Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 2018-01-28 15:04:26 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. For your amusment, here is how a well-known German tech news site publishes source-

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Gilmeh Serda wrote: > > M$'s excuse for a real Terminal, "Power" Shell (sigh), is _slightly_ > better but still lacking lots of features. Like a decent scripting > language. I loath VBS. ¦þ,,, /puke PowerShell is a .NET scripting language that's available in Window

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 11:17:45 PM UTC+5:30, Adriaan Renting wrote: > I am Dutch and after googling the term, I can confirm that the "Dutch > Reach" is taught in driving school here. > I was taught this maneuvre when getting my licence 20 years ago. > And in the Netherlands, we large

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:14:45 +0100, Adriaan Renting wrote: > I am Dutch and after googling the term, I can confirm that the "Dutch > Reach" is taught in driving school here. I was taught this maneuvre when > getting my licence 20 years ago. Thanks for the data point. Was it a requirement of the d

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

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Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:22:39 +0100, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: > On 01/29/2018 03:48 PM, alister via Python-list wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:20:06 +0100, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: >> >>> On 01/28/2018 04:43 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: I've never been a Windows user, but at my current job, Windows

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

it seems that at the end, invariably, the subject becomes well routed to regions far away from codeland Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://abdurrahmaanjanhangeer.wordpress.com On 28 Jan 2018 19:08, "Steven D'Aprano" < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:39:26 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote: > Also, I just wanted to add that if you're going to use the side mirror > then you need to watch it for a couple of seconds rather than a quick > glance. Most people's mirrors are not particularly well adjusted to > capture the car's blind spot

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On 2018-01-30, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> Unless the bike lane is between the "parallel parking lane" and the >> curb[*], in which case it's the passenger side doors that are used to >> catch bicycles rather than the driver's side doors. >> >> [*] This seems to be increasingly common here in the Minnea

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:41:36 + (UTC), Steven D'Aprano declaimed the following: Its the component of the router that actually handles the telecommunications side of things. Legend has it that once upon a time they were a stand alone device. Even more distant legend suggests that modems ex

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 01/29/2018 03:48 PM, alister via Python-list wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:20:06 +0100, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: On 01/28/2018 04:43 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: I've never been a Windows user, but at my current job, Windows is core to just about everything, so I am forced to use it for a lot of

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:46:59 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 29 Jan 2018 17:26:32 GMT, Peter Pearson > declaimed the following: > >> >>In 1964, the IBM exhibit at the World's Fair in New York demonstrated >>a system that read dates that visitors wrote by hand. (You were >>supposed to write y

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote: >> >>> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're >>> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however. >> >

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On 2018-01-30 15:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: [...] Ah, yes, the Dutch Reach. That would be like the French Pox (which isn't French), the Spanish Flu (that didn't start in Spain), the Jerusalem artichoke (which is neither an artichoke nor fro

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 30/01/18 16:47, alister via Python-list wrote: The British TV show QI seemed to think this is actually part of the Dutch driving test although they have been known to make mistakes It has to be noted that the QI Elves did not do particularly well in Only Connect... -- Rhodri James *-* Kyn

Re: [OT] Text as digitization [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > We're talking about *programmers* here -- if they can't cope with the > highly stylised textual medium in which they work, they're going to > really struggle to, you know, actually program. Well, to be fair, many of them do (struggle to actually program,

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:28:58 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:32:11 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 8:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for >>> trivial pieces of text, a

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote: > >> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're >> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however. > > That's a fair point. > > But it really only applies to those

Re: [OT] Text as digitization [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Text is a highly stylized unnatural medium > [chomp] > >> That people who have not been cultured in a certain way can do >> aggravating things like talking with pics instead of tex

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote: > Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're > sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however. That's a fair point. But it really only applies to those sitting on the driver's side in the back seat. On

[OT] Text as digitization [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > Text is a highly stylized unnatural medium Hmmm. I think it is no more "unnatural" than whale songs or the extremely formalised dancing rituals of birds or any other animal communication. Our species just takes this communication to a hig

