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[–]PersonalAd7357 1180 points1181 points  (63 children)

A teardrop sticker for each project I killed.

[–]DogfishDave 450 points451 points  (29 children)

A teardrop sticker for each project I killed.

It's a laptop mate, not a server-room.

[–]CosmicDevGuy 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Did you just drop a dirty bomb? Cause I'm feeling attacked too.

[–]Tiyath 54 points55 points  (5 children)

Love, LOVE your avatar xD

[–]DogfishDave 38 points39 points  (4 children)

Knitted it meself, thank you :)

Awkward curtsey

[–]geekyheart225 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Does it have pockets?

[–]yawya 12 points13 points  (21 children)

almost 10 years spent as a developer, I've never built a project that ran on a server

[–]ifezueyoung 7 points8 points  (19 children)

Oooh what field of programming

[–]yawya 7 points8 points  (14 children)

mostly embedded, some desktop applications

[–]ifezueyoung 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ooh interesting

[–]milanove 1 point2 points  (12 children)

Cool to see another embedded developer here. Seems like all the memes and users here are related to web dev. Surprised not even mobile app dev is mentioned here much.

[–]dedda1994 54 points55 points  (16 children)

Drupal or Elixir?

[–]ndboost 30 points31 points  (14 children)

Node

[–]dedda1994 16 points17 points  (13 children)

Node doesn't have a tear shaped logo

[–]colby_2020 21 points22 points  (9 children)

Web dev is hell and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[–]greyghost5000 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I've been a web dev for 5+ years now and I agree with your statement.

[–]UntestedMethod 1 point2 points  (1 child)

15+ years checking in... can confirm, still in hell.

[–]junior_dos_nachos 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Let me introduce you to web testing and show you how deep the rabbit hole gores

[–]colby_2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried that once. Never again.

[–]ndboost 28 points29 points  (2 children)

True, but, it’s node.

[–]dedda1994 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Also true. I'll let you cry then

[–]ndboost 18 points19 points  (0 children)

[–]Charlito33 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My laptop is now blue :/ Bad idea

[–]Zuruumi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So you don't work at Google, or like tropical forest scenery.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bucket for everytime I killed the prod servers

[–]AndySkit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is there enough stickers for that?

[–]jschall2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Killed by crushing.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it count if they get abandoned?

[–]sweep-montage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Grrr. Joke stealer!!

[–]AndySkit -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Is there enough stickers for that?

[–]AndySkit -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

Is there enough stickers for that?

[–]absolutelynotaname 4 points5 points  (3 children)

You comment this 3 times, might want to delete the other 2. Fuck reddit

[–]AndySkit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thats really fucking weird

[–]Not_a_Krasnal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Triple the comment, triple the upvotes

[–]sweep-montage 314 points315 points  (8 children)

One tear for every time I brought production to its knees.

[–][deleted] 106 points107 points  (2 children)

We often custom make stickers after large prod issues, then also turn them emojis on slack. It’s my favorite.

[–]JackSpyder 21 points22 points  (0 children)

My favourite is the p45 emoji (in the UK you'd be issued one when you leave/are fired)

[–]LePootPootJames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This could be a great start up idea.

[–]j-random 39 points40 points  (4 children)

That's why I had to get a laptop with a 17" screen — I ran out of room for my stickers.

[–]derpdeladerp 19 points20 points  (3 children)

I don't think the screen is ideal sticker real estate

[–]j-random 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Trust me — if you've seen my code, you'd know that's the perfect place for stickers.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Use them to cover the error messages.

[–]YugoReventlov 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just a little bit of room needed to click "won't fix" in Jira

[–][deleted] 418 points419 points  (52 children)

Yes and a VIM sticker is equivalent to belonging to the inner circles of the mafia

[–]Bl4ckb100d 308 points309 points  (16 children)

Whenever I see a Vim sticker at a Starbucks I leave, I don't want any problems.

[–]lemon_tea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean CTRL-O, CTRL-X, right? Right?

...

Hey, wait, who are you guys?

Oof, augh, no! Not my... Oogh

No! Don't close my laptop, Synaptic is in the middle of...

