ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
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ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
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#2how much money did ChaCha pay Techcrunch to get all this coverage?
Re: ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
#3how much money did ChaCha pay Techcrunch to get all this coverage?
You have to pay money to get TC to call you "fail"?
Re: ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
#4how much money did ChaCha pay Techcrunch to get all this coverage?
Did you actually read the article? It seems highly unlikely that there is anything shady going on.
Besides, that is a pretty swanky setup.
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#5aside from being really cool i've always wondered how useful this would be. i'd lose whatever window i was flipping through and unless he's using some kvm switch, minimally he's running at least 2 boxes. again, cool to look at... but otherwise what good is it if you can't utilize all of it.
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#6Can't see the video outside the US :| Wonder what the application for this is? I can imagine maybe for trading and dashboard scenarios?
At an old workplace we did some unscientific usability testing on big screen and multimonitor setups.
One thing I found was that 30" was too big. For me, flicking the mouse required you to track your eyes/head too much. 27" was borderline, but I found 2x24" was the best setup for coding - one primary screen and one secondary screen.
3x24" was quite good if you had a tertiary task - e.g. having chat/email/etc open. For me though, this was just distracting. It was better as a task that I switched in and out from.
Any more and the redundancy of screen real-estate started to be distracting rather than useful.
Re: ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
#7aside from being really cool i've always wondered how useful this would be. i'd lose whatever window i was flipping through and unless he's using some kvm switch, minimally he's running at least 2 boxes. again, cool to look at... but otherwise what good is it if you can't utilize all of it.
i can only speak to having 3.
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/163594/IMG_0077.png
I like it quite a bit...it helps especially when you have 3, 4,5 IDEs open and don't feel like constantly resizing/maximizing them.
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#8Eight monitors, but only a single-core CPU?
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#9The bike is a pretty cool idea. I could see myself pedaling to burn off extra steam rather than just tapping my knee up and down.
Hook that thing up to a light or a series of LEDs and you've got enough whiz-bangery to set off my OCD and force a continual state of working out.
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#10Proof that success (at least in whatever past-life he came from) and wealth do not equate to good taste. I like the library though.