Code Music
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I like to code to the sound of tormented souls screaming.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I'm sitting here at my desk getting ready to start coding. The thought crossed my mind, "I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code." (Yeah... I might be stalling just a little bit...) I'm not asking what you like in general, but more when you are in the process of coding (Is there a difference?). Do you find that certain types of music help with coding vs debugging? I'm afraid that the answer will be similar to my answer to this question... Depends on the day. If I'm trying to figure something out, then I like it as quiet as possible. If it's just grunt work, then I like just about anything lively. What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction. Anyway, I'm curious to know what works for y'all.
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I'm sitting here at my desk getting ready to start coding. The thought crossed my mind, "I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code." (Yeah... I might be stalling just a little bit...) I'm not asking what you like in general, but more when you are in the process of coding (Is there a difference?). Do you find that certain types of music help with coding vs debugging? I'm afraid that the answer will be similar to my answer to this question... Depends on the day. If I'm trying to figure something out, then I like it as quiet as possible. If it's just grunt work, then I like just about anything lively. What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction. Anyway, I'm curious to know what works for y'all.
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I get errr... involved... with music and distracted too many people :-O
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I sit here at home and scream my head off. No-one cares.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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I used to listen to a lot of music but lately I've been listening to sports talk radio.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
sports talk radio.
Hockey Talk Radio?:~
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I used to listen to a lot of music but lately I've been listening to sports talk radio.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
I tend to switch between Radio7 and Radio4. Trying to avoid Mrs Dales Diary Womans Hour and the like.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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John C wrote:
sports talk radio.
Hockey Talk Radio?:~
Beach Volleyball FM. It encourages you to imagine things.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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John C wrote:
sports talk radio.
Hockey Talk Radio?:~
Yup, there's no other sports I'm interested in listening to discussion about on the radio. Specifically the Canucks Lunch which is basically from lunch onwards all about the Vancouver Canucks hockey team and hockey in general with a smattering of the Canadian Football League and a bit of talk about every other pro sport in North America but I tune out on anything but hockey.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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I tend to switch between Radio7 and Radio4. Trying to avoid Mrs Dales Diary Womans Hour and the like.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I used to listen to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) which has similar schemes to BBC radio but with less radio plays and proper pronunciation ;). However it's a *lot* of politics and there's very little less interesting than Canadian Politics.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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That's it, really. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Metallica. Stuff like that.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
C'mon Christian. Admin that you have a secret stash of the Pussycat Dolls.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I used to listen to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) which has similar schemes to BBC radio but with less radio plays and proper pronunciation ;). However it's a *lot* of politics and there's very little less interesting than Canadian Politics.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
there's very little less interesting than Canadian Politics
To be avoided at all costs. The two stations I mentioned are mainly comedy shows such as The Goons, Round The Horne, Tony Hancock. Dont know if you've heard of any of them, but they are mostly old radio series from the 60s and 70s. Radio4 does some more serious stuff but also plays, book-readings etc. As I'm on my own, I find the noise of talking in the background, comforting. Unless I'm really steaming into a chunk of coding, in which case I really don't notice it.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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C'mon Christian. Admin that you have a secret stash of the Pussycat Dolls.
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
When I grow up, I wanna be in movies. I don't care if you look at my, do your thing while I play with my.... My daughter listens to them, just across the hall. I have a louder stereo, so I can drown it out, but from time to time, I listen so I know who to blame if she's pregnant in a year.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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When I grow up, I wanna be in movies. I don't care if you look at my, do your thing while I play with my.... My daughter listens to them, just across the hall. I have a louder stereo, so I can drown it out, but from time to time, I listen so I know who to blame if she's pregnant in a year.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
I listen so I know who to blame if she's pregnant in a year.
As far as I'm aware pussycat dolls is a girls band. Unless the biological rules have been rewritten, a male has to be involved at some stage.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I'm sitting here at my desk getting ready to start coding. The thought crossed my mind, "I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code." (Yeah... I might be stalling just a little bit...) I'm not asking what you like in general, but more when you are in the process of coding (Is there a difference?). Do you find that certain types of music help with coding vs debugging? I'm afraid that the answer will be similar to my answer to this question... Depends on the day. If I'm trying to figure something out, then I like it as quiet as possible. If it's just grunt work, then I like just about anything lively. What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction. Anyway, I'm curious to know what works for y'all.
