[HN Gopher] Misbrands
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Misbrands
Author : 4684499
Score : 398 points
Date : 2021-12-24 10:30 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| smarx007 wrote:
| I felt bad that PHP and Django were unfairly left out in the RoR
| misbrand (well, Wordpress is written in PHP but that looked a bit
| remote), so I decided to fix that: https://imgur.com/a/quN1aEa.
| Now THAT should make someone's blood boil.
|
| (sorry for the aliasing, the font was taken from a screenshot)
| meepmorp wrote:
| I found the vim/vscode one especially obnoxious. OTOH, it took me
| a while to work out what was 'wrong' with the Debian/Ubuntu one.
| Maybe there's some unconscious biases at play.
| bichiliad wrote:
| I kinda like that these misbrands are all done in the style of
| a competing technology, or a misconception that would kinda
| bother people (like vim / vscode, rust / go, or angular /
| react).
| [deleted]
| logotype wrote:
| Never understood why people put stickers on their laptops, to me
| it seems like a cargo cult. Oh, you're using this trendy library?
| Are you a brogrammer or a programmer? Why is libraries and
| technologies trendy anyway, so much time has been wasted building
| something using the wrong tool for the job. It also ruins the
| design of the laptop, just like a phone case does. Maybe I'm just
| old.
| goodpoint wrote:
| I never use stickers from commercial projects or just because
| something is trendy.
|
| I have stickers from community projects that I actively
| contribute to or projects that are really meaningful to me and
| I support morally and financially.
|
| In limited amount and size not to be tacky...
|
| Many people apply the same logic to tattoos.
| GuB-42 wrote:
| The same argument can be made for tattoos. Why ruin the design
| of perfectly good skin? And not so long ago, it was the common
| opinion.
|
| Stickers are a way of expression. Sometimes, I don't like the
| idea being expressed, sometimes I do. Clean is fine too.
|
| Phone covers are usually for protection. And a reason I hate
| phones with a glass back (thankfully a dying trend). It is
| fragile, slippery, heavy and not structural, it only looks good
| in a store because people put on a case afterwards. Pre Galaxy
| S6, Samsung had the perfect back cover, made of light plastic,
| openable and replaceable, and in the case of the S5,
| waterproof. You may find it ugly, but under a protective case,
| you don't see it. In fact, they even sold cases that _replaced_
| the back cover.
| notsureaboutpg wrote:
| misnome wrote:
| It's a personal taste thing, like any other fashion. I prefer
| things clean on my laptop, but can see why people find it
| appealing.
| notsureaboutpg wrote:
| social_quotient wrote:
| I wonder how many log4j stickers are out there?
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| > just like a phone cover does.
|
| If the designers of the phone want to provide a reasonably
| priced cover that will hold my credit cards and protect the
| screen then perhaps they can make one that complements the
| device; and perhaps I'll buy it. Until then I'll have to make
| do with what the third party suppliers can deliver, there is no
| way I'm going to carry my mobile without having it in a case.
| darkwater wrote:
| The Xiaomi Mi 9 SE had exactly that
| sokoloff wrote:
| I switched to carrying my phones naked about 6 years ago and
| prefer it. It seems odd to prioritize buying a thin, light
| phone and then put it in an Otter Box. I buy them used right
| after the next one is released (when the first glut of used
| phones is available) and keep them for a few cycles. Worst
| damage I've done is to damage a volume down button on the XS
| Max I'm using right now.
| sangnoir wrote:
| > It seems odd to prioritize buying a thin, light phone and
| then put it in an Otter Box
|
| Not everyone _prioritizes_ buying thin phones, but it
| appears aesthetics is a big deal for you. I 'm your
| opposite: all I want to see when I'm using my phone is its
| screen. Having a case made out of soft material that can
| absorb energy when it is dropped (not "if") has saved it on
| multiple occasions at the cost of adding ~1mm to the
| thickness.
| lmarcos wrote:
| I put one on my work laptop to distinguish it from other
| colleague's laptops. Zero stickers on my personal laptop
| though.
| lvass wrote:
| I don't like them either but having one is definitely better
| than displaying the manufacturer logo. Far less obnoxious than
| advertising a product you had to pay for. I also never buy
| clothes with printed brand names and remove every single logo I
| can off my car.
| 1ris wrote:
| It's a way to express your opinion. Quite a lot of stuff on
| devlids.com is political. Like a bumper sticker or a t shirt.
