Misbrands • Hacker News Board

Re: Misbrands

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Post by Lealen » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

tupac_speedrap wrote: post #6

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.

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

Re: Misbrands

#52

Post by necovek » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

gnz11 wrote: post #37

Shouldn't the RoR sticker use the Django font?

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 :)

Re: Misbrands

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Post by Aeolun » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:17 PM UTC

skytreader wrote: post #25

tupac_speedrap wrote: post #6

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.

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 th…

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.

Re: Misbrands

#54

Post by yiksanchan » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

I visualize them in https://misbrands.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/yiksanchan/misbrands

Check it out!

Re: Misbrands

#55

Post by Aeolun » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #41

JauntyHatAngle wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Laptop lids are common for developers, especially in trendier companies.

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.

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?

Re: Misbrands

#56

Post by bellyfullofbac » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

JauntyHatAngle wrote: post #14

MikusR wrote: post #10

The logos are funny, but where do people put those stickers?

Laptop lids are common for developers, especially in trendier companies.

Since we're all just on video calls nowadays, maybe these apps should come with game streamer-style "add an image overlay" capability.

Re: Misbrands

#57

Post by markus_zhang » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

Why do people hate Ubuntu and VSCode?

Re: Misbrands

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Post by Aeolun » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

yiksanchan wrote: post #54

I visualize them in https://misbrands.vercel.app/ Code: https://github.com/yiksanchan/misbrands Check it out!

Thank you for your public service. For some reason Github shows only half of the images on my mobile.

Re: Misbrands

#59

Post by oefnak » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

markus_zhang wrote: post #57

Why do people hate Ubuntu and VSCode?

The idea is that the image is from their counterparts: Debian and Vim.

Re: Misbrands

#60

Post by 1ris » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

citeguised wrote: post #26

numlock86 wrote: post #21

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.

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.

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.