Understand that things aren’t perfect, and complaining is cathartic. You don’t need to fix everything that people complain about - if someone complains about their car, do you need a “solution”? I complain about my cat’s annoying behaviours all the time, but there’s no acceptable way to fix them.
It’s not a solution for most people.
Agreed. And a lot of it is working around limitations of whatever version of Java was common at the time.
“Visitor pattern” is better implemented as an implementation of Iterator or whatever your language calls that. Everyone knows what “for x in thing” means, but wtf does it mean to “visit” something?
I think Ousterhout’s observation that deep interfaces are more useful is a very astute one. There is a kind of programmer who finds it satisfying to write lots of boilerplate but it doesn’t make the code maintainable.
Short functions can be good because you then name each short section of code, but a comment can offer that more flexibly.
I don’t believe it’s easier than rsync.
Was there a known issue there?
Are you really going to get defensively patronising over this? I think I’mma bounce, lol.
Yeah you might be right.
I should clarify I use GIMP. A lot! But this is one way it sucks. By this point I don’t know what other similar programs even have over it - it finally got adjustment layers after some decades. So if I can recognise this shortcoming anyone should be able to ;)
The other major thing was switching to single window mode. Floating windows for everything was absolutely batshit.
The first two sets of instructions are for drawing a disc, rather than a circle (a disc being a filled-in circle) and don’t extend to drawing a circle easily. The last method does, but it is about 10x as long. The traditional method for drawing a circle was to select the inner circle, save the selection to a channel, grow the selection by the pixel width of the stroke you want, subtract the saved selection, then fill. Wonderful /s
GIMP does not (unless I missed it in a ~recent update) have a shape tool like most image editors. The GIMP documentation in any case suggests using Inkscape for the purpose.
You think people are only suggesting it in cases where it’s appropriate?