For years I've followed a rule at work I never bothered to write down: when an engineer asks me a "weird" question, I don't answer the first version of it.
Wrote about this at lalitm.com/post/dont-an...
In my work on Perfetto, a performance debugging tool, one question I get often is: “how do I split a Perfetto trace into multiple files?” Instead of answering directly, I say: “there isn’t an easy way...