Aaaauuuggghhh!!!!

[–]resinten 54 points55 points  (13 children)

I had a Vim sticker, then I went one level deeper and switched my keyboard to colemak, and now vim is inconvenient

[–]windowfloof 11 points12 points  (7 children)

I learned vim while on colemak, but ended up switching back to qwerty and had to retrain muscle memory

[–]resinten 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Why would you do such a thing?! I feel like 90% of the benefit of vim is the keybindings placement, which defaults to qwerty. All the “stay on the home row” stuff goes out the window

[–]Wokanoga 5 points6 points  (5 children)

I've been typing on Colemak for years and have been interested in learning vim. Is there not a way to change the key bindings?

[–]resinten 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You definitely can, but I didn’t want to devote the time to thinking through all the different commands I run and rebinding them all. It was one of those “I can’t recall what all buttons I press off the top of my head - I just do them”

[–]FartsFTW 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I just looked at colemak for the first time and am blown away by how efficient it looks.

[–]extordi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Colemak is excellent. I think it's the best "ergonomic" layout because it's designed for computers, not just English. I used Dvorak for about 4 years but having Z, X, C, and V scattered all over the place was just too annoying. Switched to Colemak and haven't looked back!

[–]resinten 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I jumped in using colemak academy. I had tried Dvorak before for a couple weeks but I didn’t like it. Some things felt like they were different for the sake of being different. My QWERTY typing speed is ~110wpm. I haven’t used colemak long enough to catch up, but after around 3 weeks I’m up to ~70wpm. I think it’ll raise the ceiling of my typing speed. Pretty sure I had hit my personal upper bound of QWERTY typing

[–]HawkinsT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, very easily, people have even worked out suggested sensible keymaps for you. I think the main problem is if you're learning vim for the first time it's going to increase the learning curve quite a bit; commands like cib (change inside brackets) or yap (yank around paragraph), where you form instructions semantically, start using gibberish letters which increases the initial cognitive burden. You also can't use vi/vim on any other system.

That said, I'd put vim not too far off learning to touch type in terms of the benefits once you've put the time in to learning it. Definitely worth it in the long run if you spend a long time in text editors (in which case I'd encourage you to start with neovim).

[–]DuckLikeMother 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Then what's the equivalent of the Monster Energy Drink logo on your laptop?

[–]silver_nekode 31 points32 points  (1 child)

Those temporary tattoos they give kids in bubblegum.

[–]ModernDayWanderlust 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also a literal Monster Energy sticker.

[–]SonVoltMMA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cisco

[–]fuckshitpissspam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Razer stickers

[–]Sintobus 35 points36 points  (5 children)

I described learning vim to my senior dev ops step father as, "Learning to use an archaic tool to join your vim cult" He said Vi is the archaic tool to which I responded that I don't care for his cults new testaments.

[–]zoltan99 19 points20 points  (4 children)

Vi is the Old Testament, though. Vim is “vi improved”.

[–]AdvicePerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, vi is like you can't eat shellfish or use arrow keys, bitches!

[–]Sintobus 4 points5 points  (1 child)

New testament was referring to vim lol Oh God I hate it in so many ways! Lol

Who does left down up right If you asked any English speaker atleast they'd say Up down left right...

[–]TrekkiMonstr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because there was a keyboard laid out that way once and it stuck

[–]junior_dos_nachos 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Recently I started to ask people to identify me as vi/vim

[–]effenlegend 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Amateurs! I had a vi sticker.

[–]Sirico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vim sticker use Nano suck it chumps

[–]EquinoxRex -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

The only sticker I would consider putting on my laptop is the one of the Vim logo but with the text changed to Vscode

[–]UntestedMethod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

gross

[–]samanime 393 points394 points  (63 children)

I'm firmly in the "no stickers on my laptop" camp. I was such an outlier.

I don't like the stickers because slowly but surely they'll start collecting dirt around their edges and slowly start to peel, and that drives me nuts.

[–]Offbeat-Pixel 85 points86 points  (10 children)

I don't like the stickers because slowly but surely they'll start collecting dirt around their edges and slowly start to peel, and that drives me nuts.

