Hacker News Reader

Comment by scorpion032 | Hacker News Reader

“When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing in ten years. Almost all technology, from Unix to bitmapped displays to the Web, became popular first within CS departments and research labs, and gradually spread to the rest of the world.” - PG

I am saying you should rather already be using this now, than doing it later, given you'd be doing it anyway. (from PG, above.)

View on HN

I think you're incorrect to say that. You're recommendation makes no sense. You're saying 'hackers' should do what a mixed bag of 'developers' and 'designers' are doing now, because it's inevitable they will be anyway in ten years time, because 'PG' said so.

Picture it, self proclaimed 'hackers' all aping each other. All uniform, non distinct from the general population. What would then make them predictors of the future? There would be absolutely nothing unique about what they were doing.

I'm right in assuming at least half of these are designers and not developers. It's particularly doubtful that 'hackers' are going to swarm on to apple hardware over the next ten years given the mac tax and apple's propensity to lock it down.

The "should" use was meant for the general populace, those that adopt something, after the tipping point in a bell curve, to give a sneak peak into what hackers use today. - Not to hackers, who can themselves choose what they want and who form the initial part of the bell curve.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com