Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 00:32:11 EST 2018


On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 8:37:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano 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:

Have you heard of the “Dutch Reach¨?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/the-dutch-reach-how-opening-car-door-like-the-dutch-could-save-lives-cycling/

Presumably it goes beyond the 'inconvenience' of images-instead-of-text to the
saving-of-lives…



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