Such a weird comment on a Hacker site (at the top too). Hackers used to care a lot less about status and appearances, and more about doing cool shit. It's unfortunate that changed.
Taste clouds the mind. It introduces preconceptions, encourages judgement, and makes it harder to see the true value in something. Thankfully, many hackers were not dismissed due to their lack of "taste".
Just take the Lenovo laptop for example. I don't know which model it is, but some models are incredibly practical. They have very long battery life, beautiful keyboards, and are built like a tank. But no, let's focus on the stickers.
Just take the Lenovo laptop for example. I don't know which model it is, but some models are incredibly practical. They have very long battery life, beautiful keyboards, and are built like a tank.
Which is presumably why the previous poster has one sitting next to him.
But no, let's focus on the stickers.
It is the focus of this thread. Why would you even open it if you're not interested in discussing them?
Exactly. I got the laptop because it's an excellent work horse, has specs suitable for what I need it for (programming), and runs Debian like a champ. The point, which I probably failed to get across, is that I find it funny how Lenovo put so much care into making a kickass laptop, then proceeded to carelessly slap a whole bunch of stickers all over it. Obviously the stickers can be removed but it seems like such a lapse in design quality for an otherwise very good laptop.
In as much as taste = preference, I'm not sure that is an accurate statement. Preferences do not necessarily cloud your mind, nor are hackers devoid of them.
Personally, it's not so much how it looks, it's having those damned stickers right underneath my hands as I type. I'm one of those people that washes my hands a couple times a day -- not like anti-germ OCD washing, but just... conscious washing -- and those stickers always mess with me. Though it is a little bit about looks, because I always end up putting on my own Linux Mint sticker on the case and a little penguin sticker over the Windows button. But only marginally about looks.
Hackers didn't "use to" anything. Some do, some don't.
I care about aesthetics and design a lot and I always have. I consider it related to the ocd-like tendency in me that sortof itches when I see code that is inconsistently indented or when a non-mutating function is named with a verb that I feel indicates mutation.
