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What's playing in your headphones while you code?

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Ryan Norton • Edited

A mix of ambient, electronic and jazz. Disparition, explosions in the sky, Adam Young, Miles Davis and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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Jacob Tan 🤓
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Adnan Kičin

Mostly instrumentals because the lyrics can sometimes distract me and lead to a solo performance that no one needs or wants to hear.

Here are some of those:

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Eduardo Gómez Vásquez
  • Black Metal
  • Trash Metal
  • Folk Metal
  • Power Metal
  • Heavy Metal
  • Nu Metal
  • Symphonic Metal
  • Death Metal

There is another kind of music?

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Ben Sinclair

Pirate Metal?

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Vicus

Prog Metal. Otherwise you are missing Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Leprous, Haken. And what kind of life is that?

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Eduardo Gómez Vásquez

You're right!

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Luis Ventura

Almost anything from Beatles to Taylor Swift to Daft Punk to Rachmaninoff when writing boilerplate code or simple stuff, but I need total silence when writing complex algorithms or debugging, so I always carry a couple of rubber ear plugs from hardware stores.

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Fanny
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Chris Pahla

Jay Z 4:44

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Paul Frame

The Dark Knight’s soundtrack

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Ben Halpern

Oh that sounds great

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Aarøπ Dayalaπ