Hi all, yeah my boss (let's call him Jim) (His name is Jim) has got a fancy monitor which is ridiculously detailed to the max. 4K on his primary screen.
I, however, am a lowly serf thumping away on the keyboard of a late-last-year laptop, running the shiny new super-cool community version of vs2015.
Now, I'm not saying I have to chop up wood to fire up the boiler so my steam-driven dual-core acer can crank up visual studio, but there's a mighty difference between this thing and the 8+ core with who knows how much ram he could stuff into his beastie.
I'm not jealous. Much. Putting it another way, my pathetic SQL-wrangling takes about 12 seconds on old faithful (laptop), but on his, the code has already finished doing the network thing and has retrieved the data, swept the floors, made the bed and prepared breakfast all before your finger has lifted off the mouse.
His complaint? (sorry for waffling) The code that runs perfectly well on all our customers machines just doesn't scale well on a 4K monitor. I'm not kidding when I say that a standard 1366x768 laptop screen looks like a postage stamp on his box.
Does anyone know of a scaling library or something which could help? I'm guessing this is going to be a common problem as these monitors become more prevalent.
Apologies for the letter-style of writing. I really don't get out much.
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