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Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

leetrout wrote: post #37
jroseattle wrote: post #26

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.)

I think my wife finally tossed all my old thinkgeek shirts. I had a huge collection from my college years including "There are only 10 types of people in this world...", "man love" and "there's not place like 127.0.0.1". Who has filled this void? I know xkcd had/has some geeky shirts and they shut down too.

Hmm, I too miss the good ol' days, though I have more old tattered Threadless shirts than ThinkGeek. I suppose something like shirt.woot.com might be where the (nerdy) kids today look?

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by nerdponx »

CrazyStat wrote: post #49
leetrout wrote: post #34

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

Why does seeing nipples through a tshirt bother you so much?

It's just a weird fleshy body part that I'm not used to seeing and generally don't want to see on other people. Also the feeling of a plasticky "technical" shirt on my own nipples is very unpleasant.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by pc86 »

mulmen wrote: post #72
bubblethink wrote: post #52

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>I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech Depends on the age. MongoDB may not have been such a common name back when the tshirt came out. I have a couple of Palantir t-shirts (american apparel, 100% cotton I think) that have held up over a decade and are really comfortable. One of them says, "Save the shire" and Palantir. I don't think people would have known that it's a tech tshirt back then…

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…

This seems unrelated to the comfort and fit of their shirts, but maybe not?

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by matsemann »

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".

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by achileas »

bhickey wrote: post #58
craigkerstiens wrote: post #7

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I love the "this guy" piece... Meanwhile he's been the most public person in academia talking about databases over at least the last 5 years, maybe the last 10. He's not only done an awesome job of talking about foundational pieces of databases, but also examining new databases that have come up over the last 10 years or so. He's course is quite open as well, so it's not just the student base that gets to take advant…

Back in grad school he got put on probation a second time after hiring a magician off craigslist for admitted students day. The magician showed up drunk and lost his dove in the building.

Wow I like Andy even more now

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by loxias »

airstrike wrote: post #69
airstrike wrote: post #33

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Somewhat off-topic but for those who want a black, 100% cotton and lighterweight t-shirt, IMHO nothing compares to Intimissimi[0] They run a bit small so I recommend one size larger than your regular size. They're currently on sale from Black Friday so only $14.30 each. (Large Black is now out-of-stock, sorry!) They also make many other varieties like v necks, long sleeve, modal/cashmere/ etc. (Claimer: I'm not affil…

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 just gives me flashbacks to middle school, ugh.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Post by dbt00 »

mulmen wrote: post #72
bubblethink wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech Depends on the age. MongoDB may not have been such a common name back when the tshirt came out. I have a couple of Palantir t-shirts (american apparel, 100% cotton I think) that have held up over a decade and are really comfortable. One of them says, "Save the shire" and Palantir. I don't think people would have known that it's a tech tshirt back then…

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 attacks not being caught. The goal was to prevent the total eradication of civil liberties that would necessarily follow another successful attack of that magnitude.

Palantir’s software was rejected by organizations performing dragnet style mass data collection.

This is the most pointless hn comment I’ll ever leave, but you shouldn’t assume other people are ignorant or acting out of malice.

Also the tshirts were comfy as fuck and extremely well designed.

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