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My current coding playlist is: * Moon OST - Clint Mansell * Donnie Darko OST - Mansell * Inception OST - Hans Zimmer * The Social Network OST - Reznor * Simple Things - Zero 7 * Melody AM - Royskopp * Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good)
Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good) benn's pale blue dot is a great ambient album to work to. http://bennjordan.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue-dot
If you are a big Starcraft player for example, playing the background music from Starcraft can create a sort of Pavlovian Response, telling your brain "You are sitting at a computer carrying out a difficult task which takes a good deal of focus and mental exertion. This activity is fun and rewarding, and it is urgent that you do it as well and as quickly as possible."
Give it a try.
tl;dr Soundtracks from RTS games
When this was posted 2 weeks ago, I tried to step up and do the hosting with Amazon's Cloudfront. 72 hours and 3TB later, I sadly acknowledged that I didn't have the checkbook size to properly meet the download needs. Since then, @datassette has moved hosting to Dreamhost and they're truly sticking by their unlimited bandwidth policy. So as much as we typically like to point out when DH is down or messes up, I think…
The usual solution to this problem, when you're short on cash and need to push out a lot of gigabytes to a lot of people, is to put up a torrent. They're not just for piracy! (Fun fact: if you host files on Amazon S3, it will also generate a torrent file and handle the seeding and tracking.)
Yes, both a magnet link and a direct link should be offered, and probably will be soon.
When this was posted 2 weeks ago, I tried to step up and do the hosting with Amazon's Cloudfront. 72 hours and 3TB later, I sadly acknowledged that I didn't have the checkbook size to properly meet the download needs. Since then, @datassette has moved hosting to Dreamhost and they're truly sticking by their unlimited bandwidth policy. So as much as we typically like to point out when DH is down or messes up, I think…
The usual solution to this problem, when you're short on cash and need to push out a lot of gigabytes to a lot of people, is to put up a torrent. They're not just for piracy! (Fun fact: if you host files on Amazon S3, it will also generate a torrent file and handle the seeding and tracking.)
My current coding playlist is: * Moon OST - Clint Mansell * Donnie Darko OST - Mansell * Inception OST - Hans Zimmer * The Social Network OST - Reznor * Simple Things - Zero 7 * Melody AM - Royskopp * Abroreal - The Flashbulb (a lot of his stuff is good)
Other OST picks: Tron (and Tron Reconfigured) and Nick Cave / Warren Ellis soundtracks - particularly The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Loscil: http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=loscil
If you've ever played Osmos on iOS, you've likely heard "Lucy Dub". It's track 2 on First Narrows.
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The usual solution to this problem, when you're short on cash and need to push out a lot of gigabytes to a lot of people, is to put up a torrent. They're not just for piracy! (Fun fact: if you host files on Amazon S3, it will also generate a torrent file and handle the seeding and tracking.)
I kept pushing that solution too, largely because I love the "here's another legal reason for torrent technology" proof that it gives, but it was important to datassette to be able to directly stream from the site and that isn't possible with a torrent. Yes, both a magnet link and a direct link should be offered, and probably will be soon.
It's called electronic music. Trance preferred.