Listening to music whilst working
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benjymous wrote: Actually I have been known to just sit with headphones on but without music, for the same reason. I used to do that occasionally. Unfortunately the person responsible for my doing this had verbal diarrhoea and would often ignore the headphones and talk at me anyway. I eventually took to slouching behind my monitor so he couldn't see I was at my desk :mad:
I'm unfortunate to sit next to the guy who talks at me all the time. I think he's just about starting to grasp now when I don't want to be spoken to, but it's taken 9 months for that to sink in. Shame there's no straightforward way to block out the smell of his cigarettes/hangover :( (Hmm, I wonder what his reaction would be if he stumbled over this post. Dunno if he'd recognise my handle, but he'd probably recognise my sig as I use the same one on emails at work) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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The company I work for has a pretty relaxed policy about developers listening to music whilst coding. Wander round some of our developer areas and you'll see many people hooked up to personal stereos. A nice perk perhaps, but does it affect productivity? What do other CPians think about this? I work from home most of the time, and sometimes I'll have some music on in the background depending on the task I am working on. For example, today I am writing some documentation (:() and I have some fairly unobtrusive streaming radio playing in the background. Whilst coding I tend to prefer peace and quiet - I think my productivity would suffer if I had music on all the time (unless it is something really mellow - anything with full on guitars seems to require too high a slice of my "processing time" :)). Thoughts? My boss once mentioned that there was a study about this conducted by some US college, which proved that proiductivity suffers...
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I has to be something instrumental. If it's got words then I get distracted and, even worse, may accidentally join in :-O If I'm doing stuff at home though, I'm not so fussy.
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I'm unfortunate to sit next to the guy who talks at me all the time. I think he's just about starting to grasp now when I don't want to be spoken to, but it's taken 9 months for that to sink in. Shame there's no straightforward way to block out the smell of his cigarettes/hangover :( (Hmm, I wonder what his reaction would be if he stumbled over this post. Dunno if he'd recognise my handle, but he'd probably recognise my sig as I use the same one on emails at work) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
Not only did the guy talk all the time, he talked complete b*****ks. He even admitted to having caught the clap off his last one night stand. Good grief. You just don't want to hear that kind of stuff, let alone at work. He got sacked eventually for being a waster, thank god.
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The company I work for has a pretty relaxed policy about developers listening to music whilst coding. Wander round some of our developer areas and you'll see many people hooked up to personal stereos. A nice perk perhaps, but does it affect productivity? What do other CPians think about this? I work from home most of the time, and sometimes I'll have some music on in the background depending on the task I am working on. For example, today I am writing some documentation (:() and I have some fairly unobtrusive streaming radio playing in the background. Whilst coding I tend to prefer peace and quiet - I think my productivity would suffer if I had music on all the time (unless it is something really mellow - anything with full on guitars seems to require too high a slice of my "processing time" :)). Thoughts? My boss once mentioned that there was a study about this conducted by some US college, which proved that proiductivity suffers...
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
Music does help my productivity, but there is a side effect. Some people can jsut sit there and listen but I tend to 'get involved' with the music and as its usually heavy metal this frightens people........ :-O Elaine :rose: Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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benjymous wrote: Actually I have been known to just sit with headphones on but without music, for the same reason. I used to do that occasionally. Unfortunately the person responsible for my doing this had verbal diarrhoea and would often ignore the headphones and talk at me anyway. I eventually took to slouching behind my monitor so he couldn't see I was at my desk :mad:
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Simon Capewell wrote: Unfortunately the person responsible for my doing this had verbal diarrhoea and would often ignore the headphones and talk at me anyway. Should have just punched him in the face!:laugh:
Believe me, in my head he'd had a number of severe beatings ;)
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The company I work for has a pretty relaxed policy about developers listening to music whilst coding. Wander round some of our developer areas and you'll see many people hooked up to personal stereos. A nice perk perhaps, but does it affect productivity? What do other CPians think about this? I work from home most of the time, and sometimes I'll have some music on in the background depending on the task I am working on. For example, today I am writing some documentation (:() and I have some fairly unobtrusive streaming radio playing in the background. Whilst coding I tend to prefer peace and quiet - I think my productivity would suffer if I had music on all the time (unless it is something really mellow - anything with full on guitars seems to require too high a slice of my "processing time" :)). Thoughts? My boss once mentioned that there was a study about this conducted by some US college, which proved that proiductivity suffers...
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
I regularly listen to music whilst coding. Working on a trading floor means it's very noisy and distracting. I have around 22Gb of music ripped onto my Laptop, but usually just stick to ambient stuff (moby, guru, goldie, leftfield, even some Jarre). Anything that's too wordy can distract me...
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The company I work for has a pretty relaxed policy about developers listening to music whilst coding. Wander round some of our developer areas and you'll see many people hooked up to personal stereos. A nice perk perhaps, but does it affect productivity? What do other CPians think about this? I work from home most of the time, and sometimes I'll have some music on in the background depending on the task I am working on. For example, today I am writing some documentation (:() and I have some fairly unobtrusive streaming radio playing in the background. Whilst coding I tend to prefer peace and quiet - I think my productivity would suffer if I had music on all the time (unless it is something really mellow - anything with full on guitars seems to require too high a slice of my "processing time" :)). Thoughts? My boss once mentioned that there was a study about this conducted by some US college, which proved that proiductivity suffers...
Faith. Believing in something you *know* isn't true.
I can't listen to music while I am coding. I am a musician on the side and if I try this I find myself listening to the music with more concentration than the coding is getting. I suspect that the same part of the brain that says - Ok he's using a melodic minor scale a third above the chord to bridge down to the fourth is the same part that is deciding what kind of loop controller to use or if I really need a class to handle this or can I get by with a couple of functions. I do, however , turn on the TV and let it be a background drone cause there is nothing on it that will attract my attention. Richard Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger
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;) But do you listen to different types of music depending on the task? Wouldn't really loud thrash rock be too distracting? ;P
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I definately write different code when I am listening to Tool as aposed to NIN :)
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I normally enjoy listening to music while I code. It blocks out all the other noise. :cool: Cheers, Simon "Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)