Re:The $80 web development workstation
by cenhyperion on Sunday August 25, 2013 @02:03AM
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>The "de facto standard?" This view is probably common among programming hipsters but its hard to take seriously.
I didn't realize the entire web developer community was comprised of only "hipsters", whatever that word even means now.
Re:The $80 web development workstation
by dinkumthinkum on Sunday August 25, 2013 @02:51PM
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Certainly not, but people that hold onto these kind of views are ... It's hard to deny the existence of this "culture" that has popped up that seems to dominate the conversations.
Saying that if you use a Mac, you're obviously a hipster is just fucking stupid.
MacBooks are good laptops. I like them. Using and liking a MacBook doesn't make you a hipster, nor does it make you any less of a "serious programmer".
The "de facto standard?" This view is probably common among programming hipsters but its hard to take seriously. There is a world out there besides Apple and RoR that is not just enterprise slog ...
As far as the $80 machine ... I mean ok ... If you are on a serious budget but ... If you are a technologist, I don't see the point. But it is cool to note that for those of us that need it, there are good machines at economical prices.
But if we all want to be serious programmers, can we move on from this hipster phase? The funny thing is the Apple is 100% not in line with supposed precepts taken as "de facto" in the hipster community (open source, over preoccupation with github, standards, open, portable, etc)