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> and outside of sanfran's macbook-based hipster blogger circles. Man, this is a really tired trope. At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were ru

> and outside of sanfran's macbook-based hipster blogger circles. Man, this is a really tired trope. At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks (and pretty much 10/10 engineers under 40).

wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
at the last conference I attended, ~9/10 of the engineers were using thinkpads and latitudes personal examples are worthless because of the ridic small sample size
danford 12y ago
>At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks They're both tired tropes. There is a pretty reasonable mix of hardware and software run by 'engineers' and no where near 90% are macs. edit: https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496 https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496 That site has some pretty good statistics related to OS usage among programmers and some hardware usage, like iPod/iPhone, which I think is a decent indicator of whether or not these people own macs.
- vacri 12y ago
  I went to a security conference about a year ago, and not being a security guy, I was surprised to see about half the people using Windows. This being said, I am a little sad to see the prevalence of OSX-based laptops in 'hacker spaces', partly because I don't like Apple's practices, but mostly because diversity is one of the things that makes a hacker to me; the ability to make anything turn tricks. To see a monoculture starting to emerge is a little sad.
  - Pxtl 12y ago
    I tend to assume this has more to do with the piss-poor state of windows laptop manufacturers than with Apple. I'm sure those guys run Linux or Windows on their desktops, but seriously you expect them to put up with a heavy and crudware-riddled HP? A fragile Lenovo? A monstrously ugly MSI? A cheap Dell that falls apart the day the warranty runs out?
    - vacri 12y ago
      'Fragile' Lenovo? Using a cheap Dell as a comparator? Not trying to stack the deck there?
pjmlp 12y ago
It all depends to which conferences one goes to. If you attended a Games Developer Conference than it would be Windows everywhere, even on the MacBooks. Except maybe for the engineers that only do iOS games. On the other hand, it saddened me to attend FOSDEM and see people bashing Microsoft about OSS practices, while walking around with a MacBook running Mac OS X. Talk about dysfunctional behavior.
- blueskin_ 12y ago
  Don't make them think too hard about it or their head might explode.

wwwwwwwwww 12y ago

at the last conference I attended, ~9/10 of the engineers were using thinkpads and latitudes personal examples are worthless because of the ridic small sample size

danford 12y ago

>At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks They're both tired tropes. There is a pretty reasonable mix of hardware and software run by 'engineers' and no where near 90% are macs. edit: https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496 https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey#workspaces/2496 That site has some pretty good statistics related to OS usage among programmers and some hardware usage, like iPod/iPhone, which I think is a decent indicator of whether or not these people own macs.

vacri 12y ago
I went to a security conference about a year ago, and not being a security guy, I was surprised to see about half the people using Windows. This being said, I am a little sad to see the prevalence of OSX-based laptops in 'hacker spaces', partly because I don't like Apple's practices, but mostly because diversity is one of the things that makes a hacker to me; the ability to make anything turn tricks. To see a monoculture starting to emerge is a little sad.
- Pxtl 12y ago
  I tend to assume this has more to do with the piss-poor state of windows laptop manufacturers than with Apple. I'm sure those guys run Linux or Windows on their desktops, but seriously you expect them to put up with a heavy and crudware-riddled HP? A fragile Lenovo? A monstrously ugly MSI? A cheap Dell that falls apart the day the warranty runs out?
  - vacri 12y ago
    'Fragile' Lenovo? Using a cheap Dell as a comparator? Not trying to stack the deck there?

pjmlp 12y ago

It all depends to which conferences one goes to. If you attended a Games Developer Conference than it would be Windows everywhere, even on the MacBooks. Except maybe for the engineers that only do iOS games. On the other hand, it saddened me to attend FOSDEM and see people bashing Microsoft about OSS practices, while walking around with a MacBook running Mac OS X. Talk about dysfunctional behavior.

blueskin_ 12y ago
Don't make them think too hard about it or their head might explode.