What are the most technically hip companies in NYC?

What is hip? For VC, it's git or hg. Never svn or (hurk) some commercial relic.

What is hip? On the JVM, it's Scala or Clojure or maybe a friend. And only the minimum Java needed to make that fly.

What is hip? It's C++ in just the spots where it's absolutely necessary. Not everywhere because it's the default hammer.

What is hip? On the front end, it's standards, sometimes even if it's just whatever Chrome does. It's never Flash.

What is hip? On the back end, it's Linux all the way. (Okay, BSDs are old school but passably cool.)

What is hip? For databases, SQL, NoSQL, it's all cool, as long as it's not proprietary.

What is hip? It's plain text, markdown, markup, even PDFs. But never Word.

What is hip? It's writing code like you really care about the reader. Code that's art. Code with style. Code that looks like it came from The Book.

What is hip? Hip is delight when someone shows you a better way than what you knew.

What is hip? Hipness is.