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Not huge. Maybe 30"
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I work 100% from home, and for the past few years have used a single laptop as my dev environment (and everything else). When working regularly I had a 17" monitor as well as the laptop. I work less these days and find that using just the laptop screen is perfectly adequate. As per the conversation above, I can only look at one monitor at once, and switching windows is just alt-tab, and my hands are always on the keyboard. It's quicker for me to do that key combo than move my eyes/head and refocus on another screen.
As for big screens, I really don't like them that much. You can either blow everything up, run things full-screen and have to move your head reading every line of text; or have things windowed and as above move head/eyes/focus when switching attention from one window to another.
Plus I'm saving power! 
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I would have walked out of the interview at about that point.
Same idiotic reasoning could be used about the size of the monitors as well.
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I agree.
At work I have twin 22" plus a 17" laptop screen and feel cramped.
At home on my gaming machine I have a single 27" monitor, landscape (1920x1080) and a fast GPU card.
At home on my primary dev machine I have a 24" landscape (1920x1080) plus three 22" portrait (1600x1200) monitors.
At home on my secondary dev machine I have the same as the main one.
I use my home laptop 17" (1920x1080) for email.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I use a laptop connected to a +-24" monitor, but I hardly use the laptop's screen.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... who uses one monitor these days?
I have to...
Thanks to management who decided hot-desking was the way to go... And never mind my sweet twin 24" setup... Single 27" monitor now...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I'd probably have started looking for a new job when they introduced hot desking - one of the most morale sapping changes management can make, I've yet to meet anyone who really enjoys it.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've maximised working from home instead - much better than going into the office...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Yeah, I was too lazy to look it up, so I just held my hands out to the corners then re-oriented them to horizontal and guestimated the distance.
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