Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
I know the word but never use it myself, even among people that I know know it, because it sounds ugly. It’s the first syllable that does it.
Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
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Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ahh, stack overflow. Hugely popular thread with a lot of engagement? Lets lock it. Wouldn’t want to encourage behavior that doesn’t match our narrow minded “vision” for the site. Still though, an improvement over the early years where they just outright deleted countless pages with countless contributions. In the end it’s their site and they can run it however they want, but it’s sad to see such massive potential squ…
I do like that they are focused on being a collaborative Q&A site, nothing more and nothing less. Some sites care so much about "engagement" that they try to be all things to all people and end up simply becoming yet another generic forum. I have other issues with SO but having a USP and sticking with it isn't their problem, IMHO.
I adblock Hot Network Questions because it always distracts me when I'm looking for programming help.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#113Lecturing on keyboard shortcuts when windows media player is the only video player in the world not using the space bar as a shortcut for play/pause.
Disney Plus doesn't either, most annoying thing ever. Has me wondering why there's no open source 'streaming website' the only value add is the content.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pleae be nice to the 2374568234th user that could not manage to read any manual or just google for his error message before opening a new question!
It's not always that simple. Half of the time when I run into errors, there's no one solution that either works or 100% applies to my case so it's a lot of trial and error. I'm also not the most skilled developer and manuals are often way too verbose and difficult to parse if they don't contain very clear examples. Sometimes, we just need someone to help translate our needs into a different wording and everything cli…
I think a lot of people's frustration comes from questions where it's abundantly clear that the asker searched neither SO nor the web first.
It only takes a few dozens of "why is [insert programming language]'s {addition, multiplication, subtraction, division} broken?!?!" questions that are all pointed to What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers before you lose all faith in humanity and get cranky. It's quite understandable.
If you can take the time to make an SO account and write a title and question body, why not Google that title first?
Another class of almost offensive questions is exemplified by this question on the front page for me right now: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64087844/programming-tiv... . The user states what he wants, then completely useless debugging information, then a wall of code that in no way complies with the SO guidelines of reducing your code to a minimal working example, and finally an all-caps expression of personal feelings. Come on – nobody would feel sorry for someone acting like this in the real world. There are a few basic rules for social interactions.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, I've seen similar stuff in the Linux/UNIX world. Whenever different software components interact there's a chance you need some stupid stuff to get them to play nice. As some issues get fixed over time, new ones arrive since something gets swapped out for the next big thing. The interaction of X, the display manager, logind and dbus on session start comes to mind. There's been stupid stuff in Xsession.d et al ove…
Well, if anyone is still using screensavers in 2020, there is a good chance they’re running a 90’s system too :)
Those things are distracting a hell, so it's no surprise many workplaces mandate them.
But it's never xscreensaver, of course.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#116Pulchritude!? Boy, I had to look that one up!
I learned this word (actually, it was pulchritudinous) from the DOS game Hyperspeed last year when I streamed a blind playthrough of it. To date, this is only the second usage I have ever seen of it.
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But key events should be on key-down Why? I like how keyup is less ambiguous: it avoids the question “what do I do if the user is holding the key down?” I also like being able to hold the key down to cue up a command and then at the right time, pull my hand away to execute crisply. For video editing mainly. I’m not saying keyup is the only answer. Just that there isn’t one obvious answer.
Keydowns have the physical button analogue: when you press a physical button, it immediately closes the contact, it doesn't wait until you lift your finger again. Not saying key down is better than key up, there are certainly arguments for both.
Now THERE's a rabbit-hole if ever I saw one. Here's an 8-part (!) article [0] on why a physical button is in reality... nowhere near that simple.
[0]: https://www.eejournal.com/article/ultimate-guide-to-switch-d...
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
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I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here; pulchritude twice as rare as disharmonious, which is relatively rare. It’s an order of magnitude rarer than effervescent, as an example, which is a word I would consider uncommon but in most people’s vocabularies. And given how much more common pulchritude is - surely physical beauty is one of the most common subjects in any language - while disharmony and effervescence ar…
Except that pulchritude beats disharmonious for over a hundred years. And even now, it’s half as common as disharmonious, which is a commonplace word. But if you think that a word like “disharmonious” is in any sense rare, then I don’t think I can convince you with data.
Disharmonious just seems common because it sounds similar to a word we're familiar with. Most times I can recall, a writer would craft a sentence using the word 'disharmony' instead, which is many times more common than either. What led you to pick disharmonious as a comparison point, anyway?
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not always that simple. Half of the time when I run into errors, there's no one solution that either works or 100% applies to my case so it's a lot of trial and error. I'm also not the most skilled developer and manuals are often way too verbose and difficult to parse if they don't contain very clear examples. Sometimes, we just need someone to help translate our needs into a different wording and everything cli…
I think a lot of people's frustration comes from questions where it's abundantly clear that the asker searched neither SO nor the web first. It only takes a few dozens of "why is [insert programming language]'s {addition, multiplication, subtraction, division} broken?!?!" questions that are all pointed to What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers before you lose all faith in humanity and get cran…
Or, even more annoyingly, when you Google something and the first result is the exact problem you have, with the answer being someone pointing out that the solution can easily be found by googling...
People like you seem to forget that not only the question-asker profits from an answer, but future people as wel...
Re: Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
#120OT: There's an thread on SO with a collection of awesome comments in code. Well worth a read. If not for the insight, than for the chuckle: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
Ahh, stack overflow. Hugely popular thread with a lot of engagement? Lets lock it. Wouldn’t want to encourage behavior that doesn’t match our narrow minded “vision” for the site. Still though, an improvement over the early years where they just outright deleted countless pages with countless contributions. In the end it’s their site and they can run it however they want, but it’s sad to see such massive potential squ…
Lol, that's funny coming from a commentor on THIS site! This is the first comment I've made here in a longtime, because anything that goes against the hivemind here gets downvoted to Oblivion.