I do some personal work in MacOS 9 on a MacBook Pismo and use the standard Platinum sounds at a low sound level. I personally find the little click and chirp soundtrack quite useful as audio feedback. Though if I were to do this in the office, for the sake of my personal safety, I think I would wear headphones!
Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
#302When I was writing electronic trading systems, I experimented with audio logging for different types of fills / cancellations / other trading events. It was useful, but somewhat annoying. I disabled it later.
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#303I worked in a quantitative trading company, and the traders would use sound effects for every kind of alert. Each time a risk limit gets hit, a disembodied voice would say " limits!" or make a pig oink or something. There was a shared folder of thousands of .wav files.
It reminds me of plane cockpits where the system barks out things like "Terrain! Pull up!" if the pilot needs to react instantly.
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#304Come to think of it, Windows 95, XP, etc. had lots of sounds built in. ICQ played a typewriter sound with every single keystroke. It was a bit annoying, but if I listen to those sounds now it definitely brings back a strong sense of nostalgia.
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#305I worked in a quantitative trading company, and the traders would use sound effects for every kind of alert. Each time a risk limit gets hit, a disembodied voice would say " limits!" or make a pig oink or something. There was a shared folder of thousands of .wav files. It reminds me of plane cockpits where the system barks out things like "Terrain! Pull up!" if the pilot needs to react instantly.
I suppose quantitative traders use the "Retard! Retard! Retard!" Soundbite for slightly different reasons than airliners
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
One place I worked at the success was a golf clap. The fail was crowd going 'awwww' as if someone had just missed a putt. Nice and simple. Since the build took 3-4 hours you did not hear it much. Before everyone went 'open office' it was semi fun to have sounds on different build actions. Now not so much :(
There’s… a particular sound pack that had those two sounds. Maybe different ones, sure, but this just unlocked a memory of two very particular sounds from my early Windows days. Might have been built-in, or maybe from Microsoft Plus.
That is very possible. Pretty sure we scrapped it off some random sound site.
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#307From [1] The story of PING: ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure. [1] https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~m…
Mac version, courtesy of chatGPT: stdbuf -oL ping news.ycombinator.com | grep --line-buffered -o "[0-9]* bytes" | xargs -I {} say "Ping {}"
to keep it simple: `ping news.ycombinator.com | xargs -I% say ping`
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
#308Not sure if more people have that but I hate sounds. I turn off all system sounds on my OS. I turn off all notifications on the phone. It is not like I get called often but still had bad memories from former work where everyone had the same phone and the same sounds and I was often working 24/7 support. Hated that work and hated my morning wake up alarm that I had to change every couple months because each one I hate…
Yup me too. I read some scientific paper which I cannot find recently that some low percentage of people get annouyet by repeating predictable sound patterns and I definitely belong to that group.
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
#310This sounds like an idea borrowed from games or other media where doing certain actions results in an audible feedback. This is often done for the benefit of the audience, or to enhance the gaming experience, but I had an idea to implement this in my workspace to somehow influence my brain and make it more enticing to write code and somehow beat procrastination. I wrote a Python daemon which on startup loads small .w…
I'd love to try this out, do you have a name for the project so I know how to search in a later date?