Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by tlrobinson » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 12:57 AM UTC

ken wrote: post #25

Sometimes, 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 la…

"Sometimes, music with lyrics in the language I'm learning"

I assume you don't mean programming language? If that's what you did mean, where can I get music with lyrics in Python, Lisp, etc?

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

#42

Post by brent » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 1:19 AM UTC

sjh wrote: post #13

When I was still working in an office, I found listening to film scores, in particular, very helpful in shutting out the noise of the office.

I'll second that. My suggestions are: American Beauty, Atonement, Braveheart, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings I II III, Meet Joe Black, Requiem for a Dream, The Last Samurai, and There Will Be Blood.

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by alexsolo » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 1:34 AM UTC

I listen to a lot of Pandora... but recently, I realized that iTunes has radio stations built in. A really good trance station is Electronic -> ABF Underground.

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by treeform » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 1:54 AM UTC

enya

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

#45

Post by christefano » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 2:48 AM UTC

For this last project a lot of what I listened to was the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack by Bear McCreary.

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by jdavid » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 2:56 AM UTC

pandora FTW!

stations i created "rabbit in the moon" "hacker radio" "garbage" "fluke"

any other cool strings to create stations off of?

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by mickt » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 3:13 AM UTC

Groove Salad at SomaFm: http://somafm.com/

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by sjh » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 3:23 AM UTC

brent wrote: post #42

sjh wrote: post #13

When I was still working in an office, I found listening to film scores, in particular, very helpful in shutting out the noise of the office.

I'll second that. My suggestions are: American Beauty, Atonement, Braveheart, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings I II III, Meet Joe Black, Requiem for a Dream, The Last Samurai, and There Will Be Blood.

The soundtracks to Batman Begins and the Battlestar Galactica mini-series are not dissimilar to that for There Will Be Blood (which I've just been to see).

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by srp » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 3:59 AM UTC

Gothic radio on the net. R1Live, darkwave or www.gothicradio.tv.

All that screaming behaves almost like white noise for me :-P

I once downloaded a recording of heavy rain from a nature site. I found that sound very very conducive to coding :)

Re: Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking?

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Post by Hexstream » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 4:53 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #41

ken wrote: post #25

Sometimes, 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 la…

"Sometimes, music with lyrics in the language I'm learning" I assume you don't mean programming language? If that's what you did mean, where can I get music with lyrics in Python, Lisp, etc?

http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/EternalFlame....