Dead quiet or making some noise?
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I'm sitting here trying to get a project out for a customer by Workboat Show (link[^] if you are interested in marine automation)... Anyway, I've been family jewels to the wall on this project for the past 2 weeks, and will continue to be for the next 3 weeks, including 2 weeks of travel in there. I have an insane amount of work to get done and I find that having some fast-beat music at just under conversation volume going in the background helps me concentrate and get this stuff done. So do you prefer to work in complete silence, or with something in the background?
Yes. Depends on my mental state at the time. I have some headphones with 29dB passive noise reduction (converted shooters muffs) that allow me to choose whatever I need to aid my concentration.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I'm sitting here trying to get a project out for a customer by Workboat Show (link[^] if you are interested in marine automation)... Anyway, I've been family jewels to the wall on this project for the past 2 weeks, and will continue to be for the next 3 weeks, including 2 weeks of travel in there. I have an insane amount of work to get done and I find that having some fast-beat music at just under conversation volume going in the background helps me concentrate and get this stuff done. So do you prefer to work in complete silence, or with something in the background?
I listen to Bluegrass music. Ricky Scaggs, Earl Scruggs, Tony Trishka, etc. The beat is always fast and melodies can be tuned in or out as needed. Definately do not code in a quiet room!
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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I'm sitting here trying to get a project out for a customer by Workboat Show (link[^] if you are interested in marine automation)... Anyway, I've been family jewels to the wall on this project for the past 2 weeks, and will continue to be for the next 3 weeks, including 2 weeks of travel in there. I have an insane amount of work to get done and I find that having some fast-beat music at just under conversation volume going in the background helps me concentrate and get this stuff done. So do you prefer to work in complete silence, or with something in the background?
I read new stuff, documentation, etc. in complete silence. I write code while listening to music. It is important for music and thoughts to be able to distract you. Programming is far more complex for the brain than listening to music. So at certain point music become background, so I don't listen to it anymore. When this happens it still distract me for explicitly think about the code I write, so I think more about the idea of what I want to write and how it'll happen, but actual coding become reflex. Then I write the best code, until the distraction become too much, so never do this at work.