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Mostly Zoom meetings. I don't get enough time to code anymore 
Hogan
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Ugh. So tough. I really thrive best when I'm creating. Do you have another creative outlet?
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Several, but not at work 
Hogan
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Only if I'm in VS writing code, which seems to only be about 40% of my time these days. I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting.
But when I code, I'm listening to prog (classic and new), 60s/70s rock, the occasional Celtic rock LP, a classical/choral work, new age/ambient, or my own works.
Mostly Pink Floyd, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, Zappa, Joe Walsh, Peter Gabriel, Frost, Wolfstone, Bach, Mozart, Eno, and hundreds of others.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Wow. I'm so impressed by this. Words while crafting in words! I have known folks who could study with rock, but I'm not among them  I do wonder though if the viking anthems would be okay - you know, the ones with foreign words.
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I can rarely understand the words when I even pay attention to them, so the language doesn't matter.  Can't say I've listened to many Viking anthems, though it sounds intriguing.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: I can't listen to music while researching or designing or in a Teams meeting
That got me wondering...how would that even work? If you're playing music on external speakers, your mic would pick it up, and make a mess for the other participants. I haven't tried this, but can you pipe music to your headphones that would not be broadcast to everybody else?
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I have my much of my favorite music on my phone, so I'd listen to that using earbuds. Plus I keep my laptop mic muted most of the time in Teams so people don't hear my dog going berserk at the UPS, FedEx and USPS trucks, or my wife chattering at me.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: prog (classic and new)
I just found 3 new prog albums I will be ordering today!
0: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World
1: Neil Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
2: Spock's Beard - Noise Floor
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Good selection.
I'm just now getting into prog metal, so I've got some catching up to do with Dream Theater. Although, being a keyboard player, watching Jordan Ruddess play makes me want to give it all up.
Haven't listened to Morse since he quit Spock's Beard, and haven't hardly any of their latest either.
A drummer friend of mine has been turning me onto some great new prog from The Pineapple Thief, Frost, and Lalu. There must be thousands of prog bands I've never heard of, much less listened to.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I've got over 10,000 songs on my PC. Shuffle for the win.
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Wow! How long did that take you to assemble? What's in it?
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It's taken decades to acquire my music library. It has just about everything except the twangy country & western and rap.
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Does your shuffle function stay within a genre?
If I allow a player to truly shuffle across my entire library, I might get Sinatra followed by some techno...that just...doesn't work.
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Nope. Right now I'm listening to Celtic Woman but I have no idea what's next. Song ended and it jumped to the Eagles Sad Cafe. Yesterday it went from the Carpenters to Jethro Tull at one point.
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My playlist in a nutshell, I love it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Your post got me wondering how many MP3s I have in my collection. Just checked - 15,759. 
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Currently, the din of my tinnitus. Usually though I'm streaming Grateful Dead shows when I code.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Amazing - words while coding, not the tinnitus which used to be among my greatest fears until I got it. Wind brings it on even if I'm not out in it. Mine is ignoreable though.
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Cpichols wrote: Mine is ignoreable though.
I'm jealous, mine can keep me up at night.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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When working, absolute silence, as it reduces distraction ...
In relaxing mode, low volume extreme metal like Meshuggah, Kataklysm etc.
BTW, I think that this an excellent question for our Straw Poll survey.
Cheers,
modified 29-Jan-22 12:44pm.
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If I'm coding, it's usually something without lyrics; a gaming OST or something. I use it to drown out conversations and sales calls. The Skyrim soundtrack is a go to if I don't have a specific craving.
I picked up Heroes of Might and Magic II over the weekend, which has led me to have the OST on repeat during working hours. Send help. 
modified 27-Jan-22 15:28pm.
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If I need to concentrate on something, it's total silence for me. I'm not good at ignoring noises.
When I was working in an office, I have used headphones playing white noise to drown out sounds - ringing phones, conversations, the guy in the next cubicle typing loudly on his keyboard...
If I'm working on repetitive, mind-numbing tasks that don't require much effort...that's when I might listen to music. I try to leave those tasks for Friday afternoons if that's something I have control over. As I'm getting older, I find I'm in a much better mood working on those tasks that can show immediate results, as opposed to working on the hard problems, even when finding solutions would provide a better sense of accomplishment.
If you wanted to know what I'm listening to...that'll be a post for another time.
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At home I like to put on sports like football, baseball or hockey.
At work it's usually Acoustic Alchemy or soft house.
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Enya helps with sailing away.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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