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I’m curious to see if NRIs just invest some fun money of their portfolio to Indian funds or do you really put a significant part of your portfolio invested in India, in other words if you have 70% stock allocation portfolio and may be 90% of it is VOO. Would you trust this platform to invest a significant part of your net worth over Vanguard.

Fun money the way in describing is an extremely small part of your portfolio which you don’t mind doing away with should it tank.

As an Indian living outside it’s great to see us doing well as a group. I think this comes from traditionally Indian families and parents putting extensive focus on getting skilled and educated as the focus of bringing their children up.

For non-Indian folks, a few interesting movies to watch that go into this aspect of the culture l: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_30_(film)

This cultural phenomenon is not unique to Indians though, it’s also seen in China and may be other countries in Asia that I’m missing.

I’m also a little surprised by some of the comments here, I would expect comments on hackernews to be intellectually stimulating and balanced arguments that are atleast with some effort removed of personal biases. Some examples of biases that I see — lumping Indians as a group or general human tendencies quoted as exclusive to Indians such preferring your group over others (in-group out of group mentality)

On the flip side though, I’m not much surprised. As the under developed countries industrialize they’re taking back what has been historically their share of the world GDP. And as a result a larger Indian influence is visible and likely to grow as the Indian economy continues to grow. I think some folks should find it in themselves to reconcile the changing world around us.

The statement is only interesting when you consider a sizeable population who regularly drank the % alcohol and lived to 96. It’s a classic case of selection bias

The question can be split into the user experience for developers vs the business parts of the process. I don’t think the 2 can be entirely divorced while thinking of what makes software good. Good engineers would want their software to be well crafted but it’s always a trade off between how you’re delivering value to business by making it work right for your users vs making it right for developers. A good software strikes a balance between the 2 in a way the delivers business value while not killing developer productivity in the long run.

Then there are aspects that are related to code. In those terms code that is consistent (follows team agreed definitions on naming conventions, code formatting, styling etc), APIs that are guaranteed with well written tests so that developers can develop with confidence, has good infrastructure for common idioms such that the developers mental burden is taken off of the how to do and focused on what to do are the things that come to my mind.

5 hours a week is barely getting any work done at all and falls in the category of slacking. I’m surprised how this work ethic can survive and yet get promoted/rewarded. I have come across cases like the OP and have seen them either being fired or see good developers leave because bad work ethic is rewarded the same as developers with good work ethic and people who get things done and make progress are treated the same as slackers.

I believe it depends on how you look at work. The higher you climb the career ladder the more responsibilities you get. Everyday is an opportunity to make some progress — get something done, move forward, show up and make progress. Some days you are at the best of your mental capacity and some days you are not. It’s important to recognize those days and focus on low hanging fruits on low mental capacity days vs getting high value work done on good days. Managing yourself is a part of your job that’s not in the job description.

As a professional, it’s my responsibility to get my part done and make progress everyday. Things add up over long time. Similarly not getting work done does the opposite, let’s lot of backlog pile up.

If slacking is the result of procrastination or lack of attention or lack of motivation, I recommend people get help.

Imagine calling customer service rep and they just work 5 hours a week and imagine them responding to your requests a week or month from now. Imagine everyone working like this, society won’t function. Not doing your part for what you’re getting paid for seems unethical to me personally.