Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by jamesbritt » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 7:57 PM UTC

Postrock. Lately it's Epic45, Lymbyc Systym, Petrograd in Transit, The Berg Sans Nipple, My Education.

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by gkelly » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 8:08 PM UTC

Groove Salad on SomaFM: a nicely chilled plate of ambient beats.

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by drhowarddrfine » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 11:51 PM UTC

Every forum on the internet gets someone to start one of these threads which goes on seemingly forever and nobody reads them. What is this? MySpace?

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 12:17 AM UTC

mindhacker wrote: post #9

http://www.simplynoise.com/ http://www.simplynoise.com/download.html#soundscapes

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Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by taifun » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 11:38 AM UTC

Nervetattoo wrote: post #45

Depends on mood and problem I'm currently solving. For trivial coding I can listen to anything and would probably go for something indie. (Currently the "trivial music" has been Florence+The Machine, Dirty Projectors, Crystal Castles and Grizzly Bear). When I'm stuck on a hard to solve bug/issue I like to go for metal as I tend to get aggressive and that helps me get the aggression out and focus on the task. But for…

I agree, Paganini is great.

(And, it is quite fun that your nick is the title of a Motorpsycho song. Yeah, mine is too.)