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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by wanderer2323 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:43PM (#25627741)
The 'first comment' was in the context of the reddit!OP's reddit post that started as:

> I am currently working on a standard Windows desktop application <...>

> and have decided to write a GUI framework on my own

If you want to write an application, rolling your own GUI framework is obviously a horrible idea.

In this particular case the reddit!OP converted their GUI framework experiment into a master thesis, but that does not make the advice in the 'first comment' less valid. Did they write that application they wanted?

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by pulp_user on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:51PM (#25638712)
(OP here) I did! And it was enjoyable and didn't take that long (about 2 or 3 weeks initially). I think in the end It actually was still faster to just write the GUI by myself than to use Qt, simply because I would have to get used to Qt and put up with all its bull. But even if it wasn't, I'd still prefer 3 weeks of challange over 1 week of misery.
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by wanderer2323 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:45PM (#25770725)
Congratulations! I wish you long to remain in the life situation where you can freely trade time for challenge ;)

Also I wouldn’t call QT ‘misery’. Drudgery maybe?

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by nickkell on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:58AM (#25629763)
It's a question and answer site, not a question and unasked-for advice site. If someone's taken the time to write a thought-out question, then people should assume they've put research into it!
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by krageon on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:36AM (#25630045)
> not a question and unasked-for advice site

In practice, I think this is not correct. You will almost always be told that your question is a bad idea and you need something different (even if you already know it is a bad fit and you've said so...). I've had to make peace with the fact that it's probably a cultural thing to feel like the questioner is in fact mentally handicapped in some profound way.

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