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Today's strangest press release...

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 03:09pm on 20/02/2006 under , ,
...came from Microsoft's UK developer tools team, with the heading "Music to code to".
The survey of more than 100 developers revealed that rock is the preferred music to code by for professional developers of all ages. Those surveyed were also keen chart watchers with the votes for top band going to four big hitters of 2005 - in first place Chris Martin's band 'Coldplay', followed by U2, third most popular were Manchester boys 'Oasis' and in forth position, Stereophonics.

Of the developers surveyed more than 29% claim that rap or hip hop was the most off-putting music to code by. The other genres that developers were least likely to listen to whilst working were country music (12 %), ambient music (9%) and opera (8%).
An odd selection. Me, I code and write best to both ambient and trance. So thank goodness for the nice folk at Platipus records (where Art of Trance have started recording again).

HMV has a "Music to code to" radio station on its web site. So, if you really need wall to wall Coldplay...
Mood:: 'amused' amused
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posted by [identity profile] jarel.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 20/02/2006
Nobody needs wall to wall Coldplay.
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posted by [identity profile] spride.livejournal.com at 04:00pm on 20/02/2006
Loutish hooligan racket. I code and write to baroque music, and it produces a clearly superior result :-)
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posted by [identity profile] megadog.livejournal.com at 04:04pm on 20/02/2006
In The Other Place™ when these discussions have arisen it's been conjectured that obscure Nordic death/thrash-metal bands make good debugging-music. I would suggest that the works of Diamanda Galás also have a place, probably while dealing with Visual BASIC.
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 04:08pm on 20/02/2006
Today has been a mixture of U2, Laibach and Talvin Singh. I find that pretty much anything that flows works, which would explain why hip-hop doesn't.
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posted by [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 20/02/2006
Eeeugh!!!
That explains A LOT about Microsoft software!!!
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 05:33pm on 20/02/2006
What, that 29% of its programming staff are young, suburban white guys with little musical taste?

I'll have you know that the one guy I know who's working there now listens to classical piano. No words, not too many instruments.
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posted by [identity profile] ivory-goddess.livejournal.com at 07:49pm on 20/02/2006
Coldplay are 'rock'? On what planet?
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posted by [identity profile] quercus.livejournal.com at 09:41pm on 20/02/2006
Depends where I'm working. At F*t*r* P*bl*sh*ng it was back-to-back Nirvana, Jesus & Mary Chain and Dead Kennedys, because they were the only things loud enough to keep the bogons out of my head.

I bet people who listen to Coldplay are writing PHP. Probably the "Music for Bedwetters" album.
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posted by [identity profile] therealdrhyde.livejournal.com at 09:09pm on 23/02/2006
This week, I are mostly coding to Bluegrass!
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