| Althoug it probably is a "everybody posts, nobody reads"
| situation.
| toastal wrote:
| I've certainly used it as a conversation starter, just like
| wearing a band tee. I think there's something interesting to
| say as well about putting cheap stickers on a a super expensive
| laptop as a "see if I care" vibe like slapping a bumper sticker
| on a Lamborghini.
| [deleted]
| bootlooped wrote:
| The stickers don't have to be software related. My current ones
| are not.
| BuildTheRobots wrote:
| For me it's positive memories. Every time I pull my laptop out
| I'm greeted with a mash of events I've been proud to have been
| involved in and technologies I've done good things with - it's
| good motivation to continue to do good things. Same goes for
| every place I've glued the case back together (and frankly a
| lot of the scars on my body). It all reminds me of a story so
| why not collect the good ones.
| friedman23 wrote:
| The company I work for handed out stickers when I joined and I
| put my company logo sticker on the work laptop so that I don't
| confuse it with my personal one.
| jfim wrote:
| If everybody at work has the exact same laptop model, it allows
| distinguishing between laptops.
| cloverich wrote:
| Also at airports. I liked having no sticker then I was at an
| airport and at screening they gathered up four identical
| MacBooks and (non ironically) asked ok whose is this? Nobody
| knew and they had to start turning them all on.
| kenty wrote:
| This. The issue is that once you start and put one on your
| laptop, it's hard to stop.
| dkersten wrote:
| What's worse is the stickers will fade after a while and then
| just look bad. I used to put stickers on my laptops, but I
| stopped doing it a few years ago. I especially don't want to
| put a random company logo/brand on my laptop (as opposed to a
| library or programming language, which I'd be a little happier
| with, at least)
| thrwyoilarticle wrote:
| Because I have a free unblemished sticker and an unavoidable
| desire to reduce entropy in the universe. Gotta stick
| something.
| tupac_speedrap wrote:
| The JavaScript one is funny. To be honest they should have picked
| a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with
| Java.
| danuker wrote:
| JS is an accident of history, which nobody expected would catch
| on at this scale.
| masklinn wrote:
| > To be honest they should have picked a different name for
| JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java.
|
| It was marketing very much in cooperation with Sun.
|
| That's why JS has a C-style syntax: Netscape simultaneously
| looked at embedding Java and hired Eich to embed Scheme, which
| then morphed into a bespoke language with Java-inspired syntax
| but semantics closer to Scheme's.
| p_l wrote:
| It was done on purpose, and early on JVM was shipped with
| Netscape Navigator. The rebranding of LiveScript (iirc) to
| JavaScript was done to connect to the Java hype of the time.
| fortran77 wrote:
| It's like "Blockchain" today!
| rav wrote:
| It's like when Panel de Pon for the Super Famicon was
| rebranded and rereleased as Tetris Attack for the Super
| Nintendo. It has nothing to do with Tetris, but Tetris was
| a popular game at the time.
| jodrellblank wrote:
| How _did_ Sun manage to get so much hype around Java?
| DnDGrognard wrote:
| :-) I can remember the excitement at the time over Java.
|
| There was a massive Java event at the QE2 hall in London, I
| went to I still have the little metal pin of the Java Mascot
| from that event.
| Cullinet wrote:
| I don't remember that java script logo - it looks like a
| knock off of the Sunsoft Java trademark of the era, however.
| Does that image have any provenance? It looks like a
| professional imitation but I am seeing straight trade dress
| if not actual Langham Act infringement.
| atdrummond wrote:
| It's a parody logo and a straight copy of the Java logo, on
| purpose. The point is to ridicule the lack of legitimate
| connection between the two languages, as pointed out above
| thread.
| necovek wrote:
| GP was saying that "JavaScript" was named " _Java_ Script"
| on purpose to build of off Java's popularity at the time.
|
| Logos were never related (was there a JS logo at all?)
| nonesuchluck wrote:
| A bit later, it seems Netscape wanted to connect to the
| Visual Basic hype of the time: https://web.archive.org/web/19
| 971022101212if_/http://www101....
|
| I'm not sure if Visual JavaScript is archived at all:
| https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42968
| watersb wrote:
| That was the summer that MarcA publicly announced that
| Netscape would be a pure Java app by the end of the year.
|
| So one of the mainline JavaScript interpreters was written in
| Java, and the JavaScript could call out to that engine, so
| you could load Java plugins at runtime, extend the JavaScript
| interpreter.
