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apple's "expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion," as you call it, is now the de facto standard hacker machine, used by dhh, the inventor of ruby on rails, by p
by allenbrunson 18y ago
apple's "expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion," as you call it, is now the de facto standard hacker machine, used by dhh, the inventor of ruby on rails, by pg himself, and too many others to mention.
- unknownuser 18y agoyes, and those are "rich" people, much richer than the average consumer, especially when you take in account countries such as China or India.
- jrockway 18y agoThere are a lot of people using Macs, but there are also a lot of people using Linux and Windows.
- newt0311 18y agoAnd then there are the people who get macs for the hardware and replace OS X with some other unix variant.
- tx 18y agoYou're confusing Macs-the-hardware with UNIX they run. Yes, all hackers work on UNIX of some sort. And even then, OSX requires a quite a bit of work to get it up to Linux levels of hacker friendliness.
- allenbrunson 18y agodhh recently switched from a macbook pro to a macbook air. does that sound like somebody who's in it just for the unix underpinnings? i think not.