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?
Need some badass music to code to. Any suggestions, i.e. bands, pandora stations, etc?
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.
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. :-)
bbc's radio one is quite good as well