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Re: Music for Programming

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Post by ExtremisAndy »

silisili wrote: post #54

I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

I have the exact same problem. Wow, I could have written almost the same post about myself (including the part about the panicking wife!) Thank you for the music suggestions. One thing I find a bit strange is that the music of Liquid Mind both helps me to sleep AND helps me to code. I find it odd that sleep-inducing music also helps my easily distracted brain to focus. But there is no doubt I have written some of my best code and have achieved a greater level of focus while listening to Liquid Mind playing (softly) in the background.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by xamde »

silisili wrote: post #246
lkxijlewlf wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. I do all the cooking for our family because I'm pretty good at it. A few things that help me. First is mise en place. I read through the recipe and lay out all the ingredients and prep them (dice, chop, measure, etc). The next thing is I read through the recipe several ti…

Thanks! Yeah, my wife keeps trying to drill this into my head as well and even goes as far as to ask what I'm making and help prepare stuff this way as well. It -does- help a lot, but I still find myself losing track of something. For example, I'll put bread in the oven and move to cooking sausage, then eggs, then remember I had (now black) bread in the oven I needed to remove!

I set my self timers on my smart phone or Google Assistant device. Just like you do in JavaScript.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by Cognitron »

silisili wrote: post #54

I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

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Re: Music for Programming

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Post by finfinfin »

nicoco wrote: post #64
silisili wrote: post #54

I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

I cannot listen to music whenever I do anything else than a braindead repetitive chore. I've always thought that the fact that I am a musician is related; I think I cannot help but try and analyze the music I listen to. However, I enjoy playing 'strategic', puzzle-like videogames and the soundtrack usually is not a problem for me, although I rarely enjoy listening to it. Are the videogames I play braindead repetitive…

Same for me. As a sound engineer turned programmer I can not listen to any music as background. My mind instantly jumps into analyzing every sound.

Regarding playing games - I think it’s a completely different experience from working. Music + visuals (videos, psychedelic trips, etc) or music + exploration (games, hiking, etc) is a great combination because the elements enhance each other to make the total experience even more rich and absorbing. Which is, perhaps, not the right state for programming.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by gwbas1c »

prionassembly wrote: post #176
gwbas1c wrote: post #175

Reminds me of Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts. I really enjoyed listening to it at work, and one day I tried listening to it while driving... I just couldn't.

Is Ghosts the one that has "Corona Radiata"? There's two pieces of music I can't. One is Tchaikovsky's Cappricio Italiano, the other is "Corona Radiata". I'll break down sobbing and eventually wailing and I don't frakking have a clue why.

It wasn't that. Ghosts isn't entertaining enough for driving.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by jknutson »

silisili wrote: post #54

I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

I wholeheartedly agree. When I was learning to program, I couldn’t listen to music at all, any kind— I found that it disrupted my thought process and interrupted my train of thought. Many years later, I find now that when I’m writing code that I know how to write, and am just dealing with the implementation, listening to EDM keeps me “in the zone” quite well.

My coworkers find it endlessly amusing to tease me for listening to bass music, or as they call it “trash compactors having sex” while writing code. I admit that it’s odd, specifically the intensity of the music I’ll listen to while writing stuff as mundane as a login panel, but it works very well in regards to keeping me focused and on task.

To this day, though, any music with any lyrics at all is a no-go. I can’t tune out the words, at all. Luckily, EDM seldom has lyrics to speak of in the first place, so I that problem is solved quite cleanly for me. It is quaint, however, when I take my headphones off at the office to greet someone walking in / say hello and I realize how bizarre the sounds coming from my headphones are in the context of my brightly lit office.

I hope that I give off a vibe closer to Christian Bale as Michael Burry from The Big Short, but I doubt it.

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