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Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by tannhaeuser »

jdelman wrote: post #28

I disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is e…

> I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech

Idk but mongo-anything has clearly insulting connotations hasn't it? I'm not a fan of cancelling language at all but still find it very surprising a product with that name could advance that far in enterprise computing. I guess I had hoped the article would explain the joke I was missing here.

Update: ads on a CMU site?

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by airstrike »

loxias wrote: post #89
airstrike wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also worth noting that the only review on the website is very accurate despite being a 1-star review: "The quality of material is great. Neck is too low. Too lenghty". These are exactly the reasons why I like this shirt. Great material, neck is not too tight, probably an inch longer than many other fitted t-shirts, so your underwear isn't showing all the time.

Very good to know, now I won't waste $15. ;-) This whole comment thread is teaching me that apparently there isn't /any/ objective truth when it comes to t shirt comfort. Before today I figured that was an objective fact that the cheap Hanes ones were unloved -- neck always stretched out, too short and stout. I'm a fan of LA apparel (aka american apparel) as well as some bella+canvas ones. That stretched out neck jus…

FWIW I don't think Intimissimi shirts have a quote-unquote "stretched out neck", just a tiny bit of extra room... I hadn't even noticed it until I read the review

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by zmj »

zellyn wrote: post #25

For some reason the Google Fiber T-shirt that Google gave out in Atlanta is almost indestructible. I've worn mine routinely for years, and still see other people wearing them sometimes. Not sure exactly what the secret was, but boy would I love to know!

Yup. I’ve had one of the North Carolina Google Fiber shirts for well over a decade.

I walked by the office a few weeks ago. It’s vacant and looked trashed inside. There’s a metaphor there.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by nemo44x »

MongoDB deserves credit with bucking the trend of sans-serif fonts that it seems like every tech company has gone with. Their choices of colors too - brown and green are earthy and unique in the tech landscape.

Very bold choices by them and a reflection on their direction of being a very different type of database.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by KnlnKS »

While I don't have a MongoDB shirt. I do happen to have a pair of MongoDB Shoes (from the Vans brand). They're quite good and probably some of the best swag I've gotten from a tech brand.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by selimthegrim »

stvltvs wrote: post #94
matsemann wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech I disagree with the author in that I would be comfortable wearing a mongodb shirt in public. Mongoloid is a slur, and at least in Norway it's often shortened to "mongo".

Interesting, in the States, that term is no longer used very much and was never shortened AFAIK.

I’m pretty sure it was shortened, but as a name for a character

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by selimthegrim »

dbt00 wrote: post #90
mulmen wrote: post #72

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Everything about that organization offends me. They took their name from a series of books they apparently never read. How is Palantir supposed to save the shire? By trampling the rights of the Hobbits in addition to destroying their environment? The Palantir show a narrow view of events and lead to their users to ruin. It’s like they read the cautionary tale as an instruction manual. They chose an accurate name for…

Palantir is a Quenya word meaning far-seeing. The last successful king of Numenor was Tar-Palantir for example. The palantiri were corrupted by Sauron and limited to only show things that he wanted you to see. This was extremely well known inside Palantir and was deliberately talked about as something we should all consider the risk of. The origin story of Palantir was the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 a…

They signed a contract with the city of New Orleans!

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by jjgreen »

matsemann wrote: post #84
jdelman wrote: post #28

I disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is e…

> don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech I disagree with the author in that I would be comfortable wearing a mongodb shirt in public. Mongoloid is a slur, and at least in Norway it's often shortened to "mongo".

Is that a racial slur (i.e., Asian), or about Down syndrome? The latter was used in the UK many years ago, I've not heard it for 25 years (?), so "mongo" wouldn't raise an eyebrow here now.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by jjgreen »

leetrout wrote: post #34
jdelman wrote: post #28

I disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is e…

Follow on, my biggest frustration with these super thin, clingy shirts is how _everyone_ is showing their nipples through them now.

Nipple covers are a thing
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