![]() ![]() All through RailsConf 2006, I was reminded of Tim O’Reilly’s remarks in his 2002 WWDC keynote, Watching the “Alpha Geeks”: OS X and the Next Big Thing. It’s another interesting chapter in the rise of the Mac among the not-quite-mainstream programmer crowd, a trend that first became apparent during the first O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference back in 2002. If you don’t care enough about your tools to get the best, your burden of proof just got a lot heavier. I would have a hard time imagining hiring a programmer who was still on Windows for 37signals. I know a few that are still stuck in the rut for various reasons - none of them desire. While I can certainly understand the reasons why some people go with Linux, I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick Windows as their platform of choice. There’s the odd exception of Linux here and there, but the writing’s on the wall: OS X offers the best personal computing experience available today. It’s great to see that over the past few years it has become the norm, not the exception, that good programmers are wielding Macs. When my IBM Thinkpad’s hard disk died soon after, it became my only laptop.” What more do you need to know? I got a Powerbook at the end of last year. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. “All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs… The reason, of course, is OS X. ![]() Paul Graham is writing about the Mac adoption amongst hackers in general and his own return in particular: That’s no surprise, considering that Rails creator/figurehead/supermodel David Heinemeier Hansson is himself a Mac guy, as he writes in this article on his blog, Loud Thinking: While most Rails projects are eventually deployed as production apps on Linux-based servers, OS X is the preferred development environment for Rails geeks. Here’s a closer look - a video of a sea of Macs on developers’ laps: Note that every laptop in the shot, including that of conference organizer Chad Fowler (4th from left) and presenter Adam Keys (5th from right) - is a Mac: It of a group of attendees hanging out between sessions. Outside of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (and possible FOO and BarCamp), you normally don’t see this sort of Mac-PC ratio. BTC moving sideways on the daily chart.One of the first things I noticed at last year’s RailsConf conference was that Mac laptops far outnumbered PC laptops. You don’t need laser eyes or an NFT avatar to appreciate that.Īs of press time, $38,767 with a 1% profit in the last day and an 8.2% loss over the last week. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it’s currently our best shot at protecting. Hansson added:īut wherever this leads us next, it’s clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. ![]() massive surveillance program uncovered by former NSA consultant Edward Snowden. In that sense, Hansson called this moment in history a “wake-up call” comparable to the scandals around the U.S. Related Reading | Why Deutsche Bank Says Bitcoin Could Become The New Gold The seems to be a similar risk for these countries to adopt measures such as the was announced by the North American country jeopardizing the freedom of its citizens. The Basecamp Co-Founder asked if France, Austria, Denmark, or any country under a democratic government by extrapolation, is any different from Canada. In that way, it is potentially more difficult to dismiss the relevance of the latest developments, as Hansson said he himself has dismissed the importance of Bitcoin for people living in Venezuela, Iran, or other countries ruled by authoritarian leaders. However, Hansson also believes it is best for this “warning” to come out of “Trudeau in Canada and not Trump in America”. On social media platforms, users have been sharing old speeches, Tweets, and videos in which Canada’s Prime Minister talks about freedom and the “moral” obligations of a government. Hansson referred to the apparent improbability of the Trudeau-led government turning authoritarian. ![]() A Bitcoin Believer In The Making? The Power Of Decentralized Money And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto’s fundamental necessity in Western democracies. I still can’t believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. So Canadians who donated to the truckers should now sleep with one eye open for the next several months, lest they have their bank accounts frozen (…). ![]()
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