What are you listening to?
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
If I'm coding, it's usually something without lyrics; a gaming OST or something. I use it to drown out conversations and sales calls. The Skyrim soundtrack is a go to if I don't have a specific craving. I picked up Heroes of Might and Magic II over the weekend, which has led me to have the OST on repeat during working hours. Send help. :-O
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
If I need to concentrate on something, it's total silence for me. I'm not good at ignoring noises. When I was working in an office, I *have* used headphones playing white noise to drown out sounds - ringing phones, conversations, the guy in the next cubicle typing loudly on his keyboard... If I'm working on repetitive, mind-numbing tasks that don't require much effort...that's when I *might* listen to music. I try to leave those tasks for Friday afternoons if that's something I have control over. As I'm getting older, I find I'm in a much better mood working on those tasks that can show immediate results, as opposed to working on the hard problems, even when finding solutions would provide a better sense of accomplishment. If you wanted to know *what* I'm listening to...that'll be a post for another time.
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
At home I like to put on sports like football, baseball or hockey. At work it's usually Acoustic Alchemy or soft house.
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At the moment, I'm enjoying the last of my precious silence: in under an hour, Herself will be home, and all I will hear is her oxygen machine, the TV on loud (as she's partly deaf), and herself screaming abuse at whatever show is on it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
the TV on loud (as she's partly deaf)
That would annoy me to no end. I know it's not politically correct, and I understand it might be downright horrible for me to say this, but my position is that if you're the one with the affliction, then it's only respectful to try not to let that affect others. My solution in that scenario would be to wear headphones. I'm not just saying that when it applies to others. I'd be the first to do it if I was in that position. But the world is built backwards. That's why I'm a single guy.
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Only if I'm in VS writing code, which seems to only be about 40% of my time these days. I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting. But when I code, I'm listening to prog (classic and new), 60s/70s rock, the occasional Celtic rock LP, a classical/choral work, new age/ambient, or my own works. Mostly Pink Floyd, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, Zappa, Joe Walsh, Peter Gabriel, Frost, Wolfstone, Bach, Mozart, Eno, and hundreds of others.
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TNCaver wrote:
I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting
That got me wondering...how would that even work? If you're playing music on external speakers, your mic would pick it up, and make a mess for the other participants. I haven't tried this, but can you pipe music to your headphones that would *not* be broadcast to everybody else?
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Only if I'm in VS writing code, which seems to only be about 40% of my time these days. I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting. But when I code, I'm listening to prog (classic and new), 60s/70s rock, the occasional Celtic rock LP, a classical/choral work, new age/ambient, or my own works. Mostly Pink Floyd, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, Zappa, Joe Walsh, Peter Gabriel, Frost, Wolfstone, Bach, Mozart, Eno, and hundreds of others.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
TNCaver wrote:
prog (classic and new)
I just found 3 new prog albums I will be ordering today! 0: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World 1: Neil Morse Band - Innocence and Danger 2: Spock's Beard - Noise Floor
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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OriginalGriff wrote:
the TV on loud (as she's partly deaf)
That would annoy me to no end. I know it's not politically correct, and I understand it might be downright horrible for me to say this, but my position is that if you're the one with the affliction, then it's only respectful to try not to let that affect others. My solution in that scenario would be to wear headphones. I'm not just saying that when it applies to others. I'd be the first to do it if I was in that position. But the world is built backwards. That's why I'm a single guy.
It's less annoying than her oxygen machine, which sounds like someone digging up the road outside with a Kango. Fortunately she doesn't use it when we go to bed. Probably because she'd strangle herself with the piping when she "sausage rolled" herself with the entire duvet ... :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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At the moment, I'm enjoying the last of my precious silence: in under an hour, Herself will be home, and all I will hear is her oxygen machine, the TV on loud (as she's partly deaf), and herself screaming abuse at whatever show is on it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Then you probably will like this song, which was originally titled "She blinded me with silence" Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science - YouTube[^] :-\
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
Enya helps with sailing away.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
Before lockdown, I used earphone to escape from others & distraction. My music player has around 600+ songs.
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
Music - at the moment mostly ambient/depressive black metal (of the non-trve variety, I guess) like Ghost Bath, Wolves in the Throne Room, Unreqvited, Harakiri for the Sky, Bosse-de-Nage or the like.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
I like lyrics when I'm not coding. Aesop Rock's poetry (it almost can't be called rap but def hip hop) is mind bending, and I love him for it. Otherwise while I'm coding I need quiet or something instrumental. Beats I can handle, but usually I'll listen to Tobacco/Black Moth Super Rainbow, or El-P and his dad Harry Keys, or otherwise something abstract like that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
InstruMENTAL Jazz aka smoothJazz examples are: fattburger, Spyro gyra, Ronny Jordan, Euge Groove, Kim Waters,Joyce Cooling, Craig Chaquico, Peter White, Larry Carlton, 3rd Force,acoustic alchemy,four play,four80East, Paul Hardcastle, The Rippingtons, Konstantin Klashtorni, Vincent Ingala and many more.
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:( Ugh. So tough. I really thrive best when I'm creating. Do you have another creative outlet?
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TNCaver wrote:
I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting
That got me wondering...how would that even work? If you're playing music on external speakers, your mic would pick it up, and make a mess for the other participants. I haven't tried this, but can you pipe music to your headphones that would *not* be broadcast to everybody else?
I have my much of my favorite music on my phone, so I'd listen to that using earbuds. Plus I keep my laptop mic muted most of the time in Teams so people don't hear my dog going berserk at the UPS, FedEx and USPS trucks, or my wife chattering at me. :laugh:
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I'm curious: while working at the keyboard, do you listen to something? White noise, music, nature sounds? Dish.
The sound of my hoarse breathing from screaming at the computer?
cheers Chris Maunder
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TNCaver wrote:
prog (classic and new)
I just found 3 new prog albums I will be ordering today! 0: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World 1: Neil Morse Band - Innocence and Danger 2: Spock's Beard - Noise Floor
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
Good selection. I'm just now getting into prog metal, so I've got some catching up to do with Dream Theater. Although, being a keyboard player, watching Jordan Ruddess play makes me want to give it all up. Haven't listened to Morse since he quit Spock's Beard, and haven't hardly any of their latest either. A drummer friend of mine has been turning me onto some great new prog from The Pineapple Thief, Frost, and Lalu. There must be thousands of prog bands I've never heard of, much less listened to.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
