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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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…
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)!
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.
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).
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Thank you for your public service. For some reason Github shows only half of the images on my mobile.
Thanks for the kind words! Anything I can do to resolve your issue? Is there a way to reproduce?
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
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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.
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…
I’d genuinely like to know if someone had a good experience since it might change my current view.
Unfortunately, the tone of your comment did the exact opposite. You blame me for being uncharitable in the same breath that you are being immensely uncharitable yourself.
In my experience, people that don’t know the difference are invariably windbags that read results off of whatever google dashboard. It’s not like this skepticism on HN comes out of nowhere. There’s a fuckton of charlatans in the SEO space.
I’ll admit part of it is that nobody listens to me when I tell them the same thing (5 months before) their $200/hour consultant is telling them.
There was another section here, but in the spirit of Christmas I’ll leave off.
Have a good one :)