Re: [OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 at 15:39 Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > This effectively and completely undermines the supposed claim that this > technique makes it *automatic* to look behind you for on-coming cyclists. > That simply isn't the case. Whether you use the arm cl

[OT] Dutch Reach [was Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: [...] >> Ah, yes, the Dutch Reach. That would be like the French Pox (which >> isn't French), the Spanish Flu (that didn't start in Spain), the >> Jerusalem artichoke (which is neither an artichoke nor from Jerusalem), >> and the turkey (the b

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 1:02:12 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:32:11 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 8:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > >> I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > >

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:32:11 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 8:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial >> pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying >> the code. >

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 8:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which i

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > XD since we were elaborating on the reasons why users use screenshot, well i > was elaborating why users use screenshot, not me. those are some reasons i > came across being admin in some whatsapp groups and python lists (wher

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

XD since we were elaborating on the reasons why users use screenshot, well i was elaborating why users use screenshot, not me. those are some reasons i came across being admin in some whatsapp groups and python lists (where the user complains of his attachments not showing).

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > well maybe screenshot of shell sessions to show varying formatted test > cases might be valid (like the increasingly popular practise of coding py > on android) Maybe, but that isn't code. > also, sreenshot sources tend to be sy

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

well maybe screenshot of shell sessions to show varying formatted test cases might be valid (like the increasingly popular practise of coding py on android) also, sreenshot sources tend to be syntax colored which might be easier to read. overall it is a bad idea as you won't have the full code if

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 01/29/2018 02:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:43:36 -0800, John Ladasky wrote: On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:34:34 +, John Gordon wrote: [...] > The displayed filename in File Explorer was input.txt -- meaning that > the real filename was actually input.txt.txt, because File Explorer > shows file extensions as a separate column. > > Without this screenshot, we would have had o

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:43:36 -0800, John Ladasky wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet >> forever.) > > What

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 2018-01-29, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > Modems are still around. They have simply evolved from the 300 baud > acoustic coupler. Those did _not_ work well with "trimline" style phones, but you could get by if you wrapped it in a couple towels, stuffed it in a small cooler, and kept the TV volume low

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

Am 2018-01-29 hackte John Ladasky in die Tasten: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet >> forever.) > > What's a... m

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 01/29/2018 01:43 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) > > What's a... modem?

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:43 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) > > What's a...

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:34 PM, John Gordon wrote: > > The displayed filename in File Explorer was input.txt -- meaning that the > real filename was actually input.txt.txt, because File Explorer shows file > extensions as a separate column. One of the first things I do after creating an account

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:43 AM, John Ladasky wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) > > What's a...

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code > out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) What's a... modem? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

In Steven D'Aprano writes: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. In some (perhaps rare) cases, a screenshot can provide useful independent verification. Such a screensho

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:24:55 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: [snip] > > Is it really true that OCR appeared long before Neural Networks > (NN's)? I first heard of NN's in the 80's, but OCR more like the > 90's. In 1964, the IBM exhibit at the World's Fair in New York demonstrated a system that read

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 29/01/18 04:29, Dan Stromberg wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: If an NN can ... play go on a level that can beat the best human in the world Correcting myself: I think Google's AlphaGo used more than one NN, plus perhaps a little traditional reading algorithm.

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:17:39 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet >> forever.) > > Shh! Don't give them ideas! just wait, once they reali

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:20:06 +0100, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: > On 01/28/2018 04:43 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> I've never been a Windows user, but at my current job, Windows is core >> to just about everything, so I am forced to use it for a lot of stuff >> (Outlook, SQL Server, Excel, etc). > > I

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:11:12 +, Stefan Ram wrote: > Tim Delaney writes: >>These are support people who are employed by the company I'm contracted >>to. >>Doesn't matter how often I try to train them otherwise, this type of >>thing keeps happening. > > That might be more a problem of power.

