Flipkart employee who said that the seller chosen on the home page is often the most trusted seller. I doubt if people would buy from sellers with lower ratings. Nonetheless, a feature to consider all sellers before notifying prices would be nice.


Boy its not a smaller country. It will explode some day with people.


Mine: replacing business cards


At some point I had the idea for an RFID bracelet. Ideally, it would be targeted to trade shows. I went to one previously the best tech they had was these cards that you had to go and manually scan at each booth.

Anyhow, the idea was that each bracelet would have an RFID card, and an RFID reader. When you shook hands with someone, it would read their ID #. So, you're not only physically meeting someone, but logging them as someone you met. When you got back to your hotel that night, you plug it into your computer and it pulls up everyone's bio (picture, name, company, email address, etc).


Hmm, sounds like an iteration of Bump, but for NFC-enabled smart watches...


with what?


To all those people who are complaining about stalking:

If the girl and the engineers have no complain about each other, who the fuck are you to decide?


why will someone put a webapp on a appstore?


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