My favorite database shirts(cs.cmu.edu) |
My favorite database shirts(cs.cmu.edu) |
I got a few of them at aws reinvent in like 2012.
2nd favorite is a Cassandra one of similar make.
* https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1659019035818729472
* https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1335045678876270592
* https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1125465168023048193
* https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/996191088372322304
* https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/862320227601850368
My highlights from the last 6-7 years:
* DuckDB (European embroidery!)
* Materialize (like Snowflake)
* Yellowbrick (wild designs)
* Timescale (old logo was popular)
-- Andy
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, but either way is a sad reflection on the state of the DB industry.
I remember it vividly as that year, the infantilization of developers by companies was at its peak.
MongoDB had a stand with hired girls in pump up bras distributing tee shirts. Google had its stand with the same girls proposing some "funny quizz" to win some blinking LED toy and an interview slot.
The AWS/Azure and Java/JavaScript ones are good, but the Vim/VS Code one is gold.
This is the exact kind of dumb shirt I’m looking for
I originally tried SpreadShirt, but they rejected the design due to copyright.
Give me black, 100% cotton, heavyweight Hanes Beefy-Ts with retro-looking logos.
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 affiliated or getting a referral from this... I just think they're a lesser known brand in the US)
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0. https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/short_sleeve_crew_nec...
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.
A long-sleeve T-shirt with a hood is just a long-sleeve T-shirt with a hood.
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".
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.
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 what their product does, but I can’t understand how a person with that clarity of thought would decide to actually make one.
Idk but mongo-anything has clearly insulting connotations hasn't it? I'm not a fan of cancelling language at all but still find it very surprising a product with that name could advance that far in enterprise computing. I guess I had hoped the article would explain the joke I was missing here.
Update: ads on a CMU site?
But they changed the fabric a while ago and it's not the same.
Still have a few that are getting pretty threadbare.
Watch out because some Hanes Premium are 100% cotton, which is not what you want at least at this price point.
My current company found a similar shirt from bella+canvas that is also great. It and the stripe shirt are the only vendor shirts in my regular rotation.
What is very frustrating is I have 2XL shirts from 2007-2009 that fit better than a 4XL from 2022. I've tried to narrow it down to brands and blends and the 50/50 or tri-blend shirts have held their true sizes for longer but somewhere along the way every brand has seemed to have gotten smaller by full inches. In underarmor polos I now buy their tactical line to get the equivalent of their "loose" fit from yesteryear. It is so frustrating and sometimes a huge money waste buying shirts.
The longest lasting shirts in my closet are some Hurley and Billabong shirts from Hot Topic and similar from 2010 or earlier.
For any conference organizers or swag buyers reading this, please start offering up to 4XL in any cheap brand shirts, especially 100% cotton, even if it is preshrunk.
Edit: Ignore this. Reading comprehension clearly needs work
My current company has been using bella+canvas of late, and I wear them all_the_time, they are so comfortable that I worry about their durability.
I'm also super, super big into the collars not stretching out. I can't stand that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I walked by the office a few weeks ago. It’s vacant and looked trashed inside. There’s a metaphor there.
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.)
Who has filled this void? I know xkcd had/has some geeky shirts and they shut down too.
SELECT * FROM SITES WHERE FLAGS LIKE '%BACKBUTTONHIJACKED%'Back in grad school, I was lucky enough to be on a research group that he helped lead. He was totally unpretentious, and at the time I had no idea what a big deal he was in the database world.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_xyrZCSo8
Generally: started out as undershirts, became work shirts (especially in the USN during WW2), and then folks just started wearing them on a daily basis post-war, mostly in 'misfit' / counter-culture groups in the 1950s (especially amongst teenagers), and the hippy culture embracing them in the 1960s.
My current standard shirt are the NextLevel tri-blends, which are almost as good, and can be ordered plain online, or you can find them with all the logos you want in thrift store near techie areas.
My favorite one is the one for the release of PostgreSQL 8.4. It's simply blue on white and the design is after one of the boxes from the periodic table of the elements: with "Pg" in the middle and (as I recall, it's not in front of me now) and an "atomic weight" of 8.4.
The other was for the release of PostgreSQL 9.0 when replication was introduced. It's a blue shirt with white print. That banner feature is the prominent text on the front and a herd of Elephants charging at the viewer like you might see a stampede of horses do on a western movie's poster.
Good designs celebrating milestone events for the project.
I'm a database geek and would happily rep your stuff!
I think about ROI on marketing and this must be incredible w/r/t Employee alignment. Imagine having employees wear your brand day in day out!
how small is your closest? i've heard how small apartments can be in places like NYC/SF, but if the space provided for your clothes is filled by 9 t-shirts, i'm going to need to re-evaluate small again.
I still have a couple (we did it multiple times) and actually really like them. Same 50/50 blend as the mongo shirt.
When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE box of swag arrived, with a dozen shirts and lots of other things. Our team and corner of the office became The Place To Be for a while.
Very bold choices by them and a reflection on their direction of being a very different type of database.
Now I gotta go find it in my closet...
reading comprehension was always a skill set lost on me
AFAICT it's not exactly used against people with actual Down syndrome, but rather as a synonym for "idiot" and the like.
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.
That's true of many things and has been for a long time. "De gustibus non disputandum est," as the Romans said. "It's useless to argue about taste."
I updated your statement for the remainder of modern history. ^_^
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.
I can't imagine when I'd wear one either - if I want protection from the sun I'll wear a hat or sunscreen - not a hood.
And then you're used to it, and you start wearing them elsewhere too, because why bother with lesser protection?
They may be more popular at higher altitudes than at the beach though. Beach folk have a bit more atmosphere protecting them.