Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
21–30 of 68 posts
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#22bassdrive.com, itunes -> radio -> electronic -> bassdrive ...
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#23I think this has been discussed a couple of times here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936
As new users sign up to HN, and older submissions drop down the list, it's the sort of question which is apt to come up a couple of times.
Can one get an RSS feed for specific topics here? (I looked but did not see a way.)
It's a feature on Reddit, and being able to subscribe to something such as listings of books, music, etc. would be handy.
Then if someone wants to pose the question again they can refer to the initial posting and ask people to add their comments there.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#24It varies, though it tends to be noisy repetitive semi-drone electronic-ish stuff.
Lately I'm liking Holy Fuck.
(Though I dug up some Hawkwind, too, for some odd reason.)
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#25Sometimes, music with lyrics in the language I'm learning. I don't understand most of it, but my ear gets better at picking out words, and properly-conjugated phrases start to sound natural to me, even if I don't know what they mean yet.
But that's only when I feel I need to be pulled along. Once I get into flow, I don't see or hear anything except what I'm doing. My music will end and I won't notice until 2 hours later when I come up for air.
In "Peopleware", DeMarco and Lister are even more explicit: if programmers need to put on headphones to drown out ambient noise, they're using up the very creativity they're being paid so much for.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#26daft punk
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#27Philip Glass is my favorite to listen to while coding. It's prefect for both background music while focusing on a difficult problem and for putting into the foreground when you just need to take a second away from the problem.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#28Mostly hip-hop, especially freestyles.
Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#29Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?
#30I think this has been discussed a couple of times here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936
As new users sign up to HN, and older submissions drop down the list, it's the sort of question which is apt to come up a couple of times.
Yes, and it's the kind of thing searching was invented for. But for some reason HN refuses to provide a way to search posts and comments (no, having to go to Google and search news.ycombinator.com is not decent search. Google doesn't take into consideration how long ago a post was, how many comments it had and how many votes it received, all information I think is useful for determining relevance of the results).