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Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
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#12I have this weird memory of Tom Hudson, former Atari developer who I think ended up at Autocad, listening to the Rambo II soundtrack while developing. Not sure why this memory stuck.
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#13My inner voice.
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#14Sports Radio - you have to know everything about your favorite teams :-)
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#15Four Tet, Burial, Aphex Twin, µ-Ziq, etc.
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#16Muchado in the Classic Rock and Techno/Trance genres, and 80s music, but sometimes outside of it too.
From Moby, Pink Floyd, Lindsey Stirling, Disturbed, and M83 are common.
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#17Anamanaguchi or "Pogo" (https://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron/) station on Pandora
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#18Grateful Dead shows on the Internet Archive.
They're free. They're long so you don't need to be interrupted to change a track. The really spacey jams put you in a creative mindspace.
Plus, one of the songwriters founded the EFF!
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#19Four Tet, Burial, Aphex Twin, µ-Ziq, etc.
Nice choices! Boards of Canada too?
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#20Mostly various forms of jazz--lately I've been on a roll with Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra. But the key thing is I find it distracting to hear voices while I'm trying to work. So mostly music with no vocals.
I feel the same way about vocals but I also try to avoid jazz with horn solos, so I stick to piano jazz like Hiromi, Ahmad Jamal, or Chick Corea.