• Re: Music while in a coding session...

    From John McCue@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Tue Jul 16 00:53:08 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    followups trimmed to comp.lang.c

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    This is OT, usually I would ignore, but :)

    I have never done that over the many decades I have
    been a programmer. I would suggest you do no more then
    say 12 hours straight. Mistakes will happen plus, this
    will affect your health.

    Just a friendly warning.

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 16 05:38:03 2024
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    Klaus Schulze - Timewind (1975) HQ
    https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=8tV5Q9WlIZ8

    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Tue Jul 16 13:50:04 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote at 23:47 this Monday (GMT):
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)


    I don't do coding sprees usually, but I just shuffle my collection of
    game OSTs or use an internet radio stream.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Pierre@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Tue Jul 16 14:18:30 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code) listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre. The music was recorded to cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus.
    To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life."

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  • From red floyd@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Tue Jul 16 13:49:44 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    On 7/16/2024 1:34 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 7/16/2024 11:58 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 7/16/2024 1:56 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 7/15/2024 6:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a
    30 hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening
    to this old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's
    during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I have the local FM 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s rock radio station on
    barely high enough to hear it.  Just a little background noise.  Been
    using that while programming since 1986.

    That's strange because I learned BASIC in the early 80's listening to
    the same type of music! Soft 80's rock, ect... My Dad used to listen to
    this during they day from time to time on a rather lowish volume. I
    would be there learning how to program in BASIC. I had LOGO and PILOT as well... Born in 1977, so I was pretty young. 6-7 years old, iirc.


    ZZ Top used to be my go-to. Had that nice driving beat.

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  • From Richard@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 16 22:31:23 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Pierre <n@n.net> spake the secret code <iaqcnRu_7KCrHAv7nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> thusly:

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code) >listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre.

    Les Concerts en Chine
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  • From Pierre@21:1/5 to Richard on Wed Jul 17 13:41:51 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    In comp.lang.c Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Pierre <n@n.net> spake the secret code <iaqcnRu_7KCrHAv7nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> thusly:

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code)
    listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre.

    Les Concerts en Chine

    Awesome album, especially "Arpegiateur" https://youtu.be/WDJtB7ZIJf8

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  • From Pierre@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Wed Jul 17 13:56:21 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/2024 7:18 AM, Pierre wrote:
    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code)
    listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre.

    I stared with BASIC as well, on my Atari. Then I got my hands on an
    Apple IIGS, and it had that light weight assembler built in. I started learning bits and pieces of assembly language, and where to poke and
    peek wrt BASIC. fun times! There is a fun emulator here wrt AppleSoft Basic:

    https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic


    The music was recorded to
    cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through
    my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to
    TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac >> files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus.
    To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life."

    Nice! This sounds great, Tangerine Dream - Best of:

    https://youtu.be/oxYjMVLrHRM

    Nice.

    You will often find me "3 AM At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee" https://youtu.be/kABwZLlTEIk

    or engaging in some "Risky Business"
    https://youtu.be/sBhB9gAM1J4

    State Azure cover
    https://youtu.be/ZRSNy8DcIDk

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  • From Pierre@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Wed Jul 17 14:01:52 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 7/16/2024 7:18 AM, Pierre wrote:
    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code)
    listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre. The music was recorded to
    cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through
    my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to
    TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac >> files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus.
    To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life."

    A good friend way back then, 80's, with the first name of Chris,
    strange, well, his Dad must of worked for Apple or something. He had a
    lot of of Apple computers. Mac's, Apple ii's, ect... A library of games, ect... Programming at his house was fun. His Dad was into classical
    music, not really 80's soft rock. He would play it loud, not light. And
    would sometimes watch me code. Wow. Hid Dad used to love playing this:

    Fwiw, all of the visuals in here are from my C++ code:

    (Moonlight Sonata)
    https://youtu.be/DSiWvF5QOiI

    (Ride of the Valkyries)
    https://youtu.be/QFPSYsYUKBA

    I worked hard on those. Some hours on and end until everything was right.

    Awesome fractal effects.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Wed Jul 17 15:10:03 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote at 18:56 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 7/15/2024 6:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    I have the local FM 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s rock radio station on barely
    high enough to hear it. Just a little background noise. Been using
    that while programming since 1986.

