I thought the person in the picture was reading code on a tablet device, and was wondering what is wrong with the picture. :D
Why is the code printed in dark mode!?!
Perhaps it’s an effort to save companies that sell printer cartridges
Maybe they work for HP, it’s their way to give back.
I thought tablet, then I thought the post was about the way they were bending the tablet’s screen with their thumb, then I finally realised it was paper. Holding a printout of a screen shot just didn’t enter my mind.
The answer is simple: Marketing people doing marketing things
And with a file browser sidebar 🤦
Boss gets paid a dollar, I get paid a dime, that’s why I [printscreen and walk to the printer instead of copy/pasting code] on company time.
This is proper procedure when you’re paid by the hour.
Actual image of a python dev trying to write to the console with javascript.
Flask to react migration is hard
This remind me of the “Print your most salient lines of code and bring to me”
Hello, I’m here from all, could someone please explain the joke to me?
It’s not just that they’ve printed the code. I’ve printed code.
It’s that they’ve printed a screenshot of the editor.
You can’t edit code easily if it’s on a piece of paper. It is also stupidity.
Oh. Part of my job is making complicated procedures and sometimes it helps to print them out and go over with a pen. Didn’t realize that doesn’t work for code. Now I know!
Likewise - it’s only happened a few times in my life, but there have been moments in a 2k-line long SQL stored proc I inherited that I needed to print the thing off and user markers to try group code up and figure out what was happening (it was a monstrosity with no formatting or comments lol)
But yeah day to day, even year to year nobody is printing off their code to look at it - let alone only 20 lines of it lol
It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if there weren’t IDEs that would help you review your code more easily.
Think of a text document you would scan for typos. Sure it would help you to print it out and read it on paper. But finding them with words auto correction is much faster.
This kind of auto correction is also present in IDEs (integrated development environment / the program you use to do the actually coding). You can also jump from one part of your code to another part for a quick lookup or analyze it with its help.
So printing it out not only doesn’t let you editing it it also slows down reviewing / debugging / refactoring it.
It does work for code… just not like this.
and apart from what the others said, if you’d decide to print the code for some reason, printing colored text on black background would be pretty wasteful way to do it
Image of Musk reading code he asked to be printed
yeah we’re printing all TPS reports in dark mode before they go out.
…did you see the memo about this?
Twitter employee?
Wait is this not how everyone reviews code?
Gotta write it up on a whiteboard so it’s easier to edit
Thanks for the tip! I’ll suggest this up with my scrum master in our next half day daily meeting.
Bloody hell, why did the designer print the new UI mockup?
and always make sure to print your code in dark mode, don’t want anyone who sees it to think you’re weird
somewhere some printer-ink making corporate is happy with that pic.
The 1 trick Big Screen doesn’t want you to know. Instead of buying multiple monitors, just print out the window before minimizing it.
hahahahaha, this got me
