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Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!

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  1. ebonGavia
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    A kindred spirit...

    The funniest thing to me about all of this is that I do not like having any icons on my desktop.

    A kindred spirit...

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  2. payitforward
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    That was insightful. To the oblivious user desktop icons are something plain that should just work. But there's always so much hidden complexity behind all things computing. I'm only a novice and...

    That was insightful. To the oblivious user desktop icons are something plain that should just work. But there's always so much hidden complexity behind all things computing.

    I'm only a novice and occasional coder but this absolves me of some contrition:

    Reading code is the hardest part

    When going through old code, especially some that has barely any comments, it can take a very long time to understand what is actually going on

    Writing code seems so much easier than reading it. I can't be the only one spenden copious time on thinking how minor variables should be named. I do this because I might to readjust a script I wrote months or years later. And at that point I want it to read as autological as possible.

    Ironically I like to keep my desktop clean. Just like a physical desktop. If I place something on the desktop it's because it needs attention, but I can only resolve it at a later time.

    3 votes