No one likes the condescending sneer of an officious computer nerd, impatient with anyone who lacks the god-given graces of their endless technical knowledge and intemperate enough to dare ask them a simple question. You know folks don’t you? It is their lack of people skills which drives everyone else to your door to ask you technology questions rather than submit themselves to ridicule and scorn.
On the other hand….it’s 2011. At what point is it fair to cross the field and join the other side? I’m not saying we have to get macs and lose our common sense of decency and politeness, but there are some tech questions that beg disdain. What the best approach here?