Code Music
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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
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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.
so, you're claiming all these sexually explicit songs are about lesbianism ? And that's supposed to thrill me ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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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
John C wrote:
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
Sad but true. These things follow trendiness. The revenues from advertising are falling with the increase in numbers of channels, therefore if a particular type of show gets very good audience figures, everyone and his brother starts making that type of show. That is why on UK terrestrial TV, at least, we have 200 Cooking shows, 150 Antiques/Heirloom valuation shows and until recently 500 House Buying shows. I have a slight feeling that the number of Property Buying shows might decrease, can't think why. :) Anyho, a few years ago a sketch show called 'The Fast Show' got such huge audiences that almost all Sit-Coms were abandoned in favour of a 'Fast Show' format, which is, 10 - 45 second skits. There are very few sit-coms left. Those that are, are IMNSVHO, not very good. Two that barely manage to raise their heads above the slime, are 'Not Going Out' and 'Lead Balloon', both (I think) BBC shows. There are others that are passable but not running currently.
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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so, you're claiming all these sexually explicit songs are about lesbianism ? And that's supposed to thrill me ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
How the hell would I know? The only pussycat I listen to (apart from our own fluffy Tigress) is Faster Pussycat. I'd rather gouge my ears off with a rusted spatula than listen to any girl or boy band.
"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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How the hell would I know? The only pussycat I listen to (apart from our own fluffy Tigress) is Faster Pussycat. I'd rather gouge my ears off with a rusted spatula than listen to any girl or boy band.
"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.
I recently got the tab book for 'wake me when it's over', which I think is far and away their best album. Bought it on ebay and the guy lived 10 min away, about 500 metres from my tenants house.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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I recently got the tab book for 'wake me when it's over', which I think is far and away their best album. Bought it on ebay and the guy lived 10 min away, about 500 metres from my tenants house.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
I think is far and away their best album
I'd have to agree - though I also love Faster Pussycat, especially Bathroom Wall.
"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.
I was a music major in college, and I think it forever ruined me for listening while I work. Inevitably if I have any kind of music on, my brain begins to focus exclusively on the music and I get no coding done! :-)
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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.
When time wasting thinking deeply about the model in question and contemplating the various ways to implement ;) - virtually anything, but if I'm really doing the above and not having a 'why did they ask me?' moment then laid back jazz is the only thing that works for me. When coding - silence. Even music overspill from the next office can throw me! (I'm a sensitive guy) When debugging, classical helps me stand back but still retain focus if that makes any sense.
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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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.
You know what would be interesting, in a geeky way, would be music auto-generated in realtime as you code, where what you're coding/doing affects the composition. I wonder if one could "hear" quality, hehe. Marc
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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.
Matthew Page wrote:
I wonder what the people at the Code Project listen to while they code
Hi, David Parson's album "Ngaio Gamelan" (Heavily influenced by his studies of Balinese music; while "electronic" : to my ears this does not belong in the "new age" category and, to my ears, this is one of the best cross-cultural syntheses ever accomplished by a western musician. Captures, for me, my happy memories of time in Ubud, in Bali, and the peaceful pulsing energy of the emerald-green rice fields stretching to the horizon and the remarkable people and culture there) Classical music : particularly baroque : Vivaldi, Couperin, Boccherini, Albinoni. Classical guitar music, flamenco. Hearts of Space selected programs, particularly those programs presenting the human voice from diverse cultures. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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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'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.
The last few weeks it's been Bruckner all the way - the Te Deum, The three masses and, of course, the symphonies. I fear my co workers are getting a tad tired of my sotto voce 'Sanctus!'. :laugh:
Rob Manderson My bloghttp://robmanderson.blogspot.com[^]
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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.
Quiet stuff...Brian Eno's ambient works, that sort of thing. Nothing with lyrics, nothing too distracting.
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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.
Instrumental; jazz, classical, and some New Age. Vocals are too distracting, generally. For example, I was working from home over the weekend. I spent most of the time under the headphones listening to E. Power Biggs[^] playing Bach.
Software Zen:
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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.
When it get's complicated I'm into Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Otherwise mostly 70's and 80's hairball rock off the Zune!
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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Instrumental; jazz, classical, and some New Age. Vocals are too distracting, generally. For example, I was working from home over the weekend. I spent most of the time under the headphones listening to E. Power Biggs[^] playing Bach.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
E. Power Biggs playing Bach
Love it!!
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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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.
Psy Trance