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by codegeek 939 days ago
Good to see responses like these. The only correct answer in my opinion.
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There is nothing correct or incorrect about preferences.

You choose industries as a matter of preference, too.

Is it correct or incorrect to work in healthcare?

Preference is not the same thing as "I wont take the job if you do Windows" etc. We all prefer things of course. I prefer Macs for example. But will I refuse a job because it uses Windows ? Naah. I will look at everything else that is more important to me which are the team, the work, the goals, whats in it for me, do I see a career path here etc.
> I will look at everything else that is more important to me which are the team, the work, the goals, whats in it for me, do I see a career path here etc.

Those are all more important to me as well. But I am so privileged that I get to choose jobs with tooling that aligns philosophically with me.

Typed programming, colleagues who really care about precise domain modelling, a high degree of automation, pervasively embedded in both the development environment and the production environment, both being Unices.

A part of that includes picking a non-laggy operating system that doesn’t feed me ads and NASDAQ prices in my toolbar, dark patterns to coerce me into using their inferior alternatives, and a feeling that I’m a guest in my own system.

As a consequence, I am happier and more productive.

I realise many may feel exactly like this with a Microsoft stack. The subjectivity here is what makes it a preference.

That is the same thing as preferences. Different things are important to different people, these are preferences by definition.