Note to all audience members, everywhere...

[kickaha]

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.

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I *almost* felt sorry for the poor bastard, but he was That Obnoxious Questioner at every talk we were both at. The one guy that always has to come up with some criticism, no matter how inane.

I think he's just highly social awkward, and has zero filters.