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90% of frontend development is gathering the requirements. The other 90% is trying to get CSS to center a div.
by fswd 4y ago
90% of frontend development is gathering the requirements. The other 90% is trying to get CSS to center a div.
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- hk__2 4y agoThis jokes only works if you never used flex.
- ryanmcbride 4y agothis joke is older than flex
- dkersten 4y agoFlexbox makes it a lot easier, but it’s not fool proof. I’ve had situations where even flex refused to center something because it was ensured strangely (but out of my control), or because the containers size wasn’t being inherited correctly (again be a use of parent elements out of my control). Compared to something like Qt/QML’s anchors and layouts, flexbox still feels like a crude hack, to me.
- dkersten 4y agoToo late to edit: “because it was nested strangely”
- satvikpendem 4y agoplace-self: center;
- rpastuszak 4y agoThis was (sort of) funny 5-7 years ago. Meta: Stuff like this doesn’t really fit in HN imho. Besides being low effort it just feels weird to read things like this on a site literally called hacker news. I feel like someone misspelled “tired techies complaining about the same thing over and over again”. Is it that much harder to come up with a genuinely funny or constructive answer or, you know, go outside, and touch some grass instead of posting?
- TylerE 4y agoDoes that really hold water when some days half the front page is reposts from years ago? Hardly "news" either
- rpastuszak 4y agoI struggled to find a better way to express what I meant tbf. I want to avoid making general statements re the discourse here, so I try to respond with a specific comment in mind (e.g. the joke above). Otherwise it's just more of the same (depressing) noise. I'm looking for alternatives, but the best I have at the moment is chatting with random people via my Calendly.
- ofcourseyoudo 4y agoProbably about as hard as it is to find a more original phrase than "touch some grass"? Or are you fighting low effort with low effort?
- TylerE 4y agoThere are still days when I wish for a time machine to 20 years ago and table-based layout. Yes, it was semantically ugly but it %(#% worked every #%#% time.