Pet peeve du jour
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I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems. This means a display on top of a cabinet that's the operator panel for the machine. I really, really hate getting "screen captures" that are phone pictures. From three feet away :mad:.
Software Zen:
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I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems. This means a display on top of a cabinet that's the operator panel for the machine. I really, really hate getting "screen captures" that are phone pictures. From three feet away :mad:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Try looking at any of the programming forums on Reddit. Endless reams of questions about code which don't include the code, or even a screenshot of the code; instead, they include a low-res photo of their monitor with some of the code on it. :doh: It's a great reminder of one of the many reasons why CodeProject's QA doesn't allow pictures.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Try looking at any of the programming forums on Reddit. Endless reams of questions about code which don't include the code, or even a screenshot of the code; instead, they include a low-res photo of their monitor with some of the code on it. :doh: It's a great reminder of one of the many reasons why CodeProject's QA doesn't allow pictures.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
If you want to code, but you can't take a screen shot using print screen or something you need to pack it in and find a different calling. Maybe I'm being harsh.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems. This means a display on top of a cabinet that's the operator panel for the machine. I really, really hate getting "screen captures" that are phone pictures. From three feet away :mad:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems.
I've never understood how someone so nice can work in such an industry.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems.
I've never understood how someone so nice can work in such an industry.
Rage wrote:
I've never understood how someone so nice
Thank you :-\ .
Rage wrote:
can work in such an industry
I'm afraid the consumer inkjet industry copied our business model. We sell hardware (printing press plus the inkjet) more-or-less at cost, and then make earnings on ink and maintenance. It takes years of equipment sales, ink, and service on a product line to recoup development costs and to begin making a profit. This has been How Things Are Done in commercial printing (not just inkjet) since Gutenberg :sigh: .
Software Zen:
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If you want to code, but you can't take a screen shot using print screen or something you need to pack it in and find a different calling. Maybe I'm being harsh.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
It might be that they are in a lab that doesn't have outside internet connectivity or has Reddit in particular blocked. I do that wooden table sort of nonsense in similar situations where it's just easier to do that than to jump through all the hoops of shuttling a file from a PC/laptop to a cell phone (so as to use the cell's internet). There are some apps that will cut/paste between cell and PC/laptop. Not always convenient/possible though. My new favorite life hack for it is to start a draft gmail and attach the file and just leave it sitting like a temp drop box until I grab it from the other device(s).
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It might be that they are in a lab that doesn't have outside internet connectivity or has Reddit in particular blocked. I do that wooden table sort of nonsense in similar situations where it's just easier to do that than to jump through all the hoops of shuttling a file from a PC/laptop to a cell phone (so as to use the cell's internet). There are some apps that will cut/paste between cell and PC/laptop. Not always convenient/possible though. My new favorite life hack for it is to start a draft gmail and attach the file and just leave it sitting like a temp drop box until I grab it from the other device(s).
Half the time there's a cat or something in the picture so you know they're taking it at home.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems. This means a display on top of a cabinet that's the operator panel for the machine. I really, really hate getting "screen captures" that are phone pictures. From three feet away :mad:.
Software Zen:
delete this;Du jour? I've several times commented to out service desk people that, never mind the operators, can't we at least train the field tech engineers to use the Print Screen button when reporting a problem. A full screen image would infinitely better that some of the photos we get taken from to far away to be useful, at a slight angle and with a bright light reflecting off the screen for good measure! Since we have remote access to the operator workstations it wouldn't matter if they left the file on the PC...
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Half the time there's a cat or something in the picture so you know they're taking it at home.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Well, at least you got a picture of a cat out of the problem :-D .
Software Zen:
delete this;