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Laptops with Stickers

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601 points z303 | 1 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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xg15 ◴[12 Nov 25 09:58 UTC] No.45898311[source]▶
I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops.

Startup culture?

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marcusb ◴[12 Nov 25 14:16 UTC] No.45900477[source]▶
I used to work for medium/big tech companies (8,000 - 70,000 employees.)

I always had a sticker on my laptop - everybody had the same laptop (or maybe one of two models.) It was a reliable way to quickly identify mine in a big group at a meeting or conference.

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1. rkomorn ◴[12 Nov 25 14:20 UTC] No.45900515[source]▶
Funnily enough, not having stickers for me was an equally (if not more) reliable way to identify my laptop at those types of companies.