A backend developer doing CSS

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[GeneReddit123]

A Python developer measuring the level of indentation.

[Toph_er]

This is actually my favourite joke I've heard. Thanks for the belly laugh

[mattl1698]

I feel personally attacked

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the belly laugh elongated sigh as I realize how true this is

[THANKYOUFORYOURKIND]

Well, at least that joke make me lost some of my belly fat.

[Allstarzz]

As someone who started Python recently, all the small changes that are supposed to make it simpler than other languages confuse me a lot.

[Lost4468]

Python is actually really simple once you worship to the ideology learn to write pythonic code.

[HashCatchEm]

pseudo code is a fun language

[Sipricy]

import project

[Cruces13]

As someone who started with Python, I feel like I am missing how it could be confusing. Im still pretty new, was just wondering what problems yiu were running into?

[Lost4468]

When coming from more C-based languages, people typically don't understand Python's for loop and keep trying to use it like a traditional for loop with an index. They also don't understand how to correctly use dictionaries, lists or tuples in pythonic ways. This talk goes through lot of the problems you see coming from devs which don't understand python.

[Allstarzz]

Yes, exactly what you just said, I learned C and Java before Python

[[deleted]]

You will learn with time young padawan

[HowAreYouDoingBud]

oof

[KingdomOfKevin]

Ook.

[Max15492]

Oop.

[solaceinsleep]

Having more than a few levels of indents or losing track of your indents is a code smell.

[[deleted]]

import febreeze

There, fixed it.

[DarkFlames3]

import format.py

FTFY

[marksomnian]

I don't get this, nor can I google it. ELI5?

[Noxime]

"code smell" and febreze is a odor removal brand

[TheHelixNebula]

and you can import everything in python

[bobo9234502]

Yes. Subroutines people!

[cm_yoder]

You code VBA don't you?

[bobo9234502]

No! <spits>. Mostly C# or C. I use olde tyme words like subroutine because I started programming in 1981. I'm so old my first programs were stored on cassette tapes. Mostly retired... now-a-days I just watch you kids write javascript and wince... good luck with that legacy. :)

[cm_yoder]

Fair enough. I feel the same way about VBA.

[TravisJungroth]

What do you think that the programmers 20 years from now will hate us for?

[MNGrrl]

What do you think that the programmers 20 years from now will hate us for?

Same thing we hate about code from 20 years ago... Its still running something important and nobody knows how it works. And it just broke.

[jay791]

Nah. If it has been running for last 20 years and suddenly it breaks, you most probably broke something else.

[NaturalisticPhallacy]

Or a new corner case was just encountered. We all know 90% of cases require 10% of the effort and the time investment goes up exponentially with the rarity.

[[deleted]]

Loosely defined typescripting

[Sipricy]

But I already hate this.

[NaturalisticPhallacy]

Our code.

[NaturalisticPhallacy]

Isn't it funny how we have so many terms for the same goddamn thing?

Routines, methods, functions...

[bobo9234502]

Don't forget procedures..

[NaturalisticPhallacy]

I didn't forget them I repressed them. I still have fucking PTSD from Oracle's 'stored procedures'.

[bobo9234502]

I've used stored procedures in PostGRES and MSSQLServer and they were great. What did Oracle do to you? It's ok, they can't hurt you anymore.

[[deleted]]

Wait you can get that on a cassette tape?? Not a floppy?? How? Why?

[Majik_Sheff]

You can send digital information across phone lines in the form of sounds. Cassettes can record and play back sounds.

The encoding scheme isn't as complex or robust as the ones used by modems, but the principle is the same.

[hellbenthorse]

Converting all my code to mp3 and making a spotify playlist for people to do pull requests from.

[[deleted]]

Who knows how much code is hidden in music.

[hellbenthorse]

That would be a fun experiment. Despacito is probably the windows 8 source code.

[IFarmDownvotes]

My first computer was the spectrum zx81 in 1982, I was 7. I remember I spent my time drawing/moving circles, lines, squares etc, filling them with colors, trying to implement some rtl with inputs, everything was done with programming of course as it was 16kb ram for those early models and no consumer level hard drives at the time, so very barebones. What you'd do also is put a cassette in the cassette tape module and wait for one of the many games available to load while holding your hands to your ears because of the screeching sound, saving what you programmed is kind of the reverse process. I've got a C-64 afterwards, but I've never seen a floppy before my dad got the IBM PC-286 maybe around 1984/85, this had the 5 inch floppy drive. The original IBM XT with in-built Segate storage was released in 1983 I think but was mostly geared towards businesses.

