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I thought they hire them based on their choice of personal computers (sorry, couldn't resist)?

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html

I'm really curious what the HN's thoughts are about this. I didn't catch the discussion back when it might have happened on this board.

To my knowledge, it has never been submitted. Perhaps you should; I'm curious as well.

I think that article was pre-Win7, so it isn't really relevant anymore, except maybe in a specifically Ruby niche (which is fine for 37signals).

I can't say for sure because the post doesn't have date (day of year but no year). I wouldn't argue smart-aleck technical shibboleths with someone who can't display a date unambiguously without overflow rollover bugs.

Here is Jeff Atwood's response to that post dated Feb 2008, which gives you some idea about the date of the DHH post:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/douchebaggery.html

Turns out David was right, go to any open source focused conference and you will see everyone on an Apple computer.

In what way does Windows 7 change things?

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