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suzzer99last Wednesday at 3:27 AM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, notoriously tech-averse software developers who hate tools that make their jobs easier.


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unsupp0rtedlast Wednesday at 1:37 PM

Yes, on HN they do, notoriously.

Until just a couple years ago I would regularly read comments complaining when a website doesn't work because the hacker browses with javascript disabled, for example.

This isn't the early-adopter crowd: it's the refuses to even be a late-adopter crowd.

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MattGaiserlast Wednesday at 5:01 AM

This cohort has always existed though. Users of Notepad and Vim still exist.

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