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Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers
- iamdave 16y agoI have a favor to ask: Can we please stop using the word 'hip' to describe anyone youthful who is in any capacity, aware of what's going on around them? It's getting as bad as the words 'hipster' and 'yuppie' and says about as much about the person as does the term 'rockstar'. I don't know if 'hip' is anything you'd use to describe a computer science student, not that there's anything wrong with that.
- vyrotek 16y agoMaybe being a hip developer is like the 'cool kid' crowd from school. We do seem to poke fun and question people when they use X technology over Y because its not what the cool kids use.
- vyrotek 16y agoI'm not sure what it means to be a 'hip developers' but it was interesting to read this and think about my current startup. My co-founder and I have been .Net developers for a few years and when we decided to finally make the jump and work full-time on our startup we decided to use a Microsoft stack for almost everything. We love C# and the VisualStudio. It has definitely raise a few eyebrows with investors and advisors though. I guess I should figure out at what point did Microsoft brainwash me or something. I write this comment wearing a Windows 7 shirt and I don't work for them or anything. But I wish I did.