4K Is For Programmers 520
An anonymous reader writes "The 4K television revolution is upon us, and nobody is impressed. Most users seem content to wait until there's actually something to watch on these ultra-high-res displays, and also for the price to come down. However, Brian Hauer has written an article promoting a non-standard use for these displays. His office just got a 39", 3840x2160 display for each of their programmers' workstations. He now confidently declares, 'For the time being, there is no single higher-productivity display for a programmer.' Hauer explains: 'Four editors side-by-side each with over a hundred lines of code, and enough room to spare for a project navigator, console, and debugger. Enough room to visualize the back-end service code, the HTML template, the style-sheet, the client-side script, and the finished result in a web browser — all at once without one press of Alt-tab.'"
where do I sign? (Score:5, Funny)
Must... reopen... Dell financing account.
Been using 2K for a few months (Score:3, Funny)
And it is really awesome for coding. I'm sure 4K is even better.
Philip J. Fry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not just multiple monitors. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Biometrics security will be obsolete (Score:5, Funny)
But 40" won't be enough to view her ass.
Re:39" display for workstations? (Score:5, Funny)
My "workstation" is a seven year old laptop that I can buy on eBay for $50. I make more than that per hour. I've offered to bring in my own hardware, but - no unapproved hardware on the network. And no admin rights, because, you know, I might break my $50 PC, so if I need to change an environment variable it's a week wait for a helpdesk maggot to show up.
It's just a side effect of senior management not having a clue as to what we do and seeing developers as nothing more than a cost.
Re:39" display for workstations? (Score:3, Funny)
Worth it? (Score:2, Funny)
I went to the Amazon page. The image on the 4K monitor on their website doesn't look any nicer than any of the other images on my monitor.