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Comment by aloisdg | Hacker News Reader

Not if you code a lot. It is not rare for developer to use vertical screen. https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_200135_Q9Fh4.jpg

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I mean I'd say it's pretty rare. I've only seen a handful of people do it personally, and I've never seen anyone exclusively use a portrait screen.

With modern monitors being as large as they are already, I'd say the need for a vertical monitor is likely an indication you're working with spaghetti code.

With modern monitors being as large as they are already, I'd say the need for a landscape monitor is likely an indication you are working in callback hell.

Landscape monitor just means you tile your windows and prefer scanning side-to-side rather than up-and-down.

But it's not code all the way from side to side; I've got project structure on, etc.

Meanwhile on the screenshot in the comment I responded to, the vertical monitor is shown only to display a long script or program of sorts, nothing else. I googled for the images of "vertical monitor programming", and the same is true for virtually every picture of such setup. I feel it's not a coincidence

I just started using an extra vertical screen, but when I move my head to the left, everything turns red then darkens, and when I move my head to the right, everything turns green then darkens. Should I be wearing those red/green 3d glasses to compensate?

Yeah but usually vertical screens are really easy to rotate back to landscape. Does anyone use an exclusively vertical screen? I've never come across it.

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