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This submission is light on content, heavy on subjective music taste (and Amazon affiliate links). It's only tangentially related to programming (if at all) and
by cosgroveb 15y ago
This submission is light on content, heavy on subjective music taste (and Amazon affiliate links). It's only tangentially related to programming (if at all) and has nothing to do with startups.
I know someone is going to quote the guidelines which say "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" but let's be honest: this submission is pretty weak.
- JonnieCache 15y agoThe submission may be little more than amazon-whoring, but this little discussion about distraction we're having here is pretty good. Another interesting part of the second study was the finding that music was less distracting for those students involved in honors courses, and for the most competent it appeared to help them. This fits with the fact that the task was about learning java, and as such is not the best model of the average HN user's day. While we all maintain that "every day is a learning experience" and we're constantly taking on new skills, an 8 hour workday spent writing rails code is manifestly not the same as taking your first steps into Java at university.
- getsat 15y agoOP's only submissions are to articles on this domain, too. Undisclosed affiliate links are tacky, but he'll probably make a few hundred $$$ off of getting this story on the frontpage since anything you buy on Amazon in the next 24 hours he will get credited for. How much karma do you need to be able to downvote stories?