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by diezge 3772 days ago
> What, every developer? You really live in a bubble - get out and meet more.

Not all of them run OS X, but yep - the devices are reliable, last for a very long time and do the job well.

> Yeah, because there's absolutely no status signalling with Apple products.

Most people I know with iPhones are just regular people. I used to be an Android user (and will never hate on it) but most Western tech people with them are like the poster above - smug with an unfounded sense of superiority.
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vacri 3772 days ago
Keep on changing your tune. Every developer you know uses a macbook pro because they don't want to set up a linux distro, but not all of those macbook pros are running OSX? What are the non-OSX macbook pros running? ^BSD? Just as much fiddling as linux. Windows? Now that is a rare creature.

> most [broad demographic] are [negative attribute]

Sure they are. At least the GP openly recognises that they might be projecting.

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dagw 3772 days ago
Windows? Now that is a rare creature.

Not in my experience. At most .Net/Windows dev events I've been to Macbooks running windows are hardly uncommon.

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vacri 3771 days ago
I stand corrected, though I imagine if the parent moved in those circles, there'd be more than a few non-macbooks in sight.
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diezge 3772 days ago
> Keep on changing your tune. Every developer you know uses a macbook pro because they don't want to set up a linux distro, but not all of those macbook pros are running OSX?

That's reaching - you know full well I wasn't talking about distros like Ubuntu, hence the 'no one has heard of' part.

> Sure they are. At least the GP openly recognises that they might be projecting.

Projecting their l33tness, which literally no one cares about or wants to here. Simplicity is better, there is nothing inferior about something being simple.

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josteink 3771 days ago
> Projecting their l33tness, which literally no one cares about or wants to here.

On the contrary: I showed that the original author of the submission was projecting the main premesis of his article.

And I showed how subjective projection is absolutely meaningless at any scale above yourself, by sharing my own projection of the same thing.

Basically how this was an utter rubbish article.

I think it was quite successful and absolutely demonstrated my point beyond my wildest expectations.

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