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My favorite database shirts

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Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by dylan604 »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #17
dylan604 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it just be easier to find 50/50 t-shirts without the branding and not be some tool of a walking billboard rent free? Edit: Ignore this. Reading comprehension clearly needs work

Isn't that exactly what dminor did?

You're right. I misread " went online and bought a bunch of blank ones in different colors." by completely reading past "blank ones" and thought they went to get different colors of the branded shirt.

reading comprehension was always a skill set lost on me

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by CoastalCoder »

It was so cool to see Mike Stonebraker's face on a t-shirt!

Back in grad school, I was lucky enough to be on a research group that he helped lead. He was totally unpretentious, and at the time I had no idea what a big deal he was in the database world.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by zellyn »

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!

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by jroseattle »

It's been 20+ years but I loved this shirt for it's SQL agnostic-ity:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lol-code-geek-select-from-user...

(This shows the shirt you could buy once-upon-a-time from thinkgeek, which appears to be no more...)

I believe they used beefy-t brand shirts, which was like the nicest thing you could get for t-shirts at the time. (Personal opinion, don't @ me.)

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by jdelman »

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 everywhere in tech shirts right now and it just screams tech. The only one of these with a good design is the Altibase shirt, but it suffers from having the ugliest color.

Give me black, 100% cotton, heavyweight Hanes Beefy-Ts with retro-looking logos.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by djbusby »

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…

That shirt, with long sleeves. My go-to for 20 years.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by powerset »

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!

Must be the quality of the fiber
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