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A black background has helped to keep my eyes sharp during my 30 years of coding. Staring at a bright white light for 8+ hours a day is just asking for trouble.
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For me after 1 week trying a dark background light text my eyes were painful and my vision blurred even when not looking at a screen. Since reverting to white background and black text my eyes are back to 20/20 and no pain. (I have been staring at a monitor for over 10 years with this and my eyesight is perfect). So I seriously think light text on dark background is harmful.. I wonder do you wair glasses already? (all the people who seem to prefer light on dark seem to)
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My eyes are pretty close to perfect so far. No glasses yet.
My black background preference might have to do with the good old DOS prompt. Back when I really fell in love with computers, 1980, Windows wasn't born yet.
Black background, fixed width raster fonts, and I'm a happy coder 
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...just make sure I can change it.
Marc
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+5 
/ravi
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Of course you can change it, but I've set the color selection panel to "black and white". Because.
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When I code, I use the force.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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I use the same schema.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Like This?????
May the mass * acceleration be with you!
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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and with you as well, master Greve. 
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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Most important of all
is that we have
a mono-spaced font.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You should be proud and ashamed of yourself.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ack! 
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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...I'm colorblind.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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So what you see is all shades of gray, that is... if you know what color gray is? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: if you know what color gray is?
Sure I do. It's the color of my matter.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Such a nice classic look.
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Recently the project I’m working on has had me working under four different programming environments simultaneously. Xcode for iOS, VS2010, VB.6 (I know, don’t need to hear about it…) and some proprietary combination of xml, a custom scripting scheme using odd kind of basic in Notepad++ for 8051 microprocessor based hardware.
Too much of a headache already switching programming modes in my head, then to add trying to get them all to appear useful or to look “cool”.
I just leave it at the default.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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With Black background i feel less stress on eyes.
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I couldn't agree anymore. With the black background my eyes do not feel that much stress.
My only problem is when I switch to a web browser with the white background! 
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I like light background with dark text
Be Simple
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My first monitor was bought almost 30 years ago for my Timex ZX Spectrum 2048
It was a green phosphor crt. A rounded black case monitor with a red power button on top. I don't know its brand or anything but was quite usual those days.
Everything was a shade of green... I loved it!
Eh... actually I didn't. Whenever I could I sneaked to the B/W TV and later on (and better yet) on the color TV.
I've worked on many systems, and the console based usually have black or blue backgrounds and at the time I didn't have any problems with them but the truth is that C# syntax richness can't compare with any of those.
Passed all these years I tried some themes for VS with black backgrounds but it messes wit my head. I take way much time to read things and it messes with my focus doing things.
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My favorite font is Georgia.
Try it, you'll immediatly see the benefits...
I'll let you discover without posting the "spoiler"... :P
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