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Impressive refresh rate! I'd love to try using an IDE such as Eclipse on such a screen. I suppose IDEs can have an e-ink mode where instead of colors, they use

by vijucat 12y ago

Impressive refresh rate! I'd love to try using an IDE such as Eclipse on such a screen. I suppose IDEs can have an e-ink mode where instead of colors, they use multiple fonts, italics, bold fonts, and other decorators to highlight syntax.

ekianjo 12y ago
> Impressive refresh rate! Yeah, and apparently no need to go to the black state required on current e-ink screens?
- JamesMcMinn 12y ago
  That's mostly to prevent image retention ("burn in"), which the display does unfortunately seems to have.
- wlesieutre 12y ago
  JamesMcMinn, your posts are being marked as dead. Not clear why, try getting in touch with the mods if you read this.
  - throwaway_f 12y ago
    HN hell banning real name accounts now? Unbelievable. This site forces people to communicate like they're being watched by their professor, and it still passive aggressively bans people who merely dissent once and a while. Just wait until an alternative site emerges. One that doesn't have a concept of crimethink for the sake of "preserving the community".
- pvidler 12y ago
  Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column while scrolling makes it look dirty compared to the rest of the screen as well.
rasz_pl 12y ago
> Impressive refresh rate! YES, but sadly you can see afterimages, or image burn on the screen, I hope they have some self erase/calibration procedure buildin.
SixSigma 12y ago
Use Emacs, Acme, vi All great monochrome editors. Plenty of exceptional programmers use mono. One wonders if it is a cause or an effect.
- SEMW 12y ago
  Huh? There's nothing inherently monochrome about emacs or vi/vim. Both support colour syntax highlighting, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of programmers using those editors weren't using it. Certainly everyone in my workplace who uses vim (including me) does. (Don't know about Acme).
  - jalanb 12y ago
    > There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"
Cthulhu_ 12y ago
E-ink theme would do, most IDE's give you extensive code formatting / theming options; replace the standard colours with bolds and underlines and such and you're good to go.
spain 12y ago
They do have colored e-ink displays on the horizon too, but yeah that would be nice until those become mainstream.

by vijucat 12y ago

ekianjo 12y ago

> Impressive refresh rate! Yeah, and apparently no need to go to the black state required on current e-ink screens?

JamesMcMinn 12y ago
That's mostly to prevent image retention ("burn in"), which the display does unfortunately seems to have.
wlesieutre 12y ago
JamesMcMinn, your posts are being marked as dead. Not clear why, try getting in touch with the mods if you read this.
- throwaway_f 12y ago
  HN hell banning real name accounts now? Unbelievable. This site forces people to communicate like they're being watched by their professor, and it still passive aggressively bans people who merely dissent once and a while. Just wait until an alternative site emerges. One that doesn't have a concept of crimethink for the sake of "preserving the community".
pvidler 12y ago
Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column while scrolling makes it look dirty compared to the rest of the screen as well.

rasz_pl 12y ago

> Impressive refresh rate! YES, but sadly you can see afterimages, or image burn on the screen, I hope they have some self erase/calibration procedure buildin.

SixSigma 12y ago

Use Emacs, Acme, vi All great monochrome editors. Plenty of exceptional programmers use mono. One wonders if it is a cause or an effect.

SEMW 12y ago
Huh? There's nothing inherently monochrome about emacs or vi/vim. Both support colour syntax highlighting, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of programmers using those editors weren't using it. Certainly everyone in my workplace who uses vim (including me) does. (Don't know about Acme).
- jalanb 12y ago
  > There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"

Cthulhu_ 12y ago

E-ink theme would do, most IDE's give you extensive code formatting / theming options; replace the standard colours with bolds and underlines and such and you're good to go.

spain 12y ago

They do have colored e-ink displays on the horizon too, but yeah that would be nice until those become mainstream.