Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
Centering things is a graphic design problem, not a computer science problem.
As a computer science problem it ends at position = window center / 2 - object width / 2
Is not always this simple though. If the window has yet to be spawned in some languages the width will be unavailable, until after. Sometimes the window can be seen before it moves to the center which is a bit jarring.
That's a pretty good summary of the article actually.
The design is bad because the people who made the tools are doing a bad job.
The hardest graphic design problem is indıcatıng sarcasm in a way only autıstıc people notice.
Edit: this was sarcasm, and so is the artıcle's tıtle.
That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge.
Ha, I swear, this must be sarcasm.
Great article nonetheless!
Haha yeah, I get what you mean. I think the author might mean "people who actively choose to do primarily web programming", and isn't being sarcastic. It's baffling to me too, but I am glad that this subsection of odd challenge seekers exist, even if I can't fathom people genuinely loving web programming.
Centering with CSS hasn't been a problem since the death of IE in like 2016. That's 8 years ago.
Have you read the article?
The dark mode on this site... Hardest I've laughed in a while. A+ trolling
Edit: only works on desktop by the looks
It seemed pretty clear to me that the article states that css is doing it's job and it's actually fonts that are the problem
Meanwhile in reality css totally confounds the well paid experts in c# and the whole world suffers.
But yea fonts…
Like the other dude, I didn't get through a quarter of that article because of the stupid mouse pointer trolling. It seemed like a joke article, so I left a joke comment.
thought Saint Terry A. Davis already pointed out what actually is the hardest problem in CS
I know very little about this subject - is this guy right?
Look at the pictures of bad examples. If at least half of them mildly infuriate you, he's right. I disagree with icons-in-a-text-file with him because in a pinch (when you care so little about the font that you just use
sans-serif), Unicode icons look passable if you overlook the platform inconsistencies. Of course, there is no gear icon but what are you gonna do about it? The ⚙️ emoji is close enough.No. It’s a joke. Proper computer science is not about this level of computer programming. Computer science is more a field of mathematics that studies the computability of things. Like making the traveling salesman problem more efficient. Or how to most efficiently determine if a giant number is prime. Or how to scramble a message such that it is unduly difficult to unscramble without a key factor.
At one point about 15 years ago he would have been right. Now? No, he is wrong.