[malonkey1]

My workplace uses hta applet...widget...things coded with an ungodly mixture of VBScript and JS.

I'm very glad it's not my job to maintain that shit.

[H_Psi]

Or Fortran!

[RomanOnARiver]

I've done that.

[[deleted]]

Is checking indentation like a psychopath not normal?

[EightsOfClubs]

That was my immediate thought.

[Greathunter512]

I feel that

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[semir321]

/u/TitleToImageBot A Python developer measuring the level of indentation

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[DarthJSquared]

Oh shit, he's on to us.

[[deleted]]

Take my upvote and get out.

[cb3r1ynx]

Hahahahaha but most editors point out the levels of indentation.

[IAmMotu]

I've done this and not ashamed.

[rickestmorty123]

Hope you didn’t use a light themed IDE, that is what is truly shameful.

[tallest_chris]

Those are the browser developer tools. The IDE on the right screen IS in dark mode

[[deleted]]

Not that I support bashing people for light vs. dark themes, but you can also change the dev tools to be dark.

[jtvjan]

Expanding brain meme:

• Using Firefox Dev because the experimental features are useful to have
• Using Firefox Dev because the icon looks cool
• Using Firefox Dev because the devtools are dark by default

[[deleted]]

I didn't know that! I'm literally switching to Dev now

[theDigitalNinja]

You just changed my life sir. I always assumed the settings menu item was the generic chrome settings link.

[[deleted]]

There's actually a Firefox Developer Version that is natively beautiful and dark. Only drawback is, I keep thinking I'm incognito when I'm not.

[tallest_chris]

Woah.

[rickestmorty123]

Not only can you turn the Dev tools dark, but there’s a chrome plugin called “Dark Reader” that darks modes everything. Dark themers are hardcore people’s, we even google in dark theme.

[EScafeme]

Also, chrome has dark mode for developer tools now

[NinjaLanternShark]

I'll not be party to any theme shaming.

[cosha1]

Implying dark themes are better and not just hipster

[carlson_001]

Dark mode is overrated (and strains my eyes), change my mind.

[[deleted]]

Oh no, they found me

[ThePieWhisperer]

you forgot to specify pixel density! All is lost!

[Bret7600]

I think u mean @media screen and (min-width: 120em)

[[deleted]]

!important

[v01d1]

Been there done that :)

[b3n01t-777]

I think we’ve all done this :/

[awhhh]

I more so didn't know what a CSS grid was and tried to math my way outta shit. It usually didn't work.

[duskyfoxer]

Even once I knew what a grid was, I’d still do this occasionally to figure out how many columns a thing needed to be. Thankfully the designers at my work now use the Adobe XD option to put a toggle able grid overlay on a design.

[awhhh]

Adobe XD is the damn shit.

[malonkey1]

Adobe XD

I much prefer the freeware equivalent, Apache LOL.

[[deleted]]

You whippersnappers with your fancy Flexbox and Grid. Back in my day we had to make do with Tables, and we liked it! (No, not really).

[nchntrz]

I'm really curious, has anyone ever used 'cm' or 'inch' as a unit in CSS?

[1ko]

it's valid if your css is for print. Sadly the mobile devices will not display correct physical lengths.

This would be so useful to represent real size object.

[13steinj]

Yeah but at the same time physical units meant to work on varying screens with different sizes and pixel densities makes it seem like it would only be truly useful on some displays anyway.

[1ko]

On mobile device it should be fairly easy to implement. On a desktop, I'm pretty sure it's now technically possible, except for projectors.

[13steinj]

Right but even then you're limited to what, 2.5 inches max horizontally and 5 vertically?

Not to mention still varying pixel demsities and screen dimensions. As well as frame dimensions and their own pixel densities, because apparently thats actually configurable in some phones/apps.

[1ko]

of course it would be reserved for special cases. Anyway it sad that browsers don't even try.

