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I believe that girl never wrote a line of code. Why would you use a vertical monitor to write code???

bradlys 7y ago
More lines viewable at a time. Most places have line length limits and they're well below full screen width. There are people I've worked with who enjoy reading and writing code on a vertical orientation.
- thefounder 7y ago
  That's something new to me. I though people want more horizontal tabs/columns. Scanning a very "tall" display(like this 32" one) doesn't seem very comfortable to me.
  - lloeki 7y ago
    I loved my single 21:9 LG display. I hated that it was not HiDPI by a long shot.
  - atq2119 7y ago
    The ability to understand code at a macro level improves the more code you are able to see at once, because scanning with your eyes is more efficient than scrolling can ever be. So using a portrait orientation for your monitor does make sense.
  - Simon_says 7y ago
    Maybe you're just not used to it?
steve_adams_86 7y ago
I love stacking terminals in a vertical monitor. I usually keep some code in tall columns as well if the project has longer files. It's great when it suits what you're doing, but I had my doubts like you as well.
V99 7y ago
There's at least 4 out of ~15 people in our office with one or more vertical monitors. I wouldn't buy a $6,000 monitor for it, but your standard few hundred dollar Dell office monitor pivots for a reason.
Rebelgecko 7y ago
my code is almost always taller than it is wide, so a vertical monitor lets me see more at once. I try to avoid having a dozen levels of indentation because IMO it hurts legibility regardless of monitor orientation. Also handy for terminal output and documentation.
arthurcolle 7y ago
It is actually really common to have several monitors, at least one of which is vertical in order to have one dedicated "code-reading" screen. When I worked at a large investment bank, most technology people had this set-up, at least in my own experience/recollection. When the monitor is vertical, and you have one file of code that has a few thousand lines, it becomes much more practical to have 1/10th of the code in your view immediately, as opposed to 1/25th and needing to reconstruct the hierarchy of the application's codebase in your immediate mental memory
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coldtea 7y ago
Many programmers do it, including several famous ones (you can find photos online). You view more context (lines of code) at the same time. https://www.google.com/search?q=vertical+monitor+programming&source=lnms&tbm=isch& https://www.google.com/search?q=vertical+monitor+programming...
toyg 7y ago
The shape of screens has been traditionally determined by 1) video applications (as video pros were willing to pay premiums, hence setting standards for the market to follow) and 2) the form of keyboards (laptops must be wider than taller). Developers have had to fight this trend by figuring out screen-splitting hacks, whjen their natural workflow is inevitably shaped by Western text, so fundamentally vertical at scale. If you step back, you'll see that vertical layout makes more sense than the horizontal one. (And please don't call grown-up professional women "girls". It makes you look bad.)

More lines viewable at a time. Most places have line length limits and they're well below full screen width. There are people I've worked with who enjoy reading and writing code on a vertical orientation.

thefounder 7y ago
That's something new to me. I though people want more horizontal tabs/columns. Scanning a very "tall" display(like this 32" one) doesn't seem very comfortable to me.
- lloeki 7y ago
  I loved my single 21:9 LG display. I hated that it was not HiDPI by a long shot.
- atq2119 7y ago
  The ability to understand code at a macro level improves the more code you are able to see at once, because scanning with your eyes is more efficient than scrolling can ever be. So using a portrait orientation for your monitor does make sense.
- Simon_says 7y ago
  Maybe you're just not used to it?

steve_adams_86 7y ago

I love stacking terminals in a vertical monitor. I usually keep some code in tall columns as well if the project has longer files. It's great when it suits what you're doing, but I had my doubts like you as well.

V99 7y ago

There's at least 4 out of ~15 people in our office with one or more vertical monitors. I wouldn't buy a $6,000 monitor for it, but your standard few hundred dollar Dell office monitor pivots for a reason.

Rebelgecko 7y ago

my code is almost always taller than it is wide, so a vertical monitor lets me see more at once. I try to avoid having a dozen levels of indentation because IMO it hurts legibility regardless of monitor orientation. Also handy for terminal output and documentation.

arthurcolle 7y ago

It is actually really common to have several monitors, at least one of which is vertical in order to have one dedicated "code-reading" screen. When I worked at a large investment bank, most technology people had this set-up, at least in my own experience/recollection. When the monitor is vertical, and you have one file of code that has a few thousand lines, it becomes much more practical to have 1/10th of the code in your view immediately, as opposed to 1/25th and needing to reconstruct the hierarchy of the application's codebase in your immediate mental memory

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coldtea 7y ago

Many programmers do it, including several famous ones (you can find photos online). You view more context (lines of code) at the same time. https://www.google.com/search?q=vertical+monitor+programming&source=lnms&tbm=isch& https://www.google.com/search?q=vertical+monitor+programming...

toyg 7y ago

The shape of screens has been traditionally determined by 1) video applications (as video pros were willing to pay premiums, hence setting standards for the market to follow) and 2) the form of keyboards (laptops must be wider than taller). Developers have had to fight this trend by figuring out screen-splitting hacks, whjen their natural workflow is inevitably shaped by Western text, so fundamentally vertical at scale. If you step back, you'll see that vertical layout makes more sense than the horizontal one. (And please don't call grown-up professional women "girls". It makes you look bad.)