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Tiny screens, especially high res ones, are fine for coding. But working on laptops all day isn't great. If you code all day, you will probably develop back pr
by shubb 13y ago
Tiny screens, especially high res ones, are fine for coding. But working on laptops all day isn't great.
If you code all day, you will probably develop back problems if you don't sit with good posture.
You need to sit straight in a good chair, and look at a monitor at eye level about 2 arms lengths away. You need to type on a keyboard with good typing posture.
If you don't, then you will be okay for a few years, and then you won't.
I've seen RSI write off good programmers. It's pretty horrible - they build their lives and self esteem around a job, and then they can't do it. Bad RSI means that you can't touch a keyboard.
- dreamdu5t 13y agoI've never seen any solid research linking slouching to back problems later in life. There's plenty of studies that correlate "bad" posture with discomfort, but none that I'm aware that correlate slouching with future back problems controlled by a group that does not slouch. I'd love to be corrected though.
- shubb 13y agoYou are right - I am basing this on my subjective experience. Also, I suspect that this is a problem if 80% of your time you are at a desk typing, but if you move around a lot, it's not going to be such a problem. That said, if you are coding at a desk all the time, a quick google finds research that backs up the posture -> injury thing.