the more monitors you have the less you will understand, as you wont be caching it in your brain but instead relying on the monitor. Frankly, you shouldnt even need a monitor.
Nah he's making a joke here. That's something he would say unironically. (It would probably be more generic like "explore your editor" or "learn your tools" but same idea)
Problem is, I've prestiged and now I'm on two big ones plus two little ones beneath them, and I'm just dying to drunk-checkout someday on a couple of mini Waveshare LCDs for absolutely no reason.
@GregFirehawk I am not. with low resolutions your eyes are working overtime to fill in the blanks of missing pixels. With 4k, text is silky smooth. I use a single 4k 32inch monitor.
One monitor for music playlist and visualizer, one monitor for stack overflow/documentation, one monitor for code/debugger, one monitor for application. I've been doing it this way for years, and I can confirm I am the best coder of all time.
I used to have one plastic chair and only my laptop but managed to work up to 12 hours a day despite the back pain, then I bought a gaming chair and an awesome 165hz monitor and I've never reached my previous level of productivity again. 😢
Ever since i got a mechanical keyboard i have improved. Coz i can hear the key press and it goes thock thock thockity thock. Its all about sensory enhancement guys
Best productivity of my lifetime was on a 14" laptop with Windows 7 ;D No separate keyboard, no external monitor. Only extra was a cheap mouse because touchpads suck hard.
No no, you need an odd number. The center of your workspace can't be a seam between displays. That's why one is 1337, two is ameture, three is pro, four is pretending, and five is god tier.
Its true! I use 7 monitors and I'm about 6.481534x more productive than the average programmer. It's estimated that once I upgrade my desk, chair, monitor stands and add 2 monitors I'll achieve the elusive 10x productivity milestone.
It might be a joke, but I am gonna throw my 2 cents in there. I do develop games, and let me tell you, having 2 or even 3 monitors is so convenient. You can have one with game engine, 1 for coding and one for looking stuff up, for example. If I could, I would try to fit a couple more, one for music and one for to-do list, but yeah, these you don't look at all the time, can be alt-tabbed.
Vertical monitor is for engineers trying to code. A true dev splits their editor into 4+ columns on a wide screen, and a senior dev has 6-8 columns on a ultra wide.
I used to use 3 monitors, including a widescreen. I stopped using all of them and just use the monitor on the Mac instead. Ironically, I've never been able to multitask as well before, and I'm also much more productive.
I just got a used steelcase Amia for $275 and it's amazing compared to the shit racecar gamer chair thing I had before. In case you were seriously considering a new chair.
