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This guy[^]. He had some unpleasant character traits in QA.
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Something about that name man... I'm sure you remember he who must not be named. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I'm sure you remember he who must not be named
Was beginning to think that I was the only one that remembered. I think he and SA are related though.
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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We remember, but I think we're just trying to forget... 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I think we're just trying hoping to forget
Fixed that for you.
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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Shhhh. Say his name three times and he pops up. And so do many of his shill accounts.
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Good point, good point.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The question I have to ask though, what happened to SAK?
Unlike many who decide to leave (and later return) he seems done have done it without a rant.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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No idea who SAK is so it must have been before my time but I enjoy teaching others and always have. This is why I try to not only give answers but also explain why their idea didn't do what they expected. Teach your fellow man for one day that knowledge may be returned ten-fold when you need it the most  Progress is a group effort.
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... (shoot!)
If POH doesn't know, who could possibly know?
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The Lounge[^]
I found today's CommitStrip rather appropriate! 
All the same[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just the perfect !!!
___@sHubHa
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I've just shared that with the rest of the team
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Fantastic! and well timed!
Thanks for posting
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So Dell's just announced an 8K monitor - but it's only 32".
I currently use a 40" 4K TV on my desk as my primary monitor, and the individual pixels are smaller than the 1920x1200 24" monitor sitting next to it. At 40", I don't quite have to resize anything, but if they were any smaller, I'd probably have no choice but to resize everything (and I have better than 20/20 vision). I'm of the belief that resizing everything to 125% or 150% is a waste of pixels, since you're then allocating more of them to show the same content.
Everything being equal, I'd have to think if I didn't want to resize everything to 200% (or more), then an 8K display would need to be spread out on an 80" surface or so. This 32" Dell monitor seems like a complete waste to me.
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I've wondered this every time I see a laptop with a high resolution and the screen's 14 or 15". I can never see anything. And I have 20/20.
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Nish Nishant wrote: And I have 20/20.
Well that's your problem, you'll need 4k/4k vision to see it.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'd like to see a picture of your setup. And do you put sunscreen on when you start work? 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Unlike most people, for years, I've been dropping the brightness on all my monitors all the way down to 0, and increasing the contrast to compensate.
This always horrifies the artsy-fartsy types as now my "color accuracy is completely shot" and "all the details are lost" and some-such BS. But I'm writing code on this thing, rendered in black, on a light-grey background (pure white for window backgrounds is evil). I'm not watching HD videos or editing high-color images that need to be printed.
I keep hearing from people with eyestrain and headaches and can't sit in front of a display more than a few hours each day. Usually it turns out they have their brightness cranked all the way to 100%. No wonder they feel like they've been staring at the sun. I can sit in front of my monitors for 8, 12, 16 hours a day with no eyestrain whatsoever.
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well just damn, I'm going to be coding all weekend, so I'm going to try this. What sort of ambient or office lighting do you have?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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During the day, I close the blinds--the window is off to the side, so I get no reflection.
During the evening, if I turn on any light at all, it's just a very small LED desk lamp to illuminate the keyboard. Avoid bright lights. And, again, reflections on the screen.
It might take some getting used to--I don't know, I've been working like this for so long I don't remember much about the transition period.
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Think of it like this, as more and more devices support more and more higher res monitors, you won't always have one unit or point equal one pixel for instance, like back in the day. I haven't done any hardcore GDI work in a looooooooong time, but I'd wager if you have a high resolution because of the 8k display then these days Windows should in-fact scale it to use a higher ppi and thus not have everything so tiny since most apps don't attempt to circumvent the GDI API. The result will be a much, much clear image... much like a Retina display on a Mac.
If it's not automatic due to lack of monitor drivers, etc. then perhaps there's a way to set it manually (not sure yet).
It's a lot like printing at 300dpi when you have a 72ppi monitor, it looks smaller on print. If we had the monitor at 300ppi and the printer at 300dpi, they'd be the same size. So, same concept, just in reverse.
For those that haven't, 'tis yet another reason to upgrade from Windows XP.
Jeremy Falcon
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The higher res really does make reading easier and images crisper.
...as long as developers support high DPI.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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