The post is an enjoyable one, but makes a couple of assumptions, one being that experience and coding ability are what get you hired. Sure, they help, and they'

The post is an enjoyable one, but makes a couple of assumptions, one being that experience and coding ability are what get you hired. Sure, they help, and they're a prerequisite, but showing up wearing the right clothes and having the right attitude might actually matter more. People who use OSX are more likely to be the kind of dev with the tidy beard and the square glasses and the decent shirt. Devs using Emacs in Linux are more likely to be the aneruotypical who doesn't look their interviewer in the eye. Both are more likely to be good coders, though, since you don't get taught Vim and Emacs in school, you have to pick it up through a non-school network or through self study and research. Eclipse is the kind of thing you use because your professor taught you Java and you never did any coding that wasn't for class. Sublime is the kind of thing you use if you just don't really care about your editor one way or the other. I'd be curious to know what kind of shop they are at TripleByte. Something tells me they might be Ruby coders using OSX all the time. Like attracts like, especially in interviews.