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This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic. But I too prefer to work on a smaller screen (and I have tried much

by aidos 9y ago

This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic. But I too prefer to work on a smaller screen (and I have tried much larger monitors). I switch context and then just work in that context. I don't feel the need to be able to see a load of different things at the same time. Really though, it's subjective and everyone should just do what works best for them. It's the same discussion that comes up with some people having 200 tabs open in their browser whereas others of us keep it really minimal. I'm over a decade into working pretty much on a 13" macbook full time and that's my happy place.

coldtea 9y ago
>This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic Not exactly antagonistic -- meant to give some historical context to answer the parent's question which made it seem like big monitors are some physical necessity that people just can't do without. It's not like big monitors where any kind of norm before at least 2000. I know tons of people happily coding away on a laptop with no external monitors attached.
- aidos 9y ago
  Well, the only part of your comment I was referring to was the "having 10 BS windows asking for our attention", because really I agree with you (and I upvoted you to try to help normalise the discussion). It's a very strange thread to read. Judging by the downvotes, it seems as though there's a really negative reaction to people who code on small screens. Whatever people want to do is fine, but it's pretty weird to almost shout down anyone who does it a different way.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    >Well, the only part of your comment I was referring to was the "having 10 BS windows asking for our attention" A, yes, thanks. I think where big/dual monitors make more sense are for admin style work -- when you need to, non pun intended, monitor, several things at once.
kelnos 9y ago
> This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic. A fine example of how it's really difficult to express tone via text (I read it as pretty breezy, not antagonistic), and why we should all attempt to apply the principle of charity to everything we read before assuming someone's being a dick.
- aidos 9y ago
  I'm going to be totally honest—I personally thought the tone was ok but felt like I should err on the side of caution, lest I too suffered the wrath of the large-multimonitor crowd :-)

by aidos 9y ago

coldtea 9y ago

>This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic Not exactly antagonistic -- meant to give some historical context to answer the parent's question which made it seem like big monitors are some physical necessity that people just can't do without. It's not like big monitors where any kind of norm before at least 2000. I know tons of people happily coding away on a laptop with no external monitors attached.

aidos 9y ago
Well, the only part of your comment I was referring to was the "having 10 BS windows asking for our attention", because really I agree with you (and I upvoted you to try to help normalise the discussion). It's a very strange thread to read. Judging by the downvotes, it seems as though there's a really negative reaction to people who code on small screens. Whatever people want to do is fine, but it's pretty weird to almost shout down anyone who does it a different way.
- coldtea 9y ago
  >Well, the only part of your comment I was referring to was the "having 10 BS windows asking for our attention" A, yes, thanks. I think where big/dual monitors make more sense are for admin style work -- when you need to, non pun intended, monitor, several things at once.

kelnos 9y ago

> This seems to have attracted a lot of downvotes, I guess because it's overtly antagonistic. A fine example of how it's really difficult to express tone via text (I read it as pretty breezy, not antagonistic), and why we should all attempt to apply the principle of charity to everything we read before assuming someone's being a dick.

aidos 9y ago
I'm going to be totally honest—I personally thought the tone was ok but felt like I should err on the side of caution, lest I too suffered the wrath of the large-multimonitor crowd :-)