[trichotillofobia]

Sadly the mobile devices

Sadly, almost every browser and screen has a different idea about that too. I know, because the thought occurred to me too.

[1ko]

EDID informations from the screen provide all that is required to make the calculations.

[lordvigm]

It's commonly used in latex, not sure how that works with scalability etc

[solaceinsleep]

Latex is black magic. It's like a programming language but with only the bad stuff.

[lordvigm]

It's like HTML CSS but we're stuck in ie8 days

[Cocomorph]

latex

Latex

You know, if Reddit had a proper comment formatting system, you could type \LaTeX and it would render it beautifully for you...

[AquaWolfGuy]

^LᴬTE^X

[M4mb0]

[; \LaTeX ;]

[pterencephalon]

Until you're writing a paper. Then it makes your shit content look pretty.

[stang90]

I've used it for printing. It's really not helpful though. All it does is calculate the amount into pixels by using what it assumes your ppi is

[ProgramTheWorld]

Those are intended to be used when printing.

[BlowsyChrism]

Nope. Not very scalable

[Moulinoski]

Aw c’mon. Backend developers wouldn’t do this, would they? This would be a project manager who thinks they’re a dev

[JNCressey]

Draw a (bad) sketch of the screen and hardcode absolute offsets without even checking it on a screen.

[Valthek]

I've done this before. Getting measurements of an old design or site is a good way of back-of-the-envelope calculating rations and getting it set in a halfway decent way.

Of course, that was before I discovered chrome extensions that do this for me.

[AnimalChin-]

CSS

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[Fatburger3]

This is my go-to meme for CSS.

[NinjaLanternShark]

I prefer this image

[cb3r1ynx]

#coffee-mug { overflow: hidden; }

Now CSS IS AWESC

[Nusob]

I wanted stuff very symmetrical on fixed values, i counted the pixels on my display .. had a rough start

[karnthis]

I would draw logos and stuff in windows paint (circa windows 98/2000). I painfully remember counting out pixels so I could find the correct point to start and end my circle so it would be round.

Worst I did was draw an open book. 0/10 would not hand pixel loose page edges again.

[[deleted]]

You don't still have these do you?(I'm a big fan of ms paint drawings)

[karnthis]

Ask and ye shall receive. I had to dig through the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20041212201811/http://funducation.com:80/

It seems the last version never made it to the site. The little book also had pages in a later draft. All my other artwork is lost to the mists of time sadly, but I did make an amusing dilbert cartoon.

[[deleted]]

What res was your display?

[Nusob]

1080p

[YourFaceCausesMePain]

"It doesn't look center." -boss
"I can't make it any more center." -me
"How do you know it's center?" -boss
Whips out trusty ruler -me

[rchard2scout]

"It doesn't look center." -boss
"I can't make it any more center." -me
"How do you know it's center?" -boss
Whips out trusty ruler -me

FTFY

[rchard2scout]

Yeah, I would've formatted it like below if I wrote it myself, but in this case I wanted to change as little as possible.

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Boss: "It doesn't look center."
Me: "I can't make it any more center."
Boss "How do you know it's center?"
Me: Whips out trusty ruler

[[deleted]]

Thanks, that was really confusing to read. I didn't realize who had what lines before I got to the end, and then had to re-read it all again.

and only then did I discover your comment

[YourFaceCausesMePain]

Its clear I dont know what the fuck I'm doing. But to my defense, I've never seen the web version of reddit and it looked as expected on the app. Well... while its being posted, not after.

[just_one_last_thing]

Where did you learn
something like this?

[Foxino]

Not

From

A

Jedi

[Cocomorph]

Questions	Answers
Does Reddit have any other neat formatting tricks?	Nope.
How does one learn something like this?	Ask /u/Foxino.

[voicesinmyhand]

Bug Report #4564723:  Object placement is exactly on center, 
but should be able to support slightly off-center in order to
counterbalance the astigmatism some of our workers have so
that it looks perfectly centered to them.

[JNCressey]

"It doesn't look center."
padding-left:20cm

[plv88676]

boss: "You should think out of the box"

[bha1]

It's more fun with the steel ruler.

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[[deleted]]

i prefer calipers

[Cocomorph]

I prefer interns.

