First off tasty beer, and coffee both improve my coding skills, and my quality of life. As for music, you may not like it, but for those of us who do... does it ever make life great.
As a total aside, I can't imagine exercising without music, it'd be like some form of torture.
I had a similar argument with my business partner the other day. When it comes down to it, you can only really comment on the work flow you enjoy.
He requires total radio silence to be productive, doesn't like IM, music, anything. Where as I love having conversations going while I am coding, gives me something to think about in the front of my mind, while particularly tricky problems get my idle thread. And often when I am not focusing on why I can't solve something, it will come to me.
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First off tasty beer, and coffee both improve my coding skills, and my quality of life. As for music, you may not like it, but for those of us who do... does it ever make life great.
As a total aside, I can't imagine exercising without music, it'd be like some form of torture.
I had a similar argument with my business partner the other day. When it comes down to it, you can only really comment on the work flow you enjoy.
He requires total radio silence to be productive, doesn't like IM, music, anything. Where as I love having conversations going while I am coding, gives me something to think about in the front of my mind, while particularly tricky problems get my idle thread. And often when I am not focusing on why I can't solve something, it will come to me.
Just my 0.02.