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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.
Never understood why people put stickers on their laptops, to me it seems like a cargo cult. Oh, you’re using this trendy library? Are you a brogrammer or a programmer? Why is libraries and technologies trendy anyway, so much time has been wasted building something using the wrong tool for the job. It also ruins the design of the laptop, just like a phone case does. Maybe I’m just old.
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.
I used to want to personalize my laptops. Due to same vague notion it'd reduce confusion in the office. (Which proved to not be a problem.) Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo". I haven't liked any of the cases I've tried. Among other problems, accumulation of grit and scuz. I once tried that spray rubber stuff (on an old sacrificial laptop). PlastiDip? Didn't work well. I'm dumb about this stuff. Someone w…
I got these transparent covers for my Mac: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0009/5354/8852/products/cm...
Then I made a custom vinyl skin from DecalGirl that was applied to the top transparent cover : https://www.decalgirl.com/skins/laptops/apple
Problem solved. Now I have a laptop "wrap" that isn't permanently or semi-permanently attached to the machine.
DecalGirl has a bunch of other laptop skins as well for Dell, HP, Acer etc: https://www.decalgirl.com/skins/laptops
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'm not sure if Visual JavaScript is archived at all: https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42968
I 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…
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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?
We never assign used hardware to new employees, well monitors are reused.
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.
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.
I used to want to personalize my laptops. Due to same vague notion it'd reduce confusion in the office. (Which proved to not be a problem.) Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo". I haven't liked any of the cases I've tried. Among other problems, accumulation of grit and scuz. I once tried that spray rubber stuff (on an old sacrificial laptop). PlastiDip? Didn't work well. I'm dumb about this stuff. Someone w…
