YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)

Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by asguy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:56AM (#32672178)

Maybe if you’re a boomer. We’ve gone through iterations:

- for buying IBM

- for buying Microsoft

- for buying Oracle

- for buying Cisco

- for buying AWS

… what’s next?

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by coldpie on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:30AM (#32676774)

I would definitely fire someone for buying Oracle.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by jagged-chisel on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:25PM (#32678770)

now. but not 30yrs ago.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by rxhernandez on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:59AM (#32672546)

I was born in the 90s, been programming since I was 12 (nearly 20 years), and I've only ever heard IBM.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by Semaphor on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:20AM (#32672676)

Do you man the saying? Then yes, I agree.

But using the saying in a way that people unfamiliar with it will (probably) understand it, I agree with OP.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by snowwrestler on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:05AM (#32675718)

The current iteration is probably Google, specifically their office suite that comes with an SSO service.

Are startups in the last ~ 5 years using anything else for email/docs/calendar? Microsoft maybe, but they are already on the list. :-)

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by fsckboy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:44AM (#32672847)

… what’s next?

people getting fired

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by jagged-chisel on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:44PM (#32679084)

never.

laid off. downsized. made redundant.

never fired.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by fsckboy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:27PM (#32683484)

"nobody ever got fired for laying subordinates off"

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by dijit on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:13AM (#32673473)

Kubernetes, probably, based on the mentality.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by themerone on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:20PM (#32685517)

Except for a ton of people at Nokia when they bet the brand on Windows Phone.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by pabs3 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:28AM (#32672728)

> … what’s next?

Open source?

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by ben_w on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:42AM (#32673247)

Isn't that just our version of fusion? Despite constant developments (and a surprisingly large behind the scenes usage), it's been the tech of $time-delay into the future for at least 5 * $time-delay into the past?

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by sph on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:07AM (#32673435)

Open source is already running the software world (React, Go, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, the list is huge)

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by ben_w on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:17AM (#32673512)

Plenty of real fusion in the world too. But even with the open source elements in Android and iOS, the gap between the promise and J. Average's experience (or even from the point of view of how many of us get paid to develop OSS rather than just use it) is that it might as well be Mr. Fusion from BTTF.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by sph on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:54AM (#32673785)

Fusion will have already changed the world if it's very expensive and hard to build, and one can't build a fusion reactor in their backyard. This analogy is starting to stretch a little.

Open-source desktop apps for my grandma are not widespread, but still, open-source runs the world because that's what all the software engineers use to build their closed-source applications.

In the "no one fires you for buying IBM" quote, nobody was talking about Android applications, but business software. These days, no one fires you for buying Linux.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by ben_w on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:58AM (#32675131)

> Fusion will have already changed the world if it's very expensive and hard to build, and one can't build a fusion reactor in their backyard.

The specific type of fusion reactor which people have built in their back yards already has commercial applications.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by ricardbejarano on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:29AM (#32673595)

Cloudflare.

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Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) by nextstepguy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:13AM (#32674331)

bitcoin

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