I just re-watched the beginning of this documentary to see a bit of how these people worked and I noticed Tommy has an interesting setup: you can tell that one of his Dell monitors is turned 90 degrees to be vertical in order to fit more code on the screen. I thought this was hilarious and a cool idea. How do you do that? Also, what programming language is each developer using? They all seem a little different.
shareYou just turn your monitor 90 degrees and set your resolution appropriately. A lot of developers use this since it allows you to see more of your code.
I think most developers were using either C++ or C# (they are widely used for making games - especially for the Xbox)
I had a second monitor set up like this for a couple years. It is extremely useful for a number of different applications. Hell, look at most websites (including this one), they have blank areas running down either side for the dinosaurs still running 4:3 aspect ratio, turning a 16:9 sideways eliminates that and shows you a whole hell of a lot more information without scrolling.
The monitor I had was a Samsung, and the rotation was a feature built into the stand. Rotating the image itself was as simple as changing the display setting.
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not a coder here, but as i type this, one of my monitors is at 90 degrees.... But lets not kid our self... what you gain vertically, you are sacrificing, horizontally... so there is a trade off. You won't have to scroll down as often, but you'll have to scroll to the side.
Maybe in C#, you can use word wrap, and its less an issue. i honestly don't know.
I never put anything over there that would require scrolling side to side. If I ever decide to set up an office at home again, I'll set one up sideways again.
You can use wordwrap in pretty much any IDE I've tried. Most definitely in VS which would cover c/c++ as well.
shareIt's a pretty common thing. I don't think it's all that useful. But then again my monitors probably have more vertical resolution than his monitor has horizontal resolution, so I don't need it.
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