I am from London and girls think that web development is pretty cool on the whole. There are now quite a lot of young devs that don't fit the typical geek profile whilst still being geeky about code. I guess it's about how you come across, but there is certainly less stigma associated with it. Of course that depends on what kind of development too.

I used Hungarian notation in C++ all the time as it is close to the machine and so things like pAddress and ppAddress and dwAddress and lpdwAddress and wAddress, or sStructure and tTypedef etc are very useful distinctions. With higher level languages I tend not to annotate strings, and booleans are usually posed as a question like hasLoaded, isUserFemale. Though annotations to suggest private / protected variables like the underscore (_) I still find useful. We don't often have to consider whether something is 16, 32, or 64bits long though, and we rarely access raw pointers so pAddress and ppAddress have less use, and sStructure and tTypedef are generally just full classes at the detriment to performance. Also we use var a lot and let the compiler define the type so this is another factor. The next factor is the IDE, if the solution is fully integrated like in MS Visual Studio then you can easily go to the definition or hover over the variable so it is less necessary. Though as you say C&P'ing snippets elsewhere and you won't always know what they are though you can usually guess primitives and anything complex you will need the class/structure/typedef anyway. So I would say - carry on for C/C++, ASM etc but for higher level language where vars are often chosen at compile or even runtime then sometimes it is ok to leave it out.

One acronym: WPF