I am American, not anywhere near SV. I have never seen a Macbook at work either. There was one guy a few years ago who seemed a bit SV-influenced, and he had st

I am American, not anywhere near SV. I have never seen a Macbook at work either. There was one guy a few years ago who seemed a bit SV-influenced, and he had stickers, though it was a Windows laptop like everyone else. But yes, oftentimes HN (or an article it links to) uses "developer" to mean "SV web developer".