Worked graveyard myself for almost six years & completely agree with day-walker's rude outlook on people who sleep during the day.
Answering the door naked, shotgun over a shoulder helped make sure things got real quiet real fast.

As for automating shift-work - automation breaks.

Excuse me while I pass the link to this story to every Catholic that has ever told me "You're wrong" when I started explaining the exact same thing over 15 years ago.

Sorry, but you sound like you're computer-literate enough to use a simple touch-screen interface to perform a basic function.
However that puts you above-average in most communities.Thanks for playing the "We'll let the customers do the work for us!" game.
Join us next time for "Pick your own organic produce (Use rear door)"

P.S: I just finished a round of "Add your own HTML tags". Quite refreshing.

debug22,
Thank you for the response. It really sheds some light on the situation and I appreciate the first-hand experience you shared. Now I'm really curious about Canada - If it's so easy to get a green card, why aren't IT companies setting up support shops north of the U.S.A instead of directly importing people?

This constant back-and-forth with various agencies trying to hash-out visas here in the U.S. has always struck me as large waste of time and money for everyone involved...

I would think a thread like this on an IT-oriented site would drum up quite a bit of feedback from Indians that have migrated to America (under any circumstances). Though I share the same sentiments as many U.S.-based posters have (hate cleaning-up/debugging horrible code, dealing with people who hide their lack of comprehension behind a Yes-Man veil, etc), I'm curious how "the other half lives".

What drives someone in India to come to the US, rather than improving their situation at home?

What challenges did they have getting here?

How have they secured their stay?

I mean, I can surmise with the best of /. about the how's and why's -- But I think this thread is a great opportunity to "hear it from the horses mouth".

He's implying you're a drip-baby. *whoosh!*

Hell, *click* There you go.

We discussed this, Scrub. Grandma is particular about her flower-bed. Last week she took the newspaper kid's bike-tire clean off from 100 yards away...

The idea of having a GUI that eliminates typing errors, simplifies operations, logs the success or failure, and shows at a glance what configurations are set where is just so 21st century.

Yes, because creating a configuration file once and copying it to thousands of systems is just soooo haaarrrd.
Side-note: Linux has had front-ends/wizards/GUIs to create configuration files for a long time.

Well I've worked alongside Accenture for years, and if what you say is technically factual in the slightest that means that
a) You are as technically competent as your Indian peers
a) That standard of competency is not very high.

tl;dr Best to be thought a fool and say nothing, than to speak and remove all doubt

American here. They're called 'stereotypes' because the majority fit a given description. Live with it or go home.

No, it would be "Robot of Killing. Fund Where; Pls do the needful"

You take that back this instant, Mister! My tablet needs a command-prompt so bad I can TASTE it.

Is Garden of Eden Creation Kit taken?

Long touted as "the" Linux distribution for the desktop, but I just don't see it.
Just like any new distribution, when Ubuntu hit the streets I checked it out. Just the "mood" of the developers turned me off.
Let me clarify - I'm all for making things more user-friendly, and maybe I'm too old-school UNIX, but there's a difference between making something easier to use, and making it retard-proof.
When their forums became crowded with a hundred posts for the exact. Same. Problem. I warned my friends and family.
When the slew of Ubuntu-specific tools, GUIs, and How-Tos washed over the documentation. I distanced myself.
Now, with their community of perpetual noobs, their isolated walled-garden of features/docs/development, they finally think they've "locked-in" enough users to start this kind of nonesense.
Ad-Supported is just a spin-doctor's way of saying "Fuck You, GNU".