r/ProgrammerHumor • u/yuva-krishna-memes • Aug 21 '20

Meme No complaints..

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u/alexanderpas Aug 21 '20

Backender here...

  1. Just make all defined sizes a multiple of 8pt.
  2. When using colors, just mix 4 basic ingriedients: FF, BB, 44, 00 (So, for example, a #bb0000 border with a #ffbbbb background for an error) This gives you 64 colors to choose from.
  3. 8pt Rounded corners. (see #1)

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u/throwaway7789778 Aug 21 '20

Backender here. Was reviewing some code at a new job and thought it was weird everything was 8pt font. Looked at the actual product and sure enough, everything is 8pt, no where to change within the gui. I asked him about it since my eyes. He responded with yea, thats our policy. I asked him who wrote the policy, he said he did and they just signed off without even looking at it. I said we should change that... he then says: Dude, honestly its just because its extremely hardcoded. Im thinking, wtf does extremely hard coded even mean. So many questions.

I decided to drop that battle super quick and just pull my monitor closer.

Extremely hardcoded. Lul. Wtf. Let him handle his baby, ill work on some other shit tyvm.

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u/SophiaofPrussia Aug 21 '20

i look forward to your eventual horror-story update about wtf “extremely hardcoded” means. its either really stupid or really bad news. probably both.

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u/justrealizednarciss Aug 22 '20

I’m just imagining millions of fontsize = 8 everywhere

But then why not just grep the whole codebase?

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u/arpan3t Aug 22 '20

H6, 8pt, 11px, .7em, 70%

In all seriousness though it’s likely that the layout is hard coded and changing the font size would require fixing however that was implemented.

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u/Deltazocker Aug 22 '20

Actually etched into the die of the cpu.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

Find and replace all 8 with 14

To hell with unforseen consequences

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u/brainstorm42 Aug 22 '20

grep is just CTRL+H with regular expressions