|
This is a seriously cool playlist. Having a good listen right now: Cheers::
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wicked, I'll have a good listen tomorrow 
|
|
|
|
|
Have had a good listen. This is some serious ambient stuff. I must admit that i like to throw in a couple of more uplifting happy tunes. Gotta pull back from the zone now and then. Brilliant cheers.
|
|
|
|
|
My problem (as an amateur drummer) is that anything with a beat I'm off and out of the coding zone.
|
|
|
|
|
I know what you mean. Not that i'm a drummer !!
|
|
|
|
|
I have long used the channel dreamscapes on sky fm. Quite nice as well, until they started to flood publicity and limit to 30 mins idle in the free version.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
It can be any kind of music from classical to death metal, depending on my mood, but it's mostly progressive rock (Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, etc.)
|
|
|
|
|
Nice to see another progger at CP! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
|
|
|
|
|
I love Porcupine Tree......and not forgetting Rush 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
|
|
|
|
|
It creates in my subconscious a good feeling based on the sensations that I had when playing that good old game many years ago.
|
|
|
|
|
I used to listen to classical, but now I am listening to Game of Thrones soundtracks Season 1-5.
|
|
|
|
|
Middle East / Eastern Europe Ethnic music.
|
|
|
|
|
Carl Franklin (of DotNetRocks fame) has produced a series of tracks designed specifically to "get you in the zone" for coding. Originally started as a Kickstarter project there are now a number of styles to choose from and they work well in my experience.
|
|
|
|
|
I don't listen to only one type of music during coding. It generally depends on what I'm in the mood for as to what I listen to...sometimes metal or rock, sometimes EDM, sometimes nothing, etc.
|
|
|
|
|
I found that when I listen to music, it is easy to get distracted and listen to music instead of working. It is hard to do 2 things at the same time. If one listen music he likes, then he might at some point concentrate only on the music. And I don't want to listen to music I don't like.
Philippe Mori
|
|
|
|
|
Philippe Mori wrote: It is hard to do 2 things at the same time
I suggest it's time to upgrade to a processor with multi-tasking capabilities.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Well, the point is, to my experience: If you really listen to the music, you cannot fully concentrate on the problem at hand (whatever that is). On the other hand, when you're working on a problem and you've got music on, you don't really listen to it. It's more like there is something running in the background. And that's actually multi-tasking - look at it as two different processes, one is coding, the other listening to the music, and they switch context from time to time, while coding has (should have) a higher priority. Problem is: it's always time sharing, real multitasking would require a second brain, because you're only single-core by nature.
|
|
|
|
|
FIorian Schneidereit wrote: because you're only single-core by nature
Speak for yourself!
FIorian Schneidereit wrote: while coding has (should have) a higher priority.
No reason to be so judgmental! Or, put another way, what are you doing that's really so important, anyway?
Rainy day . . . dream away . . . let the sun . . . take a holiday.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
W∴ Balboos wrote: Speak for yourself!
You mean you've got more than one discrete brain in your head? Now I'm curious...
W∴ Balboos wrote: No reason to be so judgmental! Or, put another way, what are you doing that's really so important, anyway?
Shhh... no one needs to know that my coding thread is running on idle priority most of the time.  But that's mainly because I downgraded coding and all things IT to a hobby, it's a long story but there are more important things in my life now, for example, living. I mean, that's why I claim you cannot really listen to music while doing something else, because if you really want to enjoy it, you have to listen to it actively without distraction and not degrading it to something that just plays in the back. That's why I usually don't listen to music while doing some coding stuff these days, and if I do, it's just some classical or "atmospherical" stuff, works of Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Sigur Rós, some Schubert etc. because of it's subliminal soothing influence. No lyrics because they are too distracting in this situation.
|
|
|
|
|
My first ace-in-the-hole is that I started programming for fun - an now someone pays me to do it. Already off to a good start.
Ahhhh. But the Music!
Conceive of it differently. Like a comfortable chair whilst you work. The music surrounds me - envelopes me - almost as though I I'm riding it to do the coding. Good Blues. Good Classical. A good Klezmer jam. More my private and better world. At least for a while.
As for 'more important things' - I will, now and then, ask someone how much they'd charge to lose a day of their life: not at the end, mind you, but right now - a premium day. What's it worth and how many would they like to sell. When you realize it's priceless you do what I've been fortunate enough to be able to do: whatever I want.* So I'm not wealthy - but I play for a living. And before that, my childhood dream came true: I became a for-real chemist and did things that actually got attention of my peers.
You're on the right track - but beware you don't overreact. Take charge and, euphemistically, at least, you can have it all.
* You can do whatever you want if you're willing to accept the consequences.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
I agree that if you listen to music you can not truly concentrate on the problem, and I find myself tuning out the music when I working out a complex issue. However, I choose my music without words so that I don't get caught spending processing power on the lyrics. However, I choose music with a beat that is fast paced and aligned to my typing speed. I find it easier to code and put down my thoughts when the background is not other people talking or the phone ringing, and instead a steady beat that my hands fall into sync with.
I also wear full ear headphones with active noise cancel to break out of all the background sounds.
|
|
|
|
|
Or listen conditionally. E.g.
if(music = food-of-love) playon();
else getbacktowork();
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
|
|
|
|
|
Herbie Mountjoy wrote: if(music = food-of-love) playon();
else getbacktoworkon();
FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
For me music has the opposite effect. It help me focus by drowning out everything and everyone else.
And in my world nothing moves without the music.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
