Don Box's Porsche IUNKNWN
Otávio Décio
2009-02-01 21:43:33
Is his Porsche a Boxster? :)
Greg Hewgill
2009-02-02 01:53:08
Probably not, this one I heard in 1999 when I attended one of his courses in California. He later changed plates to INFOSET when he moved to Microsoft.
Otávio Décio
2009-02-02 02:02:18
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I called the DMV in Maryland a few years ago to see if 1000101 was available, but was told it was already issued.
Sean Bright
2009-02-01 21:43:46
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I was very envious not long ago when I got behind CCODER on the highway. (Mostly jealous of the inventive plate, not so much his occupation.)
Bill the Lizard
2009-02-01 21:52:55
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When I was at school in the late 80s, it amused me that my step-mother's car had a license plate where the letters where LDA. For anyone that did 8-bit assembly you'll know this stands for LoaD Accumulator - and the number part of the license plate would have been the operand to that.
Of course these days I'm far too socially integrated for such things to attract my attention. Ahem.
Phil Nash
2009-02-01 22:18:57
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A colleague here in Las Vegas has CSHARP and he does not know C# very well at all. I think he also plays music so its kind of a cop-out, in my opinion, but I really want that plate.
goldenratio
2009-02-01 22:22:07
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I swear I saw a MATLAB license plate once somewhere around Cincinnati. I know there is a picture of a car with one that ships with the MATLAB Optimization Toolbox (picture is on Seth's blog).
gnovice
2009-02-01 22:36:41
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I always thought it would be cool to come up with something that fit into the state's pattern:
For Example, in Washington State USA you could have:
512 XML
486 PHP
128 VBS
etc.
That way it wouldn't even look like a vanity plate to all of the hords of non-geeks. An inside joke.
jrcs3
2009-02-01 23:04:11
The ÜBR-Geek one is fake though, that's not a legal plate in Germany.
Michael Stum
2009-02-01 23:12:28
It might not be Photoshoped at least. Several places in the US don't require a front licence plate so it would be OK if registered there.
BCS
2009-07-31 20:23:58
802.11N -- simply brilliant! But only those familiar with the IEEE code for wireless networks would understand.
Jenko
2009-11-21 02:56:31
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My friends have DEVCAR1 DEVCAR2 and DEVCAR3, which I have always liked.
When I was in grad school many moons ago I had STNFDAI
(OK, maybe not that clever, but my parents thought it was cute:)
notruthless
2009-02-02 03:07:07
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One of my favorite college professors drove a Renault Le Car with the plate "LA CDR". He claimed at the time (ca. 1984) that I was one of only a few people who got the joke...
RBerteig
2009-02-26 22:21:00
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I was behind "A CODER" on the way home tonight. I occasionally see some variation of "BUG FIXR" in the parking lot at work.
Dan Olson
2009-04-03 03:58:36
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Two co-workers have ENODEV and RTFM.
The former develops *nix device drivers and latter is a test engineering manager.
system PAUSE
2009-04-03 04:03:12
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I saw an "ASCII 27" in Virginia once.
Similarly, I knew a guy who had "0X263A", but that one was pretty obscure.
Nicholas Piasecki
2009-04-03 04:47:15
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I know the guy who owns the shop that makes one of the major first person shooters serials. IIRC he got into the field by doing some research on light modeling.
His licence plate: 3DGFX
BCS
2009-07-31 20:29:50