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 terpua » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:18 AM UTC

http://hypem.com

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

#12

Post by TriinT » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:23 AM UTC

Bach. Any other music causes me to lose focus. Total silence drives me slowly insane. Bach is just perfect.

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

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Post by netconnect » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:25 AM UTC

Cool links guys, I just discovered this site for some nice indie tunes along with some other stuff, all totally free of course http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Charts/

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

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Post by weaksauce » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:31 AM UTC

I have to throw a shout out to Tarlton, mum(there is a back tick over the u but I am too lazy to find the letter), and Sanchez is Driven By Demons. They have gotten me through some tough coding sessions and they are all close enough to instrumental without being instrumental to make it work. If you needed to classify it I guess it they would be post-rock.

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

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Post by yread » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:36 AM UTC

Hell Im here just a short time but this is at least 3rd discussion of this since I registered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219

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

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Post by caudicus » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:39 AM UTC

This is sort of un-related, but for fans of coding to ambient music (or anyone for that matter) - if you haven't already, check out "9 Beet Stretch" - http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony stretched out over a 24 hour period. I heard it first on the "Time" episode of Radio Lab (great show). It's a real trip to listen to.

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

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Post by manvsmachine » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:39 AM UTC

larrykubin wrote: post #3

Lately: Rock (Tool, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Rage, Muse) Post-Rock (Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Pelican, Mogwai) Hip-Hop (A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Outkast, Digable Planets, The Coup) The post-rock/instrumental stuff probably works the best since you aren't tempted to sing, and it helps to listen to something that is a little more repetitive.

very true about the post-rock (I listen to Mogwai while coding as well). I'd add movie soundtracks / scores to the list for the same reason. Still a huge fan of the Battlestar Galactica soundtracks, esp season 2, and pretty much anything done by John Murphy (28 Days Later, Miami Vice).

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

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Post by nuggien » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:40 AM UTC

vocal trance channel on http://www.di.fm Lots of other great channels on there too. Sometimes somafm.com as well.

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

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Post by netconnect » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:45 AM UTC

yread wrote: post #15

Hell Im here just a short time but this is at least 3rd discussion of this since I registered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219

Sorry man, I've only been here for one of those but I dont remember it. Guess we just like to talk about these kinds of things?

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

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Post by le_dominator » Tue, Aug 18, 2009, 6:46 AM UTC

terpua wrote: post #11

http://hypem.com

Let's be friends :D