Nobody is talking about piracy.

To play games they own on other systems? To make official rereleases of old games, which now happens pretty often?

And that’s a much better answer!

“Because it would require changes” doesn’t answer OPs question. They want to know why wasn’t it done like this in the first place, and why aren’t we making the changes to make it happen now. Of course changing things would require changes.

It’s like answering a “why are stop lights red?” question with “It wouldn’t work because stop lights factories uses red bulbs and laws require them to be red”.

It’s a thought experiment. Of course such a stick wouldn’t exist. OP’s question is what laws of physics prevent this theoretical scenario from working.

Not you, you brought it up and I agree.

That’s a perverse sense of “productivity” then. I like spending my free time getting a lot done, but none of it is a “hustle” or an attempt at making money.

Working on my hobbies is fulfilling and makes me happy. If I like painting train models all weekend, who are you to argue against it? Doing nothing is boring and sad.

/usr/share? How is a random app getting write permissions to that?

Many great games wouldn’t be released without the current system giving them a chance. Shovelware is a problem, but I think it’s a fairer alternative.

1. But they aren’t “parroting the same lie”. Asking why are you interested in this job is the most basic way to learn more about the candidate. “I just want any job and applied to all postings I saw” is never going to be true for anyone, because no you didn’t, the same person doesn’t apply to be a civil engineer for roadside construction, restaurant chef, and computer animator.

You have filtered the job postings in some way, presumably by your skill set, and so you have some criteria or reason you applied to this company and not another. And that reason is not a lie for most people. They applied to be a restaurant chef because they know how to cook and that’s what they say, referring to their past experience.

2. No, why do you think so? This has nothing to do with having multiple offers.

surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesn’t care, the company would prefer the former.

Definitely.

And there we go, we’ve answered your original question of

WTF are you talking about??? Are you a real human??

You get what he’s taking about - it’s not about the money.

Not at all. The reason you’d choose to work at a particular company exists whether or not you have any other offers.

And loving the company is just creepy, that’s not what you should be showing. Your interviewer is probably your potential coworker, and they don’t want work with a bootlicker either.

Haha I know, but it illustrates the concept.

That’s a perfectly fine position to have, but surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesn’t care, the company would prefer the former. You don’t need to be interested, that’s ok, but if someone else is, then they will probably be easier to work with.

IoT flower pots? I could say “I noticed you use MQTT for networking the pots, I used it before for a hobby project of a multiplayer Scrabble game, it’s pretty cool tech. And I saw in the posting you want to move from Atmega32 to an ARM chip? What are your plans for the compiler toolchain?”

At no point did I mention I like flower pots or that I think they are a good idea. And yet I’ve shown I have previous experience, a desire to learn new skills, and turned the conversation around by asking a question. And I didn’t lie or “play a game”.

And if there is literally nothing interesting about the company, that’s fine, but then the company is probably not interested in you either. And there is nothing wrong with that.

That often works, when worded more positively. You will get an expedited hiring process, because the company doesn’t want to lose out to another company hiring you first.

Of course you need money, the interviewer knows that and isn’t asking about it.

They are asking why would you choose to work for this company over another. Imagine you got 3 job offers, and all are offering the same salary. You’d have to choose one offer to accept, and the interviewer wants to know why his company is the one you’d choose, because they’d prefer someone who is interested. What caught your eye about this job posting?

Source: Am the interviewer. Of course I wouldn’t word it like in the meme.

Linting rules and scripts should never live in an IDE-specific directory.

Of course they should. Obviously it shouldn’t be the only place they are, but committing IDE code styles settings that match the externally-enforced project styles is absolutely helpful.

Or, in our project we have a bunch of scripts that you can run manually, but we also have commited IntelliJ run configurations that make running them a convenient in-IDE action.

Which never happens yet everyone repeats it as if it’s a common occurrence.

I like the joke, but let’s not pretend this is something that happens.

You say that, but it applies to any store website, and yet most of them are abysmal.