|
| So you could say "Java" many times during the tech demo.
| Lealen wrote:
| Small part of history of JavaScript:
|
| >In 1995, after 10 days of work, Brendan Eich created a
| scripting language for browsers. He called it Mocha. The
| language was renamed several times over the course of just a
| couple of months, and was eventually given the name we know
| today, JavaScript. Brendan originally wanted to add support for
| the Schema programming language to the Netscape browser, but
| his superiors wanted the language available in their browser to
| be more like the then popular Java [1].
|
| [1] Freely based on a description from book and wikipedia:
|
| C. Saternos, ClientServer Web Apps with JavaScript and Java.
| O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2014.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
| satyrnein wrote:
| Small typo, he originally wanted to support _Scheme_. I
| wonder where if the typo was introduced in your comment, or
| in the book, or in Wikipedia at the time (which was since
| corrected)!
| skytreader wrote:
| When I saw that sticker, I immediately wanted to give it to
| this SEO consultant I worked with several years ago. We had a
| Python + Angular stack so among our first conversations went
| like:
|
| Him: Okay your biggest problem right now is that your website
| is written in Java.
|
| Me: Uhh...no...we use Python. Why is our choice of backend
| language a problem? (I honestly thought this involves a
| development in Google v. Oracle that I didn't know about.)
|
| Him: No, no. It's all in Java. Look...(he uses a tool that
| shows us what Googlebot sees).
|
| Me: Ah...Javascript.
|
| Him: Yes, Java.
|
| I instantly recognized the situation I was in so I didn't opt
| for pedantry. I adjusted accordingly but I kept using
| _Javascript_ on my side of the conversation. I dunno if he ever
| caught on to that or if someone ever corrected him but this has
| been some kind of inside joke in my engineering team at the
| time.
|
| I'm hoping if he has this on his laptop lid, it would serve as
| a "hobo sign" for future software engineers he might have to
| meet with. (Not to be mean on Christmas! He gave us competent
| advice, this issue aside.)
| Aeolun wrote:
| I'm really curious what good advice an SEO consultant that
| knows so little about his platform he cannot distinguish Java
| from Javascript can give.
|
| I would be immediately suspect of anything else they said or
| did.
| justbaker wrote:
| Sounds like he needs to consult some books and articles and
| get to that "I don't know what I'm talking about" moment.
| skytreader wrote:
| Man, this obnoxious HN arrogance again. And on Christmas
| Eve too. I specifically added that _Not to be mean part_
| because it 's simply not fair that people judge your
| competence based on an unflattering anecdote. But of
| course, here we are. :(
|
| Look here:
|
| - He was a consultant; not part of the team. It wasn't
| _his_ platform, strictly speaking.
|
| - That said, Java and JS was created 1995. Google was
| founded 1998. I'd give two or three years more before the
| term "SEO" even became a thing. And then a few more years
| before it became an established sub-industry. My point is,
| people working in a Web/IT field have been confusing Java
| and JS far before SEO's time. These people aren't
| programmers though they may have worked closely with
| programmers. Does that make them incompetent at their job?
|
| Marketing: Hey we want a tie-in with the release of the
| first Harry Potter film! (Good suggestion) Can Java make
| magic spell effects when people click on our website?
|
| Programmer: Heck no, dunce. First of all, you're thinking
| of Javascript. Second of all, even if we were a Java
| Applet, that would be difficult. Third of all, our website
| is basically in Flash so yes we can accomplish that with
| some ActionScript.
|
| - You know why these people can't distinguish Java from JS?
| _Because the distinction doesn 't matter for their job!_
| The job of an SEO consultant, in particular, is to _come up
| with a strategy_ ; this takes a lot of approaches, and
| technical execution is a small part of the pie. A lot of
| the companies they would work with won't even have
| dedicated engineers developing the platform.
|
| The point of the meeting I related, ICYMI, is that our
| website is basically "code not content" in the eyes of
| Googlebot so that needed to be addressed. It could've been
| spewing out Brainfuck and the point of the meeting stands.
|
| ----
|
| SEO is really a different kind of beast (I've talked about
| it here other times before). In that team I'm ready to
| admit that I, the guy who can distinguish between Java and
| Javascript, had the least impact; there was a low bar on
| the programming skills needed and I just happened to be the
| guy with nothing else on his plate then. I was a "fungible
| asset" as the cool kids would say nowadays. Shows you how
| little technical programming details matter for general
| SEO.
