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Ask HN: What do you listen to when coding?
I'm also a proud N00b learning RoR (via awesome tutorial http://railstutorial.org/book#top)
Need some badass music to code to. Any suggestions, i.e. bands, pandora stations, etc?
- lani 16y agomoby. plus there's this huge thread on reddit...
- colonelxc 16y agoThe key thing for me is something that I know well, so I can tune it out. I still enjoy the music, but once I'm working hard it just becomes white noise.
- mhd 16y agoYup, that works for me, too. Another important factor: Not too many pauses, or I'll catch myself waiting for the music to continue. That rules out a lot of classical music and "serious" prog rock for me. In the end, it's a lot of middle-of-the-road metal for me, or light prog. Pandora/last.fm stations for Iron Maiden or the Alan Parsons Project work pretty well.
- chrisclark1729 16y agoTruth. As much as I love hip-hop, it's not great coding music because there are too many words which draw your focus away.
- ayb 16y agoDepending on my mood I listen to hip-hop when I code. I've tried various genres but for some reason hip-hop is working the best for me right now. I will either listen to just one song on auto repeat or a tiny playlist of < 5 songs on shuffle/repeat. Too many songs and I find that I get distracted when the songs change. At times I also listen to a "white noise" CD called Holosync that is theoretically supposed to help improve neural connections. I like it just because it is noise and not distracting, but I have no evidence to show that it helps me code or is actually improving my brain function. I've had multiple days where I made fantastic progress while listening to the Notorious BIG's "Hypnotize" on continuous loop for 12+ hours straight. :-)
- what 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
- siruva07 16y agothanks!
- shaunxcode 16y agoRight now: kill Holiday.
- mishmash 16y agoUsually listen to one of the SomaFM stations, but listening to one of the Through the Wormhole episodes ATM.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- thereddestruby 16y agoI don't listen to anything when coding. I'm not smart enough to think of more than one thing at a time.
- lchengify 16y ago1. http://www.pandora.com http://www.pandora.com 2. Create a station for "Paul Oakenfold" 3. Hit Play 4. Code like a beast
- jgavris 16y agosometimes I listen to etn.fm bbc's radio one is quite good as well
- xulescu 16y agoI'm listening to the rain. I code better when it rains outside.
- pstinnett 16y agoanything from www.ghostly.com
- fjabre 16y agoSoundtracks - Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, Howard Shore, James Horner etc.. I tend to find them motivational for things like coding.. especially when I'm coding for my own startup.
- epyck 16y agoBoards of Canada Rusko / dubstep deadmau5