> Just put several thick textbooks under the monitors. (my personal choice: CLRS + CSAPP + HTDP + Computer Networking + Algorithms 4th :))
It always makes me chuckle inside when a company is too cheap to buy people proper stands for monitors and instead you see people use textbooks from the office reference library… and when you add up the cost of the actual books, it costs an order of magnitude more than the actual made for the purpose stand would cost. Computer networking and algorithms 4th alone already bring you in the 200$ territory if I’m not mistaken.
Not a dog at you in particular, just an observation.
Haha, this is so true. Good observation! With that said, I live in China so most of the books are translated versions so:
1. They're substantially cheaper, the total of those books should be around $100 while the monitor mounts me more than $140
2. Those classical tech books are usually translated by the same publication so the design and size are satisfyingly the same.
It is one of the small things I feel grateful for. Books in China generally cost like $6 ~ $18. The first time I see the price tag of English books it was just jaw-dropping.
It always makes me chuckle inside when a company is too cheap to buy people proper stands for monitors and instead you see people use textbooks from the office reference library… and when you add up the cost of the actual books, it costs an order of magnitude more than the actual made for the purpose stand would cost. Computer networking and algorithms 4th alone already bring you in the 200$ territory if I’m not mistaken.
Not a dog at you in particular, just an observation.