    Lynn


    I have a little bedside radio tuned to the local indie station, but i
    don't usually use it for coding music.
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  • From red floyd@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Wed Jul 17 11:51:45 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    On 7/16/2024 8:55 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Heavy Metal

    https://youtu.be/l6JgTQicjIk

    STERNN!!!!!!

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  • From red floyd@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Wed Jul 17 18:55:26 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    On 7/17/2024 1:28 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 7/17/2024 11:51 AM, red floyd wrote:
    On 7/16/2024 8:55 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    Heavy Metal

    https://youtu.be/l6JgTQicjIk

    STERNN!!!!!!


    Big time! The trial for that guy and the escape was pretty cool. Still
    love that movie.

    Wrt some music, for some reason I am thinking about setting one of my
    Fractal Field Dancer experiments to the following song:

    (Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance (Official Music Video)):

    https://youtu.be/eud5AurOxm0?list=RDMMFE-hBbBBGBs

    Reading this makes me think of older music.



    Good song. Also, the soundtrack to Heavy Metal is one of the best ever.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?=@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Sun Aug 4 22:42:24 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    On 16.07.24 01:47, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    My understanding is that listening to music uses the same parts of the
    brain that are needed for logical thinking, so I don't do that.

    Josef

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  • From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to josef@invalid.invalid on Sun Aug 4 21:27:37 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    =?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?= <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:
    My understanding is that listening to music uses the same parts of the
    brain that are needed for logical thinking, so I don't do that.

    When I was 14, I used to jam out to music while tackling my homework.
    Back then, I guess I didn't think it was too distracting, or maybe I
    just didn't care!

    Oh man! Now you all know my secret (I'm older than 14)! From now
    on, I'll read all my posts twice before hitting send! Or maybe I
    should just stop posting on Usenet while bumping tunes . . .

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  • From Joe Pfeiffer@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Sun Aug 4 21:29:47 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:

    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a
    30 hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to
    this old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's
    during code adventures for sure:

    Reminds of when I was vice chair of the NMSU faculty senate. The last
    meeting of the semester, the chair (for reasons known only to her)
    decided to share how she went about grading final exams. She said she
    had her cat sit in her lap, put on some Mozart, and had a cup of
    tea. Then she asked me what I did. I said my approach was similar, but
    it was a golden retriever, the Grateful Dead, and rum.

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Mon Aug 12 08:07:04 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    Chris M. Thomasson wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

    On 8/4/2024 8:29 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
    "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:

    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a
    30 hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to
    this old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's
    during code adventures for sure:

    Reminds of when I was vice chair of the NMSU faculty senate. The last
    meeting of the semester, the chair (for reasons known only to her)
    decided to share how she went about grading final exams. She said she
    had her cat sit in her lap, put on some Mozart, and had a cup of
    tea. Then she asked me what I did. I said my approach was similar, but
    it was a golden retriever, the Grateful Dead, and rum.

    :^D

    Her cat... Was it named NAND?

    NAND Cat [original]

    https://youtu.be/kdCJunw_Jgg

    How long can you listen to this before jumping right off a bridge? lol. ;^)

    It beats "Badger badger badger..."

    I generally have one of the SomaFM channels playing while I code.

    --
    I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
    than half of you half as well as you deserve.
    -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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  • From fir@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Mon Aug 19 17:54:56 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    i not especially listen tu music when i code (or coded is i like mostly
    dropped coding) - i usually used usenet, chat/irc, more often watched tv
    than watchied youtube in backround (also)

    as to music in few recent yers what i was more into listening was
    lil xan.. starcrawler.. a bit of kenny mason... this year i listened
    speultura roots more than 5 times (probably 10 which is good score as to
    full album)..recently listened polish hiphop gut 'arab'
    back in times i got a phase when i liked to listen nicki minaj
    (but now im so old i feel like zombie at least partially)

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Tue Aug 27 15:30:04 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote at 01:57 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On 7/15/2024 4:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
    adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    Ever play this game?

    (Final Fantasy II SNES Music 10 Cave Theme):

    https://youtu.be/W2mIoOyQihE?list=PLAIBzNpndb3VgKXvAfrtEgfVD64uYjame


    Never played it, but the music sounds cool.
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  • From John Forkosh@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Thu Sep 26 01:02:59 2024
    XPost: comp.lang.c++

    In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
    hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
    old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code adventures for sure:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE

    Just wondering... :^)

    There's one and only one valid answer.
    Pay particular attention to the very first two words:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZClBsDpp-4
    --
    John Forkosh

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