|
| And yet with that guy's strategy we achieved (and this goes
| on my resume):
|
| - from page nowhere of hyper-targeted keywords we made it
| to page 1 within a few months. Crept up in ranking slowly
| with marketing, not technical, strategy. Then from that
| content we managed to score in less-targeted keywords.
|
| - by the end of my tenure as the "Growth Hacker" we went
| from 200K users to past the 1M mark _with zero marketing ad
| spend_. (We were actually bleeding on ad spend with very
| little ROI that 's why they kickstarted the SEO
| initiative.) It was slow but steady, not the hockey-stick
| growth that would've pulled Sequoia Capital on board but
| enough for our investors.
|
| ----
|
| To be honest, this is one long comment too many than I
| planned today. But what can I do duty calls
| (https://xkcd.com/386/) even on holidays. Merry
| Christmas/Happy holidays and a fine new year HN community.
| I'm pulling myself off-duty for HN comments for the rest of
| the calendar year.
| justbaker wrote:
| > My point is, people working in a Web/IT field have been
| confusing Java and JS far before SEO's time. These people
| aren't programmers though they may have worked closely
| with programmers. Does that make them incompetent at
| their job?
|
| It's been around for nearly thirty years. It entirely
| matters if they are saying "your site has poor SEO
| because it uses Java" rather than "because it uses
| JavaScript". I'm glad you reinforced it without becoming
| arrogant or standoffish and seemed to meet your goal in
| working with him. I'm not sure I'd been able to do the
| same myself. Merry Christmas :)
| stayfrosty420 wrote:
| VScode one is the best by far
| rgoulter wrote:
| Reminds me of this joke:
| https://twitter.com/tpope/status/1172743697315835904
| albert_e wrote:
| no love for apache projects?
|
| once can go to town with all the frameworks in big data ecosystem
| anyfactor wrote:
| Someone should make one for the classic, "my other computer is
| your computer". God I hate that sticker.
| alanlammiman wrote:
| These should be NFTs.
| yiksanchan wrote:
| I visualize them in https://misbrands.vercel.app/
|
| Code: https://github.com/yiksanchan/misbrands
|
| Check it out!
| Aeolun wrote:
| Thank you for your public service. For some reason Github shows
| only half of the images on my mobile.
| zeeed wrote:
| Click (...) at the top right of the image, choose "view raw".
| Or use the URL above.
| yiksanchan wrote:
| Thanks for the kind words! Anything I can do to resolve your
| issue? Is there a way to reproduce?
| [deleted]
| nedp wrote:
| I don't know if it's just me by I would love to have these as
| t-shirts. I would buy them all in a heartbeat. Great for
| conversation starter or as a prank to my fellow CS friends lol
| markus_zhang wrote:
| Why do people hate Ubuntu and VSCode?
| oefnak wrote:
| The idea is that the image is from their counterparts: Debian
| and Vim.
| gnz11 wrote:
| Shouldn't the RoR sticker use the Django font?
| necovek wrote:
| I was guessing something PHP-related, but I couldn't guess
| Wordpress fwiw.
|
| Python/Ruby worlds generally have the "it's pretty much the
| same shit" attitude towards each others' ecosystem, so it
| wouldn't be exactly the same message :)
| MikusR wrote:
| The logos are funny, but where do people put those stickers?
| nix23 wrote:
| On servers, directly on the Hard-disk-cage-release....so you
| can be sure they are even more hated.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| Corporate power point presentations is the target audience.
| JauntyHatAngle wrote:
| Laptop lids are common for developers, especially in trendier
| companies.
| masklinn wrote:
| Bags as well, though you need pretty good (and / or small)
| stickers if you put them on a part which flexes a lot.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Since we're all just on video calls nowadays, maybe these
| apps should come with game streamer-style "add an image
| overlay" capability.
| mrweasel wrote:
| Our work laptops are are sold back to the sell after two to
| three years. They announced that this option would no longer
| be available to owners of MacBooks, if stickers are placed on
| the lids.
|
| Apparently the stickers leave a discolouring that cannot be
| removed.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Sold back to the what? I think our (and many other
| companies) consider laptops depreciated for tax purposes
| after around 3 years. Maybe they just give them to the next
| developer to join?
