bhughes

The reason why people don't use Windows Phone is because they don't want to.

It's easy to say in a place like HN that there is a "social stigma" around using Windows, but for the average consumer this is clearly not the case. For a lot of typical desktop users, Windows is the computer ("reboot your Windows", "start up Windows", etc). Microsoft simply couldn't find a way to leverage that in the mobile space.

I don't know if it is a question of whether they are in or out of fashion. Some people can pull off pleats, but when they don't look good, they really don't look good. If someone is reading this primer, they are probably not in a position to tell which is which.

My standard answer to this, assuming I am starting out with a normal job-posting's worth of information, is "I don't know that I do want to work at X yet. That's one of the things I hope to figure out in this process." Said nicely, of course.

People forget that an interview is a dialog between two parties. As a candidate I am not trying to "win" by getting an offer; I am trying to find out if this is a place I actually want to work.

Except that prejudices aren't always developed so much as taught/learned. The standard trope that "the young folk get technology" is accepted as axiomatic, and passed down, regardless of actual experience.

Based on experience, I would agree with you on the Magento front (as my perpetually-in-the-planning-stages blog "I Hate Magento" will attest), but I have yet to find anything more usable (and customizable) for larger scale operations. I know there must be something less bad. Thoughts, anyone?

I seem to remember something like that as well.

However, writing down for your own benefit != telling someone else.

Is there something along these lines that has data for multiple open source projects? I think a lot of folks (myself included) would benefit from something that could provide some guidance, rather than randomly clicking around Github.