I recently ran across a reference to programming as a sedate and quiet activity. Sedate, I'll grant them ... unless it's full body contact programming
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It makes sense in a strange way. I study to the Violent Femmes and Elvis Costello. Honestly, Enya just kind of gets on my nerves. I get into a deep meditative state while working out, upbeat tempos blasting through the mp3 player. The motion is repetitive enough that my brain goes elsewhere and the sounds and movements find of fade into the background. Not quite the same thing but similar...
Hmm, I know a lot of people like to program to techno; myself I do tend to go for the quiet stuff. Gregorian chant or Russian Orthodox choir music in particular.
Programming trance is a pretty well-known phenomenon though; I've heard it called 'the Zone' by a number of people, and heard a number of programmers complain about how hard it is to get back into it when interrupted by a phonecall or someone coming in to ask a question or whatever. :)
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I like to dance to rythmic music which is sorta transelike for me, but I couldn't program anyway LOL.
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Programming trance is a pretty well-known phenomenon though; I've heard it called 'the Zone' by a number of people, and heard a number of programmers complain about how hard it is to get back into it when interrupted by a phonecall or someone coming in to ask a question or whatever. :)
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Typical exchange ...
End user: "Hey, how long is it going to take you to finish those modifications to our database application?"
Unexpressed: "Probably a Hell of a lot longer if you keep interupting me like this ..."
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