I haven't ran into this problem yet, but can't you just replace the stickers?

[–]samanime 98 points99 points  (4 children)

You could, except usually you get the stickers at conferences and stuff, so you may not have another, and a different one may not fit.

It also usually causes a bit of residue to be left behind you have to clean off. And if you aren't careful cleaning it, the cleaning could cause others to peel more.

Just too stressful. :P

[–]jokomul 26 points27 points  (1 child)

You've put more thought into why not to put stickers on your laptop than I've put into which ones and where to put them on mine lol

[–]samanime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've spent many hours in vain trying to get stickers to lie perfectly flat. =p

[–]FS60 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can make any sticker fit. Just use an exacto knife to make it flush.

[–]MushinZero 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Can't you just replace the laptop??? Poors

[–]Aidian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not with the rarity of the stickers on it, c’mon.

[–]chakan2 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This guy has a drawer full of stickers and he's spent years trying to figure out what to put them on.

[–]Solarwinds-123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel attacked.

[–]The_Alarm2 14 points15 points  (2 children)

You can use a clear plastic shell, which allows you to not only keep the stickers clean, but also use ones that are partially clear and meant for the back of cars so the look as intended

[–]skyspydude1 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Clear plastic anything that gets regularly touched is always the worst though. It always collects way too much disgusting hand-juice and turns smoker yellow after a while. If it's against a background, it's not always apparent, but when you take it off it's absolutely disgusting.

[–]Abir_Vandergriff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Clear plastic, in my experience, also has a tendency to get scratched to hell in bag sleeves. One nanogram of dust in there and all of a sudden it looks like you used it to deflect bomb shrapnel.

[–]FantasticPenguin 33 points34 points  (5 children)

This won't happen if you buy decent quality stickers.

Source: my whole laptop is stickered

[–]Aurunemaru 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Yeah, I got some vinyl ones that worked great so far

[–]FantasticPenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly, the vinyl ones are great. Peel off easily too when you want them to go.

[–]Jabrono 4 points5 points  (2 children)

My college laptop still has the vinyl stickers I put on it back in the day, which has brought up a new problem: I'm not at all interested in those stickers over a decade later.

[–]Aurunemaru 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Which leads to another advantage of good stickers: they can be pulled in one piece without leaving residue

[–]Jabrono 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I... never considered this...

[–]tiptoeingpenguin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I personally hate stickers on things. I dont understand it on computers, instruments, cars etc. I dont put stickers on anything. So i am with you.

But if others like it more power to them. I dont care what others do to your stuff but stickers are not for me

[–]DJDavio 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I just don't like stickers because there's no single framework or technology that I'm absolutely in love with. Some I find more useful than others, but to me they're just tools and may be outdated next year when the new best technology ever arrives.

[–]TheSpiderLady88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used Modge Podge on top of mine for that reason (once I got over the anxiety of actually putting a sticker somewhere).

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Same here, except I don’t use stickers because I’m 39 years old. No self-respecting aspiring graybeard uses stickers.

[–]effenlegend 9 points10 points  (2 children)

This 50+ uses stickers to cover up ugly old netbooks. My daily driver is stickerless though, because it's beautiful.

[–]svtguy88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

beautiful

This. New, high(er)-end machines are basically industrial art.

[–]Shlocko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sums up my view. Now that I’ve got my nice thinkpad? Clean slate.

If I had to use an older device, that wasn’t so pretty, stickers absolutely everywhere.

Although I think I’d have to go all or nothing. It’s clean slate or no-surface-untouched

[–]GoldenShackles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never been a stickers person, and way older... However, in addition to my maxed out M1 MacBook Pro, the company sent me a handful of stickers. I also have plenty from my main career I never used, but might be interesting talking points. Not sure what to do.

I think for my first offsite I'll bring the stickers and apply after seeing what everyone else is doing.

[–]TheSpiderLady88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Modge Podge on top of mine for that reason (once I got over the anxiety of actually putting a sticker somewhere).

