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by ryandrake 974 days ago
Why is this appalling?
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I think it’s fine until someone sends me a screenshot of my website in fullscreen on a giant 4K monitor.
It makes every window interaction slower when I'm helping them and, I assume, when they're alone. I usually have two panes of code and one or terminals on the side so I don't spend time hunting for windows
Because the point of huge monitors in the WIMP paradigm is to display multiple windows simultaneously.
I assume you're not referring to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles as a theory of dark matter - what does WIMP mean here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)

The design developed at Xerox Parc.

^multitasking

"We suffered for years waiting to get true multitasking and this newb doesn't even use it!" ;-)