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I use 4 at home:
Monitor 1 - Code
Monitor 2 - Web Browser (for code)
Monitor 3 - Web Browser (for research)
Monitor 4 - Other (Music, Youtube vids, RDP sessions, log viewing (tail -f), etc)
At work I only have 3 and I can say that i do miss my 4th monitor...
I guess it is one of those things: once you have it you don't want to be without it.
Eric
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Way back before we had personal computers I sat at 6 desks at once. One for my typewriter, one for my adding machine, one for my desk calendar, one for my stapler, one for my pencil cup and one for my phone.
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I've found that two has the biggest impact in regards to improved productivity. It hurts when I have to take the laptop out of the docking station and use it's "small" 17" screen all by itself. Three monitors is nice, but doesn't have the impact of two. Any more than three and I find the additional view space to be distracting.
I can see how having additional screens for monitoring systems might be helpful, but I'd want them to be hooked into another machine rather than a part of my rig.
Scott E. Corbett
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I moved to two screens about 15 years ago. Back then they were both 19-inch CRTs. After working like that for even a couple of weeks, I swore I would never go back to one screen. With flat panels life just got even better, and I now run four screens. Two are 1920*1200 and two are 1600*1200.
My typical layout is:
1. web browser open to the output of the application I'm developing (with other sites on tabs)
2. VStudio
3. View of SSMS, or Oracle tool, or MySQL workbench, or some other data source
4. Virtual console to the server I'm using
My biggest complaint is that every screen you buy these days is only 1080 tall, unless you get some ridiculous piece of hardware. I'm going to keep my collection of monitors until they can no longer be repaired.
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I use 3 on my development box, well really 2.5 since the 3rd ends up much more lightly loaded than the other two. I had 4 at one point - 3 external + the laptops build in screen - but found the 4th ended up getting next to nothing on it and went back to having my laptop closed and the dock under one monitor to reclaim a bit of desk space.
OTOH I could use 4 easily for a systems analysis type task I'm doing on a separate system. 1.5 for an explosion of small windows style UI data source, 0.5 for a word file with notes in text, 1 for a spreadsheet with notes/planning in tabular form, and 1 for the application I'm ultimately sending data to.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If you are running applications with logging output or monitoring live systems or watching programs operate, having 4+ monitors can be totally reasonable.
For example, right now I have CP open and my IDE on my two monitors. That means I can't see the build logs from Slack, or the live stats from Production, or my e-mail, or my CLI.
If part of your job involves keeping an eye on Production (probably the case at a small company / startup), then it's totally reasonable to have a monitor or two just watching the live data. Trying to debug an issue can often involve a web browser + an IDE + a DB window (CLI) and that's an easy excuse for at least a pair of monitors.
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Currently I have 3 screens.
1) The text of the IDE on a portrait monitor, or Unity Logs while the game is running.
2) Unity engine live editor plus the IDE tools (properties, solution explorer)
3) Unity engine gameplay.
I'm considering getting a fourth so that I can have the IDE and Logs on different monitors, since I often have to move the logs elsewhere in order to see them while stepping through the debugger.
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At work I switched my 2 smaller screens to a single 3440x1440 screen. At home I have 2 2560x1440 monitors on the wings and a single 3440x1440 in the center. If I added 2 more screens, I'd have to start going Lain on them and have them on arms above the other monitors pointing down towards me. That sounds crazy to me. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it, but it sounds crazy. I never said I was sane.
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Why? Do you fear it's dead and still ok at the same time?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'm still waiting for my quantum co-processor and also neural co-processor. Or alternatively it can be akin to graphics card. With it's specialized instruction set. It would offload some specialized tasks from CPU. Heaven. 
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Just wear thick gloves and body armour in case the cat is still alive - you'll be fine!
But if it isn't, you're going to really annoy Sander!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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<reference>"Oh my god, it's full of cats!"</reference>
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"2001: A Cyberspace Odyssey" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: But if it isn't, you're going to really annoy Sander!
I haven't seen Brij online for a while either...
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Dij doesn't login much - I changed his password to a GUID for security, and it's hard to type without opposable thumbs.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know a lot of people who don't use thumbs when typing...
And now that I'm paying attention to it it seems I'm using only one 
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Wow, fantastic news!!!!
Or not.
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And he won't know which until he opens the box...
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Good observation! It's a shame it made collapsing the state.
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Send it to ISIS?
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OriginalGriff wrote: which until he opens the box
I wonder what would pandora think
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, after all this time, if the cat is still alive then probably "Elephant! Elephant! Medic!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You need to work on your spelling. How can you misspell your name as Sander?
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