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Note to all audience members, everywhere...
Avoid cultural slams when questioning a presenter, even if unintentional.
"I have an issue with your use of the word 'concerns' here... you're using it to indicate only undesirable traits of a system, which flies in the face of 30 years of software engineering nomenclature. It's not like we can just segregate off the undesirables. I mean, some societies do, but..."
[awkward pause and silence]
Yup, the presenter was Indian.
"I have an issue with your use of the word 'concerns' here... you're using it to indicate only undesirable traits of a system, which flies in the face of 30 years of software engineering nomenclature. It's not like we can just segregate off the undesirables. I mean, some societies do, but..."
[awkward pause and silence]
Yup, the presenter was Indian.