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Pretty nice but you should really get a mechanical keyboard, that's the real coding sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY

Kind of off topic but where can I buy a Happy Hacking Keyboard outside the US?

From here http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards...

http://elitekeyboards.com/support.php#2

Thank you! But damn, that's expensive. Better find some used one...

It's also ridiculous, you don't have to spend more than 100$ for an excellent hacking keyboard, don't buy the brand, buy the feature.

http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,fulls... or if you really need them to be weighted for god knows what reason: http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=topre_keyboar...

(Full disclosure: I have a Happy Hacking Pro 2. I also have multiple Filco Cherry MX keyboards).

The difference with HHKB is:

1) the Topre switches over standard Cherry switches; it's personal preference, but they are more expensive. In my opinion they feel a lot nicer for long sessions. Very satisfying to type on.

2) It's made in Japan — I believe Topre Realforce are too, but they're also expensive.

3) The layout/size is (fairly) unique, and very awesome. Not having to move from the home row to hit any key at all feels great.

Anyway when you amortize the cost over how long these keyboards (any of them) last, and how much you use them, the price difference isn't such a big deal.

Leopold is a great brand, and they were my top pick till they ran out of stock. Instead I bought a DAS with brown switches and haven't looked back. I highly recommend mechanical keyboards, they are very enjoyable to type on.

Awesome! Thanks

So I was sitting all alone in my large office at night, browsed Hacker News and as usual opened this in a new tab but did not really look at it becuase I was browsing some other article. Now suddenly I start hearing a slow coding sound coming out of nowhere, I looked around but there was none. The sounds still kept coming , I even went to look under the desks!! Thoughts of an office ghost started trembling in my mind but then I suddenly realised that those pesky sounds were originating from my Mac and I said W!!! Ghost inside my Mac! Holy Sh! With some courage I bothered to look around my tabs and then nailed on this monster. Great work guys! Would be hard to forget about those horrifying 10 mins!

Ha ha ha! Just glad you figured out it was from your computer and not some coder ghost haunting you!

Wow. Funny idea! :)

But honestly, I'm not sure if there is a less-soothing sound than someone cranking away at a keyboard. Takes me right out of my zone of concentration, and there is a reason I put on headphones :)

The guy I share a cube with has the loudest keyboard in history, or at least for me. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else. But it sets my teeth on edge.

So much so that I had to dig out my old noise cancelling, over the ear things. Now I can't hear anything else, but hey! :-)

Actually, I found the sound to be comforting. I miss working in an office with a team on site. Of course, I still can't go hang over their cubicle and ask them a technical question, but I only expect so much of that site. ;)

Interesting, I kinda liked it. But given I am a keyboard freak, the sound of an apple keyboard makes sad. Add a mechanical keyboard in there too, there's the real programming sound :).

Anyhow, great job!

Cheers!Happy you like it. I've totally got to get the sound of a mechanical keyboard :)

Great, I am looking forward to that!

Hi Neil from raining.fm angry dev ftw!

Cheers Neil! Really love raining.fm - was the inspiration for this :)

No worries at all mate, thanks for the props! We have rewritten a new version with some cool new requested functionality, just bug testing atm, planning to push live in few days ;) stay rainy and code on!

Awesome! looking forward to checking out the new version :)

Just FYI, your raining.fm page works fine on my mobile if I trick the site into thinking I'm a desktop (HTC myTouch running android 2.3.3)

Hi windsurfer, thanks for the heads up, we have found it works on some android devices but not others (it seems to like chrome browser on droid) . We didn't want to offer a crappy broken version to the masses, so we are working on native app versions for both IOS and Android, stay tuned :)

P.s. new desktop version will go live by this weekend :)

Angry dev is definitely my favorite. It sounds like some of my late nights.

It's missing some angry muttering!

Next : Airplane engine cabin-muted samples ? (can be emulated with low pass filter on laptop fan, found that to be quite calming too, like thunderstorm noise)

I feel like there's not a lot of gaps between typing, even for the Monday morning coding. Either that, or I'm a really slow coder.

i thought this was silly until i let it play for about 20 minutes. it's strangely calming.

Nice to hear :) I'm assuming it was on "Monday Morning Coding" ;)

Yep. I've had it running since.

Does anyone feel like they work more productively when listening to people bash their keyboards or is this more of a novelty thing? Personally, I can understand the rain sounds, this - not so much.

I think the site was made as a joke :-)

whoosh I guess I thought some people might enjoy the sound of other people at work? Rain sounds weren't exactly intuitive for me either living in Seattle. Thanks :)

More hardcore : http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/503e2aac93368-realhackerkey...

Cute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc. :)

Except that happiness and despair haven't got much to do with the language. It's the work you do and the environment you're in that make you happy or unhappy.

Exactly. The tools themselves are rarely the source of anguish.

I'd MUCH rather write a language I don't enjoy in a clean, well-architected project than use my favorite language in a bandages-on-"quickfixes"-on-bandages project.

Have you ever used PHP before?

No, I must be a one trick pony who has only ever used one language, on one platform, in one workplace and has no experience on which to base his claims. What sense would it make to post a comment based on personal experience, right?

Sorry, didn't mean to get your knickers in a twist, I was only being tongue-in-cheek.

Nice idea! Interesting if everyone thinks "happiness & zen coding" is coding in Ruby?! And if all agree that PHP coding is "Despair"

I disagree, I haven't had a single bad experience with PHP in years of use, maybe I'm just lucky or too close minded, but having used python, perl and ruby for programming too, I actually prefer PHP.

You don't want to start this

Burst out laughing when I clicked "Angry dev". Nice.

Agree, "Angry dev coding" could easily be "Working with XML".

"Angry dev coding" is "Arguing on the internet"

Ha ha! very true

If you use a decent text editor (aka Emacs or Vim), XML will be no trouble to you, I'm sure :)

or CAPSLOCK on vim

If you use vim you SHOULD remap Caps Lock to Control.

I love this.

My office is really quiet, putting this on alongside some music with my headphones is actually making me more productive!

Must try it with some music too! Glad you're enjoying it :)

this is like a modern day audio boss button

Really loved it !

I'm really intrigued as to how you got the sounds together ? Did you record them yourself ?

Thanks! Glad you loved it and,yes, recorderd right from Crossrider HQ with my iphone ;)

They really need a Live Listener stat so you know who else you're coding with...

Nice one!

FYI, the link to raining.fm at the bottom of the page doesn't work :)

Thanks for that - will fix it right away!

I came here to say that too.

The "Inspired by raining.fm" link, links back to coding.fm.

I laughed. Great idea!

This is freaking hilarious. Angry DEV all the way.

Nice, great job!

Cheers! Glad you like it

how geeks sounds.. i think this is pretty cool.. maybe you can also add the sound of bits moving around ;-)

    cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

Not necessarily the most pleasant sound. [Linux only AFAIK]

For this exercise, /dev/urandom might be better; reading /dev/random will block after the system's entropy pool is exhausted, right?

I'd consider it unlikely most reasonably sane people would actually want to pump random data out their speakers for any significant amount of time.

hmmm... how would I make the sound of bits moving around... would probably end up sounding like rain!

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