On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences > *everyone* involved: > > - for the sender, instead of a simple copy and paste, they have to take a > screen shot, possibly trim the image to remove any bits of the screen > they don't want to show, attach it to their email or upload it to an > image hosting site; > > - for the receiver, you are reliant on a forum which doesn't strip > attachments, or displays externally hosted images; the visually impaired > are excluded from using a screen reader; and nobody can copy or edit the > given text. > > It is as if people are deliberately inconveniencing themselves in order > to inconvenience the people they are asking to help them. > > With the exception of one *exceedingly* overrated advantage, namely the > ability to annotate the image with coloured lines and circles and > squiggles or other graphics (which most people don't bother to do), this > seems to me to be 100% counter-productive for everyone involved. Why has > it spread and why do people keep doing it? > > I don't want to be the old man yelling "Get Of My Lawn!" to the cool > kids, but is this just another sign of the downward spiral of programming > talent? Convince me that there is *some* justification for this practice. > Even a tiny one. > > (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code > out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.)
I work remotely and have for over 20 years. At first I communicated with my colleagues via phone and email. Then it was skype for a while but then it went back to email. Then IRC had a moment, then it was slack for a while, then back to email. Now everyone seems to be switching to google hangouts, both chat and video. Recently I have seen that some people are sending screen shots of their code and/or error messages instead of copy/pasting. It's mostly with the younger ones, and I do not care for it at all, but I did not want to be the old fogy, so I did not say anything. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