| mrweasel wrote:
| The company we buy our laptops from will buy them back
| for 50% of the original price after two years. That allow
| us to renew hardware a little cheaper.
|
| We never assign used hardware to new employees, well
| monitors are reused.
| necovek wrote:
| That's true of those "Intel inside" stickers as well (I've
| been removing them since early 2000s at least).
| presentation wrote:
| Can confirm, I did this and my old laptop is permanently
| discolored.
| presentation wrote:
| Can confirm, I did this and my old laptop is permanently
| discolored. Would recommend doing it with a case if you
| feel the need.
| skhr0680 wrote:
| Laptop lid
| stubish wrote:
| The troll in me says other people's laptop lids.
| [deleted]
| jacob019 wrote:
| on your snowboard
| alexnes wrote:
| adenozine wrote:
| Thanks, I hate it.
|
| The gopher ferris one is genius.
| southerntofu wrote:
| Not on the homepage logo, but i really loved the rusty gopher, or
| whatever this thing from hell should be called:
| https://github.com/mkrl/misbrands/blob/master/ferris.svg
| metaphor wrote:
| It's a _gopherris inepta_ , clearly.
| fiedzia wrote:
| There should be a Doom version with that thing.
| jamescun wrote:
| I'm sure somebody has a project to link Rust from Go, and are
| thrilled to have this as their project logo!
| tryauuum wrote:
| this thing just stares in my soul
|
| it's like a go's gopher but smaller and more dangerous
| namibj wrote:
| It's called "gorris".
|
| Edit: there's also the inverse, called "fepher".
| Hippocrates wrote:
| This could get somebody hurt.
| specialist wrote:
| I used to want to personalize my laptops. Due to same vague
| notion it'd reduce confusion in the office. (Which proved to not
| be a problem.)
|
| Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo".
|
| I haven't liked any of the cases I've tried. Among other
| problems, accumulation of grit and scuz.
|
| I once tried that spray rubber stuff (on an old sacrificial
| laptop). PlastiDip? Didn't work well. I'm dumb about this stuff.
| Someone with more experience could probably make it "nice". I
| plugged stuff into the ports I cared about. Then tried to tidy
| all the edges with an exacto knife. Looked terrible.
|
| You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting someone to
| do that for laptops.
| mabbo wrote:
| > You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting
| someone to do that for laptops.
|
| I had one of those in like 2006. There was a website where I
| gave my laptop model, uploaded the image I wanted, and they
| mailed me a perfectly sized sticker that covered my entire
| laptop back.
|
| I made one real one, and a "Three Wolf Moon" one for fun.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| Ever though about printing your initials in a sticker?
| detaro wrote:
| > _Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo"._
|
| I personally use generic stickers from random sticker packs,
| since I also don't like the product or political stuff (well,
| work laptop can have employers product if there's nice stickers
| for that). E.g. the laptop I'm typing this on has a small bird
| sticker in one corner.
|
| > _You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting
| someone to do that for laptops._
|
| "Laptop skins" is the keyword for that.
| awestroke wrote:
| dbrand sells vinyl "skins" for laptops and phones
| rexreed wrote:
| No need for plastidip, and no need to apply directly to the
| laptop.
|
| I got these transparent covers for my Mac:
| https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0009/5354/8852/products/cm...
|
| Then I made a custom vinyl skin from DecalGirl that was applied
| to the top transparent cover :
| https://www.decalgirl.com/skins/laptops/apple
|
| Problem solved. Now I have a laptop "wrap" that isn't
| permanently or semi-permanently attached to the machine.
|
| DecalGirl has a bunch of other laptop skins as well for Dell,
| HP, Acer etc: https://www.decalgirl.com/skins/laptops
| lvncelot wrote:
| >You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting someone
| to do that for laptops.
|
| Sounds like something dbrand[1] does.
|
| [1]https://dbrand.com/shop/dell-xps-13-skins-9380
| omnicognate wrote:
| I get a couple of these and the logos involved in most of the
| others are familiar but I can't remember enough to figure them
| out.
|
| Is there an explanation anywhere, or is someone willing to
| provide one?
