Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    7 months ago

    Centering things is a graphic design problem, not a computer science problem.

      • Trollception@lemmy.world
        11·
        7 months ago

        Is not always this simple though. If the window has yet to be spawned in some languages the width will be unavailable, until after. Sometimes the window can be seen before it moves to the center which is a bit jarring.

    • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      That’s a pretty good summary of the article actually.

      The design is bad because the people who made the tools are doing a bad job.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
      14·
      7 months ago

      The hardest graphic design problem is indıcatıng sarcasm in a way only autıstıc people notice.

      Edit: this was sarcasm, and so is the artıcle’s tıtle.

  • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

    That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge.

    Ha, I swear, this must be sarcasm.

    Great article nonetheless!

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      Haha yeah, I get what you mean. I think the author might mean “people who actively choose to do primarily web programming”, and isn’t being sarcastic. It’s baffling to me too, but I am glad that this subsection of odd challenge seekers exist, even if I can’t fathom people genuinely loving web programming.

  • themusicman@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 months ago

    The dark mode on this site… Hardest I’ve laughed in a while. A+ trolling

    Edit: only works on desktop by the looks

    • spartanatreyu
      51·
      7 months ago

      It seemed pretty clear to me that the article states that css is doing it’s job and it’s actually fonts that are the problem

      • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Meanwhile in reality css totally confounds the well paid experts in c# and the whole world suffers.

        But yea fonts…

      • onlinepersonaEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        Like the other dude, I didn’t get through a quarter of that article because of the stupid mouse pointer trolling. It seemed like a joke article, so I left a joke comment.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

  • anti-idpol action
    3·
    7 months ago

    thought Saint Terry A. Davis already pointed out what actually is the hardest problem in CS

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      Look at the pictures of bad examples. If at least half of them mildly infuriate you, he’s right. I disagree with icons-in-a-text-file with him because in a pinch (when you care so little about the font that you just use sans-serif), Unicode icons look passable if you overlook the platform inconsistencies. Of course, there is no gear icon but what are you gonna do about it? The ⚙️ emoji is close enough.

    • pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
      23·
      7 months ago

      No. It’s a joke. Proper computer science is not about this level of computer programming. Computer science is more a field of mathematics that studies the computability of things. Like making the traveling salesman problem more efficient. Or how to most efficiently determine if a giant number is prime. Or how to scramble a message such that it is unduly difficult to unscramble without a key factor.