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I've heard some people say that only being able to see a small amount of code at a time forces good programming practices, compared to what you'd be able to do
by cytzol 16y ago
I've heard some people say that only being able to see a small amount of code at a time forces good programming practices, compared to what you'd be able to do with a large monitor. Do you think that having such a small screen helps in this way?
- patrickk 16y agoI would say that's bullshit. Tried using a netbook to do some web development, and the small screen, keyboard and lethargic hardware made it very frustrating. Horrible compared to using a big monitor and powerful desktop.
- billswift 16y agoI bought an Asus Eee several years ago for writing away from home, but discovered too late that the keyboard is much too small for me to type comfortably.
- dmm 16y agoWas it the 10" model? I found the keyboard on the 7" to be too small to touch type but the 10" is just large enough after some adjustment.
- patrickk 16y agoI got a Dell Mini 10v and turned it into a hackintosh for Rails development...unfortunately it's useless apart from browsing the web and reading PDFs. The small keyboard can be worked around by plugging in a proper Apple keyboard....but that's not very portable :-(
- dmm 16y agoWell it certainly doesn't force anything. I could probably adopt some bad practices if I really tried. The screen really isn't that small. I disable scroll-bars, tool bars and menu bars in emacs. Using 11pt profont I get two vertical buffers of 81 cols by 102 rows. That's quadruple the size of a vt100 terminal. How much more could you need? haha If I had to use gnome this display size would be unusable but stumpwm makes it very usable.