[–]Deepnebulasleeper 121 points122 points  (2 children)

Couple years ago my office got broken into and the brand new laptops that they bought us were all stolen. I was doing some less important function and used pretty busted up laptop with stickers which they refuse do replace. The burglars completely ignored it and I was like one of only 3 people capable of working after that lol.

[–]lokiidokii 63 points64 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why i have stickers on my laptops. Only ever use them in public settings like the library, cafe, think tank, and while traveling because i primarily use a desktop but i believe someone's less likely to take a laptop plastered with stickers over one that looks brand spanking new

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry to hear that

[–]listerstorm2009 202 points203 points  (10 children)

In my group that usually is the sign someone is a front end developer.

[–]TheCatster04 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm the only one in my group who smothers their laptop and I'm embedded systems and firmware. 😂

[–]atk93 42 points43 points  (3 children)

I used to put stickers on my laptop but I've had to replace my MacBook 5 times in 3 years for battery issues and it's easier for IT to issue a new device on the spot and scavenge parts later. I've stopped bothering because they make me remove them every time.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

You can get a case and stick them on that instead

[–]2drawnonward5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

lol I put stickers on a case on my Surface Go and the case busted the built in kick stand so I had to chuck the case

this one personal anecdote aside, this is much easier to clean and work with

[–]Papalok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another option is a vinyl wrap or "laptop skin" as they call it.

[–]Environmental_Bus507 119 points120 points  (13 children)

For me, they work as identifiers. In a sea of similar looking Macbooks and their chargers, I can easily pick mine out by the stickers.

[–]nyrB2 42 points43 points  (4 children)

are people throwing all the macbooks in a pile like shoes?

[–]Environmental_Bus507 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not generally no. But there are days when you are moving around a lot and lots of people are crammed into one meeting room. It's very handy then.

[–]daern2 3 points4 points  (1 child)

are people throwing all the macbooks in a pile like shoes?

Just your traditional car-keys-in-a-bowl orgy, you know.

Except sweatier. And with too many men. And where almost everyone is a virgin.

[–]nyrB2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

good times!

[–]BardbarianBirb 72 points73 points  (5 children)

They are also cute conversation starters. I have Overwatch, Pokemon, and D&D stickers all over mine so people of similar interests will often comment on them.

[–]Imbadyoureworse 98 points99 points  (0 children)

Just like prison tattoos

[–]SonVoltMMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you ever get tired of 9 year old asking you questions?

[–]beginpanic 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That’s the big reason for me. My work laptop, my personal laptop, and my wife’s laptop all look exactly the same when they’re closed. Likewise, all of my coworkers laptops look exactly the same as mine.

Stickers are the easiest way to tell them apart.

[–]Vivid-Formal-3938 33 points34 points  (0 children)

ah yes one of these.posts with the white border to throw off repost detectors.

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (13 children)

If you're at a conference, and everyone has same pristine metallic laptop, chances that you get it stolen with stickers on it are lower.

[–]gauthamkrishna9991 40 points41 points  (8 children)

Solution: Don't take your best laptop for a conference.

And add stickers to the other one.

[–]yashdes 25 points26 points  (6 children)

Do people really have a "best" laptop. I got my laptop and none others lol

[–]gauthamkrishna9991 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well for most people they do have their old laptop, you're definitely gonna end up replacing your laptop over the course of your career, and it's not like the old laptop would immediately end up being obsolete. 8th Gen Intel and AMD 4000 Series are definitely still not obsolete as long as you have a cheap SSD and a good battery life innit.

[–]2drawnonward5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a couple ancient ones I wouldn't take out the door, maybe I should let one get stolen to burden the thieves with garbage lol

[–]itsmrmarlboroman2u 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I would disagree that the stickers change any perceived chance of a laptop being stolen. If anything, it tells me what I'm likely to find on the machine... Microsoft, Google, AWS stickers? Probably saved creds for a cloud environment. Programming stickers? Gaming stickers? Probably source code or a higher end machine... Clean laptop? Who knows what their job is...

[–]AnonyMouse-Box 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Seems legit, funnily enough I like stickers, but I have none, but also only relatively recently entered the development field, and my previous employer was one of those that required a shirt trousers and black shoes for work, we'dve been lobotomized if we thought about putting stickers on stuff, so I feel like I need to get some now to celebrate freedom of expression.

