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I was wondering if someone could create a monocrome eink screen for a workstation, it would make for a great workstation for enhanced productivity. colour is a
by jlebrech 10y ago
I was wondering if someone could create a monocrome eink screen for a workstation, it would make for a great workstation for enhanced productivity. colour is a distraction unless you need to create something that's color (a programmer mostly doesn't)
- romaniv 10y agoI'd buy one in a flash. Color is overrated, while the ability to work in sunlight and display an image when computer is turned off / sleeping would enable me to do things completely impossible before. Also, it would be cool if such monitor also worked as a standalone tablet/reader with long battery life. I'd be more willing to spend $700+ if it was dual-purpose.
- robotresearcher 10y agoI'll keep my color syntax highlighting. I like it.
- azeirah 10y agoYou can achieve really nice looking syntax highlighting using only bold, _italic_ and several different scales of gray.
- Larrikin 10y agoDifferentiating between various grays seems like a waste of time when you could just use color
- pasquinelli 10y agoyou could also say using color seems like a waste of time when you could just vary letterforms. e-ink is nicer for your eyes but expensive if you want color. how one goes about highlighting their code depends on a number of constraints; if you want a display that's easier on the eyes you might use methods other than color to highlight your code. it's not easier or harder or any more or less natural or anything. me personally, i've always used color vary sparingly, if at all, because a bunch of highly contrasting colors ends up looking, to my eye, like vomit soup without really clarifying anything.
- janneklouman 10y agoColor might be a distraction to you, but for me syntax highlighting speeds up my work significantly.
- laurent123456 10y agoI don't think there's that many programmers who never, ever deal with colours. An icon, a font change, and you need colour. Not to mention the fact that colours provide useful cues in general and improve productivity (syntax highlighting, coloured terminals, etc.).
- sqeaky 10y agoI am systems developer working mostly in C++. I often make things with no user visible GUI, like libraries and algorithms. They wouldn't be able to pry my colored syntax highlighting from my cold dead hands.
- scottlocklin 10y agoemacs on my NeXT cube (which was B&W) used font highlighting. It worked pretty well.
- jlebrech 10y agoI want someone to take the whole left by company like NeXT or Sun. the workstation but not PC space.
- csours 10y agoI don't agree with you about color, but I would love to have an e-ink monitor for documentation and PDFs to augment my other other monitors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203
- jlebrech 10y agoI yearn for the old workstation of old that were just for work and couldn't be used for entertainment.
- moftz 10y agoHuh? That is as simple as not installing any games on your computer, using GPUs like Quadros if you do CAD, and using quality components that don't have 1000 RGB LEDS all over them. This is not impossible to do.
- pkamb 10y agohe says on Hacker News
- jlebrech 10y agoso you don't get distracted by video or pretty articles. and it's an exclusive coding machine.
- moftz 10y agoOk so don't install a browser if you really can't control yourself from being distracted by the internet. Install a block list of all news sites, social media, and whatever sites you waste time on if you need to go online.
- vivekd 10y agoThere's an eink typewriter for that purpose - although I can't say that I've tried it - getfreewrite.com
- ramy_d 10y agohttp://www.dasung.com/english/ http://www.dasung.com/english/