That's great except the OP will never get your apology since you replied to yourself instead of him.

"But since there's no "earth" at the north pole, the correct answer is obviously the south pole."

That isn't correct at all. First of all, you can't walk south from the South Pole, but that doesn't even matter because:

He says the surface of the Earth. He doesn't say what that surface is made of (i.e. Ice works), or even in what millennium you are walking in (see also Plate tectonics )

It's certainly some point near the South Pole, since the North Pole hasn't got any earth.

That would seem to be a problem, but is it as insurmountable as the fact that the South Pole doesn't have a South? (and anywhere near it would suggest many possible answers, none of which could be determined during an interview.) FTA:

You're standing on the surface of the Earth

He doesn't say what that surface is composed of, and I'm willing to bet that it is not that kind of trick question, since that would be a stupid way to asses someone's intellectual prowess to say the least.

Close! The correct answer is I'm dead, because I was an idiot who tried to walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north at the North Pole.

Wow. You really are a frigging moron.

Slow on the uptake are we? Most trees changed. It is a different forest. I really would love to send you back to the 60s so you could see how stupid you sound making a different claim.

I was a VAX/VMS Systems manager in the early 1990s, and no, that is not true. For christ sake there was no www and Ethernet was based on Coaxial Cable, with UTP just coming to market, and nobody was transferring complete OS images from machine to machine and running and stopping them on the fly. Period.

I didn't know they had HTTPS in the 60s! I stand corrected!

You make a great point! If I say I am a potato, not a man, then it is indisputable that I am a potato!

But I bet they know what Pedantry means! (You clearly don't)

So we are in agreement then that there is no insult to Visual Studio. Claiming there is is like claiming that saying "You might not like to drive your Porsche in beach sand, as it was not designed for that" is an insult to Porsche. What kind of idiot thinks that is a put down of VS?

I have bad news for you bud. Unless 80% of the programmers you know are incompetent, you and your brethren are classic examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

"Really? You must not do much real-world programming then. "

If anyone had any doubt they need only look at that statement. No competent programmer is so lacking in logical facility that they would draw that conclusion. Period.

"Basically, your assumption smells like the shit hole you crapped it out of."

That smell is your breath. Later, moron.

You seem to mistakenly believe that you are saying something different than what I said.You just re-iterated my point. Thanks!

You must have read the wrong article. The one linked to in the summary mentions Vsual Studio no less than 21 times, and always in a way that is positive. Show me a single insult. I couldn't find it.

I didn't pick up on it at first, but CTRL-Femacs and CRTL-Fvim both show no instances of either. Eclipse is mentioned, but M$ Visual Suck is mentioned in the same very small paragraph. How many times is M$ Visual Suck mentioned you ask? 21 times! Again, that M$ garbage 22 times, emacs and vim not once. Yep, it's an M$ ad.