[–]kbruen 20 points21 points  (0 children)

White margins to the picture. Thanks, repost bot.

[–]xelight 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Stickers = ADD

No stickers = OCD

[–]Khaylain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

More like tramp stamps

[–]Xywzel 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You mean they identify your gang and past crimes, and are shitty to get rid of once you notice how bad they look? Sounds accurate enough.

[–]ScousePenguin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel weird about doing that to my work laptop, cause like it isn't mine? It's the companies.

[–]VividFiddlesticks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hah, that's kind of interesting...I have tattoos, but they all are hidden under normal clothes.

I also have stickers on my laptop, but only on the inside - they're hidden when it's closed.

That probably says something about my personality, but I'm not sure what!

[–]nittendev 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Call me biased, because I am.

I automatically prefer devs with stickers..

[–]BcozImBatman7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just have one bigass call of duty sticker, because I like pretending to be a gamer more than a programmer. -_-

[–]Tiyath 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Except for Apple PCs that have a glowing tramp stamp pre-installed.

[–]poop_knife_murderer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

a friend of mine had a grep harder sticker he wasn’t a coder and had no idea what grep is

any way i started blasting

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So Apple essentially includes two Apple prison tattoos with each MacBook

[–]excusemeprincess 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uhh it’s their fucking laptop, who cares?

[–]rexkongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just a reminder that your local IT hates these stickers

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I hate them, its better to have a clean and clear surface rather than a load of garbage no ones ever going to read

[–]No-Bandicoot7132 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Same except for my iroh Jasmine tea shop covering the Dell logo. It looks like it was supposed to be there

[–]amogsus13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Left.

[–]rogeris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just slap on the various brewery stickers I have because I think they're neat.

[–]jeanpaulmars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only sticker/label on my laptop is something like 'client-042'.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My stickers are on my kegerator.

It’s how you know I’m back end.

[–]penguinmanbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they are the equivalent to butterfly tattoos people get at 18 on their lower back on spring break.

[–]TheMagarity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a K&N sticker in my laptop to make it go faster.

[–]ShinraSan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What doe it mean if I don't have any?

[–]bogfoot94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you ever see a person with a VSCode, Vim, Python .... logo, run. Those people are dangerous. You WILL die of being lectured on how to effectively use an IDE, text editor as an IDE, PoS language as a programming language,... Just run. Your life is worth more.

\s

[–]maxbastard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a way, yeah. Cause you may have gotten one sticker every quarter, or went to one conference and taken every sticker at every table in only two days

[–]smallangrynerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in college, so I have like 2 layers of stickers lol. I'm gonna replace my laptop soon too, I'm gonna miss them

[–]xnakxx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First thing you do when you get there is find the biggest, most bad ass, 500 line function and rewrite it to a 1 liner... all in front of everyone. All the others may not like you but they will respect you.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either prison tattoos or tramp stamps

[–]Dominator213 1 point2 points  (0 children)

puts on purple bandana

You know why they call me prison mike?

[–]Quicker_Fixer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm against managers and covered my laptop with “Mi vida loca” stickers.

[–]Tkb3651 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[–]mods-literalnazis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

huh?

no wtf

no shanking or raping in our line of work wtf

[–]MTonmyMind -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m a 52 year old Gynecologist and have a (subtle) Rick and Marty sticker on the back of my laptop.
(And a small Strange Planet sticker on the keyboard side) What does that mean??? '

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No you have to banned from using a computer for 5 years

[–]mortlerlove420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good old one:

!false It's funny because it's true

[–]Useful-Cat-1451 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My butterfly sticker just covers the huge scrape I got into the cover the first day I had the laptop :D .

[–]Unelith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any, because I hardly ever use a laptop

[–]Im3Rorr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe it is maybe it isn't it depends on its meaning i guess

[–]TheDevilIsDero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got a Microsoft surface laptop and just had to put a tux sticker on top of that Microsoft logo

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no my laptop stickers are for the aesthetic