| rohanprabhu wrote:
| ferris.svg - The rust mascot crab (called "ferris") with the
| face and color of Gopher (the golang mascot)
|
| github.svg - GitHub in a Gitlab styled logo
|
| javascript.svg - JavaScript written in a Java-styled font + the
| Java logo (Sun/Oracle)
|
| pip.svg - Pip (the python package manager) styled in the npm
| logo style (node.js package manager)
|
| rails.svg - Ruby on Rails with pretty much the rails logo, but
| in the color of WordPress. Also the "RubyOn Rails" text theming
| is in the style of the WordPress logo typography
|
| react.svg - ReactJS in a the Angular logo, including the font
| style
|
| rust.svg - (this one was truly painful, personally :P) "Rust"
| (the language) displayed in the node.js logo font styling,
| including colors
|
| ubuntu.svg - "Ubunutu" styled in the debian (linux
| distribution) font styling, along with the debian logo. This
| one specifically, is where the hybrid feels the most accurate
| since Ubuntu is a debian-based linux distro, but I do believe
| the communities don't get along very well (or at least that's
| the running joke)
|
| vscode.svg - VS Code (Visual Studio Code, the IDE/Text Editor)
| displayed in the "Vim" logo font styling and the logo with the
| stylized "V"
| smarx007 wrote:
| Thank you! Could not figure out Rails, was thinking about
| Django, Laravel but didn't think of Wordpress. I think
| (Django) with a PHP-like oval background would have been
| funnier.
| mgaunard wrote:
| I thought the Rust one might have been trying to look similar
| to the C++ logo, but the node font looks like a better match.
| necovek wrote:
| Thanks: I couldn't figure out the Rust one thought the font
| was indeed _very_ familiar, or the Ruby on rails thing
| (looked familiar too).
|
| FWIW, I wouldn't say Ubuntu/Debian communities don't get
| along well, Ubuntu is officially built on top of Debian (it
| imports packages from Debian unstable archive verbatim for
| majority of its archive), and many Ubuntu devs are Debian
| devs too. There are certainly some Debian devs who have held
| a grudge for Ubuntu becoming more popular by focusing on
| better integrating a subset of packages in the Debian
| archive, but I think we are waaaay past that.
| omnicognate wrote:
| Thanks!
| opk wrote:
| It has always irked me that the oh my zsh logo uses a bash style
| `$` prompt.
| numlock86 wrote:
| Being in a work environment where quite a lot of people have
| stickers on their laptop lids I am pretty confident you'd have to
| actively point at it and be like "See? That's the joke." for
| someone to even notice it because people just don't pay that much
| attention to it. It's too subtile, but I get that's the point.
| citeguised wrote:
| This would be a fun game. Take some heavier stickered entries
| from DevLids.com, Photoshop some of those misbrands-stickers,
| and let people guess the "fake" ones.
| 1ris wrote:
| But there are already plenty of these there. It full of
| these, I'd say. I saw on the first page:
| -Github styled as Pornhub (multiple times) -HDL styled
| as DHL -Github styled as Obama -"Write the Docs"
| styled as a Metal Band -Linux styled as "Intel Inside"
| -javascript styled as supreme -"sys admin" styled as
| AC/DC -slayer syled as lorde -"sempai" styled as
| supreme -npm styled as IBM -Arur syled as AC/DC
| -untitled goose game styled as antifa -Javascript styled
| as playstation 1 -css styled as sega -starwars as
| starbucks - "bookface" as facebook
|
| And more. I didn't recognise a lot of stuff.
| aydwi wrote:
| Second day of my first ever internship, I dented the aluminium
| lid of my brand new, very expensive, work Macbook.
|
| So I had an idea - I slapped a band-aid on the dent to hide it.
| Caught the attention of way too many people. Everytime they
| inquired, I'd tell them it's because I hurt the laptop by
| denting it. Resulted in amused and confused faces alike.
| notfed wrote:
| The Band-Aid Streisand effect
| nonsince wrote:
| I had a sticker on my work laptop at my old company with the
| company logo edited to say "ecstasy" and no-one ever commented
| on it
| Pxtl wrote:
| Yeah I think the JavaScript one is the only one ham-fisted
| enough to get spotted without explaining the joke.
| tapia wrote:
| I just had to laugh at loud when I opened the page and saw the
| Vim logo with Vscode written in it. I was not expecting it.
| Thanks for this :D
| junon wrote:
| Just saw these on Twitter the other day and they are _heinous_. I
| don 't think I've ever been so annoyed by a sticker before.
|
| Great job! :D
| afandian wrote:
| For the laity there's /r/sbubby
| https://old.reddit.com/r/sbubby/top/?sort=top&t=all
| embik wrote:
| I love how much I hate this.
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