Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-02-08, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 08/02/2025 07:36, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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IMHO, a lot of this is just "busy work" from
   people looking for something to do. Their
   idea of "better" means "better for ME - and
   screw YOU". It's not better for the average,
   or even professional, user.

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I always loved that description of a piece of software:
"It's a great improvement on its successors."
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I am fascinated by the fact that when it comes to programming, there can
be an enormous disconnect between academic programmers, and a guy in his
room who just pounded out the code and got the work done.
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I'm not saying he did it in the most "elegant" way or the best documented
way, but I do claim that in many instances, the guy without the official
training is able to do it.

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And, in the end, his solution might be the more elegant one,
in that it takes all sorts of real-world factors into account.
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Reminds me of when I went to university. I often had to help the A
students with their practical assignments, and I got it done. On the
theory part however, they were always the A students.

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My university computer science courses left me quite disillusioned.
Between my second and third years I managed to land a summer job
programming in a small shop in the real world.  For my third year
I arranged my schedule so that I had Thursdays off, and continued
to work at my part-time programming job.  There was no fourth year -
I dropped out and went full-time, and have been programming ever since.

Were you successful? Did you become a powerful technologist with wealth and many women?