Loud, blaring, classic hard ROCK! Metal too!
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I'm sitting here at my desk getting ready to start coding. The thought crossed my mind, "I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code." (Yeah... I might be stalling just a little bit...) I'm not asking what you like in general, but more when you are in the process of coding (Is there a difference?). Do you find that certain types of music help with coding vs debugging? I'm afraid that the answer will be similar to my answer to this question... Depends on the day. If I'm trying to figure something out, then I like it as quiet as possible. If it's just grunt work, then I like just about anything lively. What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction. Anyway, I'm curious to know what works for y'all.
Mostly doom and death metal, but really any song that's mathematical and highly technical helps me focus.
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John C wrote:
there's very little less interesting than Canadian Politics
To be avoided at all costs. The two stations I mentioned are mainly comedy shows such as The Goons, Round The Horne, Tony Hancock. Dont know if you've heard of any of them, but they are mostly old radio series from the 60s and 70s. Radio4 does some more serious stuff but also plays, book-readings etc. As I'm on my own, I find the noise of talking in the background, comforting. Unless I'm really steaming into a chunk of coding, in which case I really don't notice it.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Does Magna Carter mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Does Magna Carter mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Magic! The Blood Donor and the Test Pilot are two of my faves.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I'm sitting here at my desk getting ready to start coding. The thought crossed my mind, "I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code." (Yeah... I might be stalling just a little bit...) I'm not asking what you like in general, but more when you are in the process of coding (Is there a difference?). Do you find that certain types of music help with coding vs debugging? I'm afraid that the answer will be similar to my answer to this question... Depends on the day. If I'm trying to figure something out, then I like it as quiet as possible. If it's just grunt work, then I like just about anything lively. What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction. Anyway, I'm curious to know what works for y'all.
At the moment, post- and drone-metal like jesu, Torche, Sunn 0))), Isis, Boris, Baroness, Mammatus, Ufomammut, Om, Red Sparowes and Pelican. Or some REAL metal like (early) Slayer or Metallica Or maybe some Japanese psychedelia like Michio Murihara, You Ishihara, Ghost, White Heaven, The Stars or Marble Sheep. Or maybe some punk like Fugazi, The Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Descendents, Black Flag or Angry Samoans. Or maybe some post-punk stuff like Shellac, Mission of Burma, Gang of Four or The Fall. Or maybe some jazz (niiice[^]) - mainly Miles and Coltrane. Or some math-rock like Tortoise or Slint Or some prog - Rush, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator. Or maybe some country - I likes me some Johnny Cash, Hank Williams or Hank III Or maybe something in a French pop-style like April March or Stereolab Damn - I've got a 60GB iPod with little to no space left - there's more genres there than you can shake a stick at :-) I have no particular genre I listen to when I'm coding - it's whatever takes my fancy.
Matthew Page wrote:
What I can't do is listen to books on tape. It's a little to much distraction.
That I can agree with - I have some spoken word stuff, which I can't listen to while wanting to do anything else.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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John C wrote:
there's very little less interesting than Canadian Politics
To be avoided at all costs. The two stations I mentioned are mainly comedy shows such as The Goons, Round The Horne, Tony Hancock. Dont know if you've heard of any of them, but they are mostly old radio series from the 60s and 70s. Radio4 does some more serious stuff but also plays, book-readings etc. As I'm on my own, I find the noise of talking in the background, comforting. Unless I'm really steaming into a chunk of coding, in which case I really don't notice it.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I was looking for new British comedy tv shows to "acquire" and was surprised at two things: on British TV there are an unbelievable number of sketch comedy shows, every network seems to have half a dozen of them and what was more surprising was the number of radio plays / yet more sketch comedy on the radio. It appears that comedic actors progress from sketch on the radio to sketch on TV to regular comedy series on tv. Quite a different model than here in North America although Canada does come a little closer to the British model than the U.S.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson