Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: When do you program and what do you listen to ? Date: 20 May 1998 00:55:44 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <3561da91.821128@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: indy16.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.5.1 UNIX) On Tue, 19 May 1998 19:21:57 GMT, Richard Cutting wrote: >I read a quote from Jeff Minter today ( he of the Llamasoft games ) >where he said that the best time to program the Atari Jaguar was late >at night with loud techno music playing on the CD. This got me >thinking, when is the best time to program the Yaroze and what do >people listen to when they are doing it ? Once upon a time it was late at night, but these days i find that i don't work so well after 12. maybe because i don't drink coffee any more. it generally takes me an hour or so to drop back into the fast programming mindset, so the answer now is, whenever i can get more than about 2 hours at a time, when i'm not falling asleep. As to music, generally goa or trance techno or gothic/industrial. Having a fairly constant beat is important. I guess programming's sort of like rowing in that sense. toby.