Wow, You are way beyond imagination.
It’s a fact, a bitter one. In my 20 years of experience at all levels, I have seen a single digit number of 100x engineers and none were Asians.
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Heard about him but don’t know him so no comments.
I know similar star Indian engineers but also know that they all grew and prospered under the shadows of a peer or leader who was white. That’s what Indians do best - they are outstanding supporting actors.
If Indians were really so good in writing original SW, India would have produced great SW products, but guess what :-).
Environment. Political environment was messy. Now that Modi is in charge, is changing fast.
Haha yes perhaps in some areas, business etc. But if you look for foundational SW developments in OS, DB, Cloud, Apps, Games, CAD, AI, Biotech, Quantum, etc., India has none, trust me. Indians are incapable of doing these by themselves.
You live in the past? Modi can’t change the past.
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Well lets hope for the best but no light at the end of the tunnel so far. Modi has been around for 7+ years.
Indians invented zero and decimal system in numbering. The sanskrit words for numbers are still use for counting in many languages. English has lot of words (or is a derivative of or common root with ) from Sanskrit. But, I have no problem in accepting the superiority of Whites in where ever they have excelled.
Plus, Bollywood is very popular outside India. And unlike the US passport holders, Indian passport holders do not have to worry in foreign land much. Most of the Bollywood plots dip from Indian epics and stories. It is a complex system of several Gods and Demi-Gods. I have locked horn with several right wing fundies who somehow trace roots of democracy in religious books of west.
Yes India achieved a lot long ago in stone age and perhaps peaked in 1000 B.C.
Bollywood is a joke. Indian clout in International affairs is a joke. India as of today is a 3rd world country with some hard working citizens but no loyalty to the country. The best leave the country and even they don’t come close to the whites in technological ingenuity and creativity - partly due to lack of focus and perseverance to excel in deep engineering fields and partly due to poor cultural values. Most Indian I know of wants to become a manager or leader and makes every career decision based on money. They have no dreams or deep passion except to make money and feel greater than others.
The sad truth is that India will remain 3rd world country for the foreseeable future.
This comment alone moves all of your remaining credibility. Have you worked at any of FAANG? Go look at their diversity report to see how many white vs asian working there, as well as, leadership position like Director and above.
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Btw, I am not indian nor chinese. But we were just having conversation about how many big tech leadership are Indians now a days.
Yes every Indian engineer wants to become managers and leaders and some are good at that. That was not the point. The point was that I have never seen a 100x Indian software developer. None. They are all followers and often very good at that.
India is a pretty independent country when it comes to dealing with its own affairs and the affairs of the rest of the world. That independent streak has always been there and exists even today. A country without long civilization past and with no understating of itself with respect to the rest of the world cannot largely remain independent. That is why your statement of India being a 3rd world country sounds so hollow.
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It’s an interesting question. How do you define 100x software engineers? Is it someone who can prototype and make a compelling product out of nothing? Is it someone who can write a perfect code in a short amount of time? Is it someone who can solve the hardest problem or issues? To me, 100x software engineers are those that made a biggest difference in the industry in terms of what they did and they may not belong to any of the categories mentioned above. You can arguably say Linus Torvalds, Doug Cutting, etc created $100 bil+ industries out of products they have laid the foundation on but they will never be classified as best “software coders” in the world. By the way, you’re right in a sense that those I listed above are white but they all tend to be older (50+) and to me, born in the right socioeconomic situation than most asian/indian. I think you will eventually find asian/indian who will create those industries or classified as 100x engineers just like many asian/indian mathematician and physicists have the last 30 years.
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There are thousands of 100x programmers. Very difficult to define them in a box. These programmers keep building things, for money or not; they have an obsession and they learn and keep learning and they have no limits and they can do things in ways that others cannot even imagine. They develop new languages, new frameworks, news operating systems, new games, new libraries, new platforms, ne apps and in ways that leads to ridiculous levels of efficiencies and beauty.
Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling, Linus Torvalds, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thomson, Don Knuth, Guido van Rossum, Brian Wilson Kernighan, John Skeet, Gennady Korotkevich, Jeff Dean, John Carmack, Rich Stallman, Petr Mitrechev, Fabrice Bellard, Doug Cutting, Adam DAngelo, etc.
The list is way too long.
If you see a common pattern - white males. Sorry without these people foundational software industry will not exist. That’s why there is no core software industry in India.
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Inventions are product of the environment. Lot of mechanical inventions from west are due to its environment. For example, no one has to worry about heating home in India as they are already living in very hospitable climate. The civilizations grow where there are plenty of food and water. Some one created tern Return on Effort. How much effort a person has to put every day to get food. Very little in countries like India as compared to say Greenland. That is why India has huge population mass and also a history of intellectual work. Solving mechanical problem like creation of steam engine or software is result of this relation with its environment. Not to belittle the contribution of the people you mentioned above. But, truly world has existed without software for 10,000 years. It makes no difference in life of most people.
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you have brought an interesting argument. Yes many of what you said is true but what do you mean by poor cultural value?