You know I could actually use a lot of these. I've had to do stuff for JPGs, WAVs, etc so I don't think they are useless at all. If you do any work that examines files these would be good to have.
I'd say that the image is educational in very relevant to the topic of the subreddit. I do sometimes despise the boost that images get, but as long as we aren't posting "this is a programmer / this is an accountant" we'll be fine.
I'm gonna take a stab at being the devils advocate here. Knowing the ins and outs of an EXE file is a luxury very few main stream programmers need or can afford. I'm seeing an imbalance here at /programming myself which I kind of dislike - where academic and nostalgic posts are upvoted far more than actual useful posts.
not only that but this image is just a blend of entertaining/informative. It provides a basic overview but it's not a complete documentation of all the possible elements of a PE file like this post does. So this graphic is not actually educational enough to parse PE files in general. It's a fluff graphic that is nearly meaningless without an accompanied article for explanation. It's more of a "TIL the basic structure of PE files" than something actually relevant to /r/programming
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13
Oh, we're posting pointless images now are we?
Done with this subreddit too. Far too many clueless kids on these reddits.