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 01/28/2018 04:43 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: I've never been a Windows user, but at my current job, Windows is core to just about everything, so I am forced to use it for a lot of stuff (Outlook, SQL Server, Excel, etc). I was hired at a startup which made a good impression on me and I was ea

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > If an NN can ... play go on a level that can beat the best human in the > world Correcting myself: I think Google's AlphaGo used more than one NN, plus perhaps a little traditional reading algorithm. So I probably should have said "If NN's

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:13:05 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> It feel like it'd be possible to train a neural network to translate >> text in a screenshot to plain text though. > > That would be OCR, which has been around long before neural n

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences > *eve

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:13:05 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I'm afraid the perspective may be: > Text == primitive > GUI == modern > > It feel like it'd be possible to train a neural network to translate > text in a screenshot to plain text though. That would be OCR, which has been around long be

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:27:07 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:55:54 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote: > >> I got back a Word document containing about 10 screenshots where they'd >> apparently taken a screenshot, moved the horizontal scrollbar one >> screen, taken another screenshot

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

I'm afraid the perspective may be: Text == primitive GUI == modern It feel like it'd be possible to train a neural network to translate text in a screenshot to plain text though. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 29 January 2018 at 11:27, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:55:54 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote: > > > I got back a Word document containing about 10 screenshots where they'd > > apparently taken a screenshot, moved the horizontal scrollbar one >

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:55:54 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote: > I got back a Word document containing about 10 screenshots where they'd > apparently taken a screenshot, moved the horizontal scrollbar one > screen, taken another screenshot, etc. You're lucky they didn't just take a single screen shot, th

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) Shh! Don't give them ideas! -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 29 January 2018 at 02:04, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. I don't tend to see this from programmers I

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:41 AM, wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 3:27:06 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: >> > On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from idea

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 3:27:06 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > > On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from ideal for > >> copying and pasting from > > > > It’

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:54:31 +, Tim Golden wrote: > >> At least for Windows users, grabbing a partial screenshot (eg of text) >> has been very easy since Windows 7 when the "Snipping Tool" was added to >> the builtins. > > Thanks, I did

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico wrote: >> The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from ideal for >> copying and pasting from > > It’s been fixed in recent Windows 10 releases (select and Ctrl+C works now). Haven't

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico wrote: > The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from ideal for > copying and pasting from It’s been fixed in recent Windows 10 releases (select and Ctrl+C works now). > Windows error popups are *impossible* to copy text from. Most stand

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 1/28/2018 10:54 AM, Tim Golden wrote: On 28/01/2018 15:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying the code. This happens on Stackoverflow too. There, one can vote

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 2018-01-28, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I've noticed it as well. I suspect it's from the Windows universe where > it's common to snip a bit of the screen which isn't pure text when asking > about some problematic GUI thing which is causing problems. It's definitely a Windows thing. Most Windows

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Certainly easier for the average user than trying to do a >> slightly tricky rectangle selection within the Windows console. > > But I'm not seeing that it could possibly be easier than selecting text > and hitting copy and paste. Not even

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sunday 28 January 2018 10:55:30 Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2018-01-28 15:04:26 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for > > trivial pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead > > of copying the code. > > > > Where has t

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:54:31 +, Tim Golden wrote: > At least for Windows users, grabbing a partial screenshot (eg of text) > has been very easy since Windows 7 when the "Snipping Tool" was added to > the builtins. Thanks, I didn't know that. > Certainly easier for the average user than try

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 2018-01-28 15:04:26 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? Twitter? You can't send more than 140 character

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On 28/01/2018 15:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying the code. Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences *everyone* involved: - for

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

I've noticed it as well. I suspect it's from the Windows universe where it's common to snip a bit of the screen which isn't pure text when asking about some problematic GUI thing which is causing problems. I've never been a Windows user, but at my current job, Windows is core to just about everyth

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 03:04:26PM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code > out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) And the clever hack will be to send a WAV that tricks your modem into surprising

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:04:26 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences

Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying the code. Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences *everyone* involved: - for the sender, instead of a simple copy and p