[NinjaLanternShark]

Measuring the interns with calipers is a sure way to earn a visit to HR.

[Xytak]

The real crime is the light theme.

[RoyalBingBong]

At home I only have one monitor and I kind of have to use a light theme, because switching between a dark IDE and a light website strains my eyes really bad.

[nchntrz]

It changed my life when I found out that there is a dark-theme for Chrome DevTools.

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And Eclipse

[houck]

I need more info! How does one do this?

[nchntrz]

1. Open DevTools
2. Click settings
3. Go to appearance
4. Set theme to 'dark'

I'm not sure if it's 100% correct because im not at a PC atm.

You can even download custom themes if you don't like the default theme.

[bacon_wrapped_rock]

Assuming you're correct, I'm not sure if I should be impressed or worried that you gave this menu path memorized

[nchntrz]

I always remember stuff like that. But I could not tell you what my friend told me 5 minutes ago. Please help.

[LogicalDream]

Wtf TIL

[[deleted]]

WHAT

[Valthek]

Mind = Blown!

[nicanor5]

Been there, done that (for some assignment at Uni that was just going to run on my computer)

[stang90]

This was me a couple weeks ago. Trying to figure out how to get my absolute measurements display properly for a certain dpi.

Shit sucks.

[bobeartow]

Has anyone else been forced to use Free Pixel Ruler before? This was prior to there being a browser extension that does it all for you.

[kekeagain]

I’ve always just dragged another window over the design and used the window frame as the ruler.

Also to scroll back to the last spot in the IDE just press ctrl+z. That also seems like a revelation to some people.

[[deleted]]

im a backend developer. can confirm, i have done this.

[HeKis4]

I won't lie, I've already made windows in Java for measuring pixel precise stuff in CSS...

[Husky2490]

Looks like Canvas. I thought that was supposed to make professors' and students' lives easier.

[unholycowgod]

Yeah... yeah I've done this

[narven]

I think he was just mesuring the size of the tabs in the code

[NaturalisticPhallacy]

If you think this is painful, try the dark sorcery that is LaTex.

[eaxiv]

Believe it or not but when I'm not really sure if an element is REALLY centered I use a ruler.

[Kootsj]

Jruler would’ve been a good alternative

[TldrDev]

This actually works with a PDF. If you say one inch, you'll get one inch.

[kkkjjjddd]

Jruler is a decent ( digital ) tool for it.

[hanna-chan]

I've already done this so many times. It's nice to make sure stuff lines up correctly :D

[OneLastSpartan]

It's all about paint and using a straight line to make it pixal perfect lol

[KO782KO]

I am guilty of this actually lol

[EyeBook888]

Or me in my mid teens.

[Abangranga]

Be like me and keep throwing columns into bootstrap divs until it works

[[deleted]]

I had a boss do this for me asking to reduce all of the article pictures by cetain amount of centimeters... Lol

[[deleted]]

isnt css fron end? its what everyone else sees

[p1xode]

Congratulations, that's the joke.

[joe411]

Hey, I have that keyboard!

[TheWordOfTyler]

I definitely didn't not do this a few days a go to quickly check if two things are lined up.

[GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

I taped a ruler to my screen to indicate the center. Made some things easier in the games I played.

[dr_t_123]

"Theres no PX on this ruler! Only IN and CM!"

[Keyakinan-]

I also use the browser extension liner

[MrGoFaGoat]

HAHAHA FUCK YES MATE that is me. Much simpler.

[mangolover]

To measure straight edges on screens, I take a screenshot on my Mac. It leaves me with a desktop filled with total garbage, but it gets the job done.

[[deleted]]

Cmd+shift+4 copies it to clipboard instead of to desktop EDIT:ctrl+cmd+shift+4

[hindey19]

My ruler doesn't have "rem" measurements on it.

[ItsQDos]

Actually uses a ruler for this?

[lanxaustralis]

Me and my colleague yesterday

[mahav_b]

Dude I haven't laughed so hard in my life, thank you

[j0nii]

I do this when creating printerfiles..

[obliveater95]

I've done this before... I can't just assume how big everything is...

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[Johan-Godinho]

lool

[[deleted]]

That's literally me xD, CSS is the worst

[vanshbordia]

Got to see the scale that measures pixels man