Do as Paint Can

    Hello harazhiteli!

    Yesterday one story happened to me, it would seem ordinary, but it touched me greatly.
    It was already after midnight (hours 3 or 4 in the morning), I received a reminder letter that I received a new drug on the freelance website. Well, of course, it didn’t interest me much, because I’ve been in freelance for a year now. But still he poked, got to one famous freelance site ...



    In fact, I didn’t even read the drugs. And he decided to briefly go over the reservations, to recall the past. Hoping that I will find some order for an hour and with a calm soul I will go to bed :) I see:

    simple script with adding weight to the picture



    you need to write a simple image output script with adding weight to it, say 3kb each time

    I don’t make an advance payment to the script , the budget remains open, write your own prices, the project will be received by the one who takes less time and price.


    Well, I thought it was a chance, and I knock on ICQ:
    - Alyo
    - Alyo
    - Pirvet
    - Hello
    - Ready to go ...
    - Go ahead, get started

    How so? Without any details. Well, I decided to make sure:
    - How can I change the image?
    - Anyone!
    - Even change the size?
    - Yes, the main thing is to increase to 1 GB.
    - Let's say a white area from the bottom will be attached, will it suit you?
    - Yes.

    Well, in an hour everything was ready. I show. To which the answer is: “No, it's not that. I need the picture to remain visually unchanged. " I am indignant: "But you yourself said that you can resize and draw from the bottom ..." Answer: "I meant the weight of the picture can be changed." Oh god, I thought. “But it’s unrealistic to increase the weight of an image of 17 kb to 1 gb without adding anything to it” (pictures could be of any format)
    Then his answer killed me:
    - “And if you put dots in the picture?”
    - “There are a lot of pixels from changing colors you won’t increase the size ... ”
    And here his fateful answer comes:
    “And in Paint it is possible!”

    Having understood what the customer is, I dumped.

    Bottom line: everything in life happens :)

    my first topic is here. on a habr ...

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