> I'm not asking why people aren't as smart as I am.
Not directly, but you are being condescending to someone who has legitimate issues. Just because someone is on HN doesn't mean they are great with linux, or that they are even a technical person. Maybe he's got a different skillset, and doesn't like dicking around with shitty config files, obscure error messages, and jerks that tell them they should be "embarrassed" for not being omniscient.
Can you tell me the best way to pull HE levels from a GE MRI's MM? If not, are you going to spend a lot of time looking it up just because? Why aren't you embarrassed that you don't know that?
> If I was interviewing someone for a role and asked them for their thougts on using linux and got "well I usually give up after a few hours trying to install it" I'd look elsewhere.
Depends on the role. If it was a linux-admin job, absolutely. If it was for a job in HR, then I wouldn't care at all.
Actually I would say that being on HN does mean that someone had a claim to be a technical person or in the tech industry, and that being able to install linux is now so easy and so common that it's more like the fizz-buzz test - if you can't do that we shouldn't even be talking.
Not directly, but you are being condescending to someone who has legitimate issues. Just because someone is on HN doesn't mean they are great with linux, or that they are even a technical person. Maybe he's got a different skillset, and doesn't like dicking around with shitty config files, obscure error messages, and jerks that tell them they should be "embarrassed" for not being omniscient.
Can you tell me the best way to pull HE levels from a GE MRI's MM? If not, are you going to spend a lot of time looking it up just because? Why aren't you embarrassed that you don't know that?
> If I was interviewing someone for a role and asked them for their thougts on using linux and got "well I usually give up after a few hours trying to install it" I'd look elsewhere.
Depends on the role. If it was a linux-admin job, absolutely. If it was for a job in HR, then I wouldn't care at all.