The website is far too slow to load. :-(
Actually, in a normal day, it's very fast. However not all sites are prepared to hit #1 on HN..
Music for Programming
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Re: Music for Programming
#12The website timed out on me, but...
For me, it's got to be techno - generally happy hardcore - fast, repetitive beats and uplifting but inane (and hence not distracting) lyrics.
(I may be the only one. ;) )
Re: Music for Programming
#13...slightly of subject: I love programming with classical music. Classic guitar music in particular, but any classical will do. I rarely listen to classical other than when driving or when coding.
Are you a fan of Paco de Lucia by any chance? I love Entre dos aguas.
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#14The website timed out on me, but... For me, it's got to be techno - generally happy hardcore - fast, repetitive beats and uplifting but inane (and hence not distracting) lyrics. (I may be the only one. ;) )
Probably the site got HN-ed. Timing out for me as well
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#15...slightly of subject: I love programming with classical music. Classic guitar music in particular, but any classical will do. I rarely listen to classical other than when driving or when coding.
Are you a fan of Paco de Lucia by any chance? I love Entre dos aguas.
I am, and I do as well.
Re: Music for Programming
#16The website timed out on me, but... For me, it's got to be techno - generally happy hardcore - fast, repetitive beats and uplifting but inane (and hence not distracting) lyrics. (I may be the only one. ;) )
I quite like harsh breakcore from time to time, especially in noisy offices.
Stuff like Venetian snares - since it's so mental it you have to raise your game to work with / against it.
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#17I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming:
1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip)
2. I pick one song and repeat it for the entire day, sometimes for several days in a row. I’ve listened songs in the above genres so much that the lyrics don’t become much of a distraction, including new ones.
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#18The website timed out on me, but... For me, it's got to be techno - generally happy hardcore - fast, repetitive beats and uplifting but inane (and hence not distracting) lyrics. (I may be the only one. ;) )
Same, I've got the entirety of the PaulWay mixes (http://mabula.net/mixes/) on shuffle. Been using them for a couple of years now, not every track is good for every day but if one's not working out I just hit 'next'.
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#19I have my own "playlist" for programming and studying. I've found the key to not being distracted by the music is to avoid anything with singing and stick with stuff that's already familiar. My choices include a lot of ambient electronic and classical music. Oddly, metal also seems to work when the lyrics are completely indecipherable growls and screams.
Music in a foreign language works for me almost as well as instrumental music. If I hear Finnish, I somehow must listen to the words, but even though I'm proficient in English, I can just let the words go by without thinking about them.
I'm sure this phenomenon has a name, but I don't know it. Another aspect is that I can read English (focusing on that) and listen to Finnish at the same time, and I'll remember both what I heard and what I read. Doesn't work the other way around, or if both are the same language.
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#20A little playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/premasagar/playlist/23HecvNHK1...