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I see a lot of cropped screenshots on support forums, when really it would be better if the poster took the screenshot of the whole window, and then just highlighted the area they are worried about with a red square (or if you are a StackOverflow user, a freehand red circle ;)). Often the answer lies outside the area the poster thinks is relevant and if one could see it immediately, it would save lots of questions an…
> This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team.
This piece is so littered with ads (one per paragraph) that it is impossible to read without an ad blocker.
I see a lot of cropped screenshots on support forums, when really it would be better if the poster took the screenshot of the whole window, and then just highlighted the area they are worried about with a red square (or if you are a StackOverflow user, a freehand red circle ;)). Often the answer lies outside the area the poster thinks is relevant and if one could see it immediately, it would save lots of questions an…
Re: annotated screenshots, there once was a module that allowed making snapshots of GTK windows as PDFs: https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot Edit: here it is in action, with selectable text: https://www.joachim-breitner.de/various/pdf_screenshot_3.pdf
Wow.
I want to click at the UI in the PDF :( it's not working :(
To OP -- in the spirit of the article -- it's an uphill task to separate the content from the witticisms here. IMO it would have been a better read with fewer jokes.
((Who gets the reference?))
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That's, sadly, the Web these days. Even with adblockers, I see the "advertisement" lines remaining in articles. Often every paragraph or two.
With Javascript disabled, I don't see them at all
> Then there are the well-meaning spirits who discovered the developer console and send these with worried emojis: All too true. The worst I've ever gotten was an email titled "Problem!" (or similar), the body was several of the grimacing and throwing up emojis, and attached was a screenshot of a (long and ugly) SQL query without the attached results. When I asked if they could send the results over, or at least a co…
In this situation I think there was never a real, valid problem in the first place.
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What's the alternative?
Learning to describe your problem. Specific knowledge aside, I am always astonished that people not being able to coherently read and write is getting worse. That's something YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook don't teach I guess?
To OP -- in the spirit of the article -- it's an uphill task to separate the content from the witticisms here. IMO it would have been a better read with fewer jokes.
To _you_, this person wrote https://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1 (and 18 more parts, which I only put down because my body required sleep), https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks , and everything over at https://www.stilldrinking.org/essays.php . ((Who gets the reference?))
Bravo; I have never seen a more perfectly succinct illustration of the fundamental problem of human existence.
It's a struggle to remember that nobody else is inside your head, but damn, that realization makes everything easier to deal with.