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.
Misbrands
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Re: Misbrands
#22The logos are funny, but where do people put those stickers?
on your snowboard
Re: Misbrands
#23Not 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
It's called "gorris".
Edit: there's also the inverse, called "fepher".
Re: Misbrands
#24The 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.
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.
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#25The JavaScript one is funny. To be honest they should have picked a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java.
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.)
Re: Misbrands
#26Being 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.
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.
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#27I 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?
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"
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#28Not 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
It's a gopherris inepta, clearly.
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#29The JavaScript one is funny. To be honest they should have picked a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java.
> 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.
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#30I 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?
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 WordPr…
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.