[khelus]

Unfortunately in the fast-changing world of modern technical commerce, that tends not to be the experience of employers—which is why it is harder for a 40 or 50+ programmer or engineer to find a new job.

To what does that refer?.

[9YearLurker]

That the older the techie the better.

[9YearLurker]

Indians have the second lowest level of food stamp use of any immigrant nationality (only those from the UK are lower):

http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011

I understand that someone you’ve worked with has chapped your hide by bringing over his parents and accessing some sort of federal mortgage program, but believe me, overall and statistically Indians actually are about as close to a “model minority” immigrant group as you can find. For example, they’ve definitely started and built more large and successful tech firms here than any other immigrant group.