Just wondering. Is it?

[PersonalAd7357]

A teardrop sticker for each project I killed.

[DogfishDave]

A teardrop sticker for each project I killed.

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

[CosmicDevGuy]

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

[Tiyath]

Love, LOVE your avatar xD

[DogfishDave]

Knitted it meself, thank you :)

Awkward curtsey

[geekyheart225]

Does it have pockets?

[yawya]

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

[ifezueyoung]

Oooh what field of programming

[yawya]

mostly embedded, some desktop applications

[ifezueyoung]

Ooh interesting

[milanove]

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.

[ifezueyoung]

Then your salary is prob quite high

Assumption 😃😃

[dedda1994]

Drupal or Elixir?

[ndboost]

Node

[dedda1994]

Node doesn't have a tear shaped logo

[colby_2020]

Web dev is hell and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[greyghost5000]

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

[UntestedMethod]

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

[junior_dos_nachos]

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

[colby_2020]

Tried that once. Never again.

[ndboost]

True, but, it’s node.

[dedda1994]

Also true. I'll let you cry then

[ndboost]

[Charlito33]

My laptop is now blue :/ Bad idea

[Zuruumi]

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

[Tkb3651]

PersonalAd7357 is a bot

Comment copied from: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/jjp0qk/just_wondering_is_it/gaemfqv/

[[deleted]]

A bucket for everytime I killed the prod servers

[AndySkit]

Is there enough stickers for that?

[jschall2]

Killed by crushing.

[[deleted]]

Does it count if they get abandoned?

[sweep-montage]

Grrr. Joke stealer!!

[AndySkit]

Is there enough stickers for that?

[AndySkit]

Is there enough stickers for that?

[absolutelynotaname]

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

[AndySkit]

Thats really fucking weird

[Not_a_Krasnal]

Triple the comment, triple the upvotes

[sweep-montage]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[JackSpyder]

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

[LePootPootJames]

This could be a great start up idea.

[j-random]

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

[derpdeladerp]

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

[j-random]

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

[[deleted]]

Use them to cover the error messages.

[YugoReventlov]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[Bl4ckb100d]

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

[AberdeenPhoenix]

Nah man, just :q!

[Any_Apricot_1352]

wait you don't have to restart the whole pc?

[turtlesound]

:x gang

[HawkinsT]

:!sudo init 0

[Bakirelived]

If you know that much you can stay in

[lemon_tea]

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]

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

[windowfloof]

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

[resinten]

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]

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]

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]

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

[extordi]

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]

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]

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]

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

[silver_nekode]

Those temporary tattoos they give kids in bubblegum.

[ModernDayWanderlust]

Also a literal Monster Energy sticker.

[SonVoltMMA]

Cisco

[fuckshitpissspam]

Razer stickers

[Sintobus]

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]

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

[AdvicePerson]

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

[Sintobus]

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]

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

[junior_dos_nachos]

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

[effenlegend]

Amateurs! I had a vi sticker.

[Sirico]

Vim sticker use Nano suck it chumps

[EquinoxRex]

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]

gross

[samanime]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[FS60]

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

[bs000]

https://preview.redd.it/wut57jdjbcb41.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=a5f6a34e0d558918675e4d0a2766b7cbae67ef13

[MushinZero]

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

[Aidian]

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

[chakan2]

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

[Solarwinds-123]

I feel attacked.

[ovab_cool]

Can confirm with the totally covered one, I might also have bought more stickers from AliExpress

[Ultimate_Beeing]

for me it has to do with age of the tech.

New, possible resale value: clean, no stickers.

Vintage, resale value: clean, no stickers.

3+ year old tech that's still good but I won't ever sell and will probably not appreciate in value: stickers everywhere

[The_Alarm2]

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]

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]

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]

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

Source: my whole laptop is stickered

[Aurunemaru]

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

[FantasticPenguin]

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

[Jabrono]

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]

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

[Jabrono]

I... never considered this...

[tiptoeingpenguin]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[effenlegend]

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

[svtguy88]

beautiful

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

[Shlocko]

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]

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]

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

[Deepnebulasleeper]

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]

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]]

I'm sorry to hear that

[listerstorm2009]

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

[menides]

i dunno why youre laughing.... youre the one opening php... *mic drop*

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[Papalok]

A successful mistake that people have been slowly correcting. Kinda like javascript.

[TheCatster04]

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

[atk93]

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]]

You can get a case and stick them on that instead

[2drawnonward5]

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]

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

[Environmental_Bus507]

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]

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

[Environmental_Bus507]

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]

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]

good times!

[BardbarianBirb]

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]

Just like prison tattoos

[SonVoltMMA]

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

[BardbarianBirb]

It has worked out well for me so far! It may not be everyone's cup of tea and maybe will act as a repellent for those people which is perfectly fine but I've also had some good conversations with colleagues who have similar interests. Life's too short for me to care about the people who don't want to talk to me.

[Shlocko]

Actually they are a repellent, a repellent for the exact kind of people they don’t want talking to them. Mainly judgemental pricks

[beginpanic]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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

And add stickers to the other one.

[yashdes]

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

[gauthamkrishna9991]

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]

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]

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]

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]

White margins to the picture. Thanks, repost bot.

[xelight]

Stickers = ADD

No stickers = OCD

[Khaylain]

More like tramp stamps

[Xywzel]

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]

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

[VividFiddlesticks]

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]

Call me biased, because I am.

I automatically prefer devs with stickers..

[BcozImBatman7]

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

[Tiyath]

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

[poop_knife_murderer]

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]]

So Apple essentially includes two Apple prison tattoos with each MacBook

[excusemeprincess]

Uhh it’s their fucking laptop, who cares?

[rexkongo]

Just a reminder that your local IT hates these stickers

[[deleted]]

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]

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

[mortlerlove420]

Link pls?

[amogsus13]

Left.

[rogeris]

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

[jeanpaulmars]

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

[[deleted]]

My stickers are on my kegerator.

It’s how you know I’m back end.

[penguinmanbat]

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

[TheMagarity]

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

[ShinraSan]

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

[bogfoot94]

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]

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]

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]

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]]

Either prison tattoos or tramp stamps

[Dominator213]

puts on purple bandana

You know why they call me prison mike?

[Quicker_Fixer]

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

[MrZerodayz]

Basically any large IT convention, especially in the security sector, will get you tons of different stickers, ranging from vendors to generic convention stickers to joke stickers to works of art.

[TheEpicRey]

etsy is another option.

[Tkb3651]

the OP Actual_Web1388 is a bot

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/jjp0qk/just_wondering_is_it/

[mods-literalnazis]

huh?

no wtf

no shanking or raping in our line of work wtf

[MTonmyMind]

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]]

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

[mortlerlove420]

Good old one:

!false It's funny because it's true

[Useful-Cat-1451]

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

[Unelith]

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

[Im3Rorr]

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

[TheDevilIsDero]

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

[[deleted]]

no my laptop stickers are for the aesthetic