One of the general rules of decency for job talks that frequently gets violated is to ask questions that push the candidate within the scope/framework that the candidate has chosen. Instead, what frequently happens is this kind of question: "why didn't you do the project the way I would have done the project?"
Why am I talking about this? Because I am miffed. I have had a bit of a problem with Windows 10, which has been mostly good thus far. It tends to want to do things when I connect my phone. All I want to do is charge my phone and sometimes move some files around. I don't want to be asked repeatedly about W10 looking for files or wanting to set something up. I griped about it, and, inevitable as the sun coming up, someone said: get a mac.
My basic answer: fuck off. I have what I have, which ain't a mac. I need to fix what I have and not spend heaps on apple products. That is what my daughter is for. Oh, and me, too, with my ipad and ipod.
If someone complains while being on a Delta flight, telling them to use airline x is not of much help. Indeed, I use United, which gets a heap of abuse and rightly so. But it works for me plus heaps of path dependence.
So, the internet/twitter rule should be: help the person with what they have and don't evangelize about your favorite kind of system.
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