Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:07:20 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: bright@rush.net, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905211505530.5118-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <199905212147.OAA04190@usr07.primenet.com>
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I need music to code by... makes me work good. I don't usually listen to the phone, or pay attention to distractions. I like some nice background music to focus my thoughts. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Fri, 21 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Sorry, but I just don't get this whole thread; how can anyone code > at their best while listening to music? The idea that my phone > might ring or that someone might show up and demand my attention > is enough that I can't get to my deepest level of concentration > due to anticipating the mere possibility of interruption. My best > work is always achieved at home or in an office with the door closed. > > Is it just that other people don't concentrate very deeply when > coding, or is it that they just don't code very deeply? > > All of the best coders I have known throughout my career go into > semi-autistic funks -- pacing, rocking backward and forward in their > chairs, etc. -- while producing their best code. > > Bill Gates is reputed to rock back and forth in his chair like > Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" when he is concentrating deeply upon > some subject (coding, taking money from little old ladies, whatever). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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