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Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders
- amirf 14y agoCute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc. :)
- valceder 14y agoNice idea! Interesting if everyone thinks "happiness & zen coding" is coding in Ruby?! And if all agree that PHP coding is "Despair"
- shanelja 14y agoI disagree, I haven't had a single bad experience with PHP in years of use, maybe I'm just lucky or too close minded, but having used python, perl and ruby for programming too, I actually prefer PHP.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- CodeMage 14y agoExcept that happiness and despair haven't got much to do with the language. It's the work you do and the environment you're in that make you happy or unhappy.
- brettbender 14y agoHave you ever used PHP before?
- CodeMage 14y agoNo, I must be a one trick pony who has only ever used one language, on one platform, in one workplace and has no experience on which to base his claims. What sense would it make to post a comment based on personal experience, right?
- brettbender 14y agoSorry, didn't mean to get your knickers in a twist, I was only being tongue-in-cheek.
- danneu 14y agoExactly. The tools themselves are rarely the source of anguish. I'd MUCH rather write a language I don't enjoy in a clean, well-architected project than use my favorite language in a bandages-on-"quickfixes"-on-bandages project.
- zerostar07 14y agoYou don't want to start this
- benjlang 14y agoNice, great job!
- valceder 14y agoCheers! Glad you like it
- shmuelix 14y agohow geeks sounds.. i think this is pretty cool.. maybe you can also add the sound of bits moving around ;-)
- valceder 14y agohmmm... how would I make the sound of bits moving around... would probably end up sounding like rain!
- ConstantineXVI 14y agocat /dev/random > /dev/dsp Not necessarily the most pleasant sound. [Linux only AFAIK]
- philsnow 14y agoFor this exercise, /dev/urandom might be better; reading /dev/random will block after the system's entropy pool is exhausted, right?
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoI'd consider it unlikely most reasonably sane people would actually want to pump random data out their speakers for any significant amount of time.
- rprime 14y agoInteresting, I kinda liked it. But given I am a keyboard freak, the sound of an apple keyboard makes sad. Add a mechanical keyboard in there too, there's the real programming sound :). Anyhow, great job!
- creativityhurts 14y agoPretty nice but you should really get a mechanical keyboard, that's the real coding sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY
- valceder 14y agoAwesome! Thanks
- diggan 14y agoKind of off topic but where can I buy a Happy Hacking Keyboard outside the US?
- creativityhurts 14y agoFrom here http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhkbpro2 http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards... http://elitekeyboards.com/support.php#2 http://elitekeyboards.com/support.php#2
- diggan 14y agoThank you! But damn, that's expensive. Better find some used one...
- tinco 14y agoIt's also ridiculous, you don't have to spend more than 100$ for an excellent hacking keyboard, don't buy the brand, buy the feature. http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,fullsize&pid=fc500rcabn http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,fulls... or if you really need them to be weighted for god knows what reason: http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=topre_keyboards,realforce&pid=rf_se02c0 http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=topre_keyboar...
- sjm 14y ago
- alainbryden 14y agoBurst out laughing when I clicked "Angry dev". Nice.
- creativityhurts 14y agoAgree, "Angry dev coding" could easily be "Working with XML".
- shanelja 14y ago"Angry dev coding" is "Arguing on the internet"
- valceder 14y agoHa ha! very true
- devgutt 14y agoor CAPSLOCK on vim
- creativityhurts 14y agoIf you use vim you SHOULD remap Caps Lock to Control.
- munchor 14y agoIf you use a decent text editor (aka Emacs or Vim), XML will be no trouble to you, I'm sure :)
- hardik988 14y agoReally loved it ! I'm really intrigued as to how you got the sounds together ? Did you record them yourself ?
- valceder 14y agoThanks! Glad you loved it and,yes, recorderd right from Crossrider HQ with my iphone ;)
- ChrisArchitect 14y agothis is like a modern day audio boss button
- sealo 14y agoHi Neil from raining.fm angry dev ftw!
- windsurfer 14y agoJust FYI, your raining.fm page works fine on my mobile if I trick the site into thinking I'm a desktop (HTC myTouch running android 2.3.3)
- sealo 14y agoHi windsurfer, thanks for the heads up, we have found it works on some android devices but not others (it seems to like chrome browser on droid) . We didn't want to offer a crappy broken version to the masses, so we are working on native app versions for both IOS and Android, stay tuned :) P.s. new desktop version will go live by this weekend :)
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- valceder 14y agoCheers Neil! Really love raining.fm - was the inspiration for this :)
- JamesLeonis 14y agoAngry dev is definitely my favorite. It sounds like some of my late nights.
- thoughtpalette 14y agoI laughed. Great idea!
- jschuur 14y agoI feel like there's not a lot of gaps between typing, even for the Monday morning coding. Either that, or I'm a really slow coder.
- jedahan 14y agoMore hardcore : http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/503e2aac93368-realhackerkeyboardsounds.php http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/503e2aac93368-realhackerkey...
- brandoncapecci 14y agoDoes anyone feel like they work more productively when listening to people bash their keyboards or is this more of a novelty thing? Personally, I can understand the rain sounds, this - not so much.
- positr0n 14y agoI think the site was made as a joke :-)
- brandoncapecci 14y agowhoosh I guess I thought some people might enjoy the sound of other people at work? Rain sounds weren't exactly intuitive for me either living in Seattle. Thanks :)
- Juuumanji 14y agoi thought this was silly until i let it play for about 20 minutes. it's strangely calming.
- agumonkey 14y agoNext : Airplane engine cabin-muted samples ? (can be emulated with low pass filter on laptop fan, found that to be quite calming too, like thunderstorm noise)
- gavinlynch 14y agoWow. Funny idea! :) But honestly, I'm not sure if there is a less-soothing sound than someone cranking away at a keyboard. Takes me right out of my zone of concentration, and there is a reason I put on headphones :)
- wccrawford 14y agoActually, I found the sound to be comforting. I miss working in an office with a team on site. Of course, I still can't go hang over their cubicle and ask them a technical question, but I only expect so much of that site. ;)
- nedludd 14y agoThe guy I share a cube with has the loudest keyboard in history, or at least for me. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else. But it sets my teeth on edge. So much so that I had to dig out my old noise cancelling, over the ear things. Now I can't hear anything else, but hey! :-)
- nettasy 14y agoHa ha, my husband is a programmer I have a feeling that he's going to like this
- MartinodF 14y agoFYI, the link to raining.fm at the bottom of the page doesn't work :)
- akshayagarwal 14y agoSo I was sitting all alone in my large office at night, browsed Hacker News and as usual opened this in a new tab but did not really look at it becuase I was browsing some other article. Now suddenly I start hearing a slow coding sound coming out of nowhere, I looked around but there was none. The sounds still kept coming , I even went to look under the desks!! Thoughts of an office ghost started trembling in my mind but then I suddenly realised that those pesky sounds were originating from my Mac and I said W!!! Ghost inside my Mac! Holy Sh! With some courage I bothered to look around my tabs and then nailed on this monster. Great work guys! Would be hard to forget about those horrifying 10 mins!
- valceder 14y agoHa ha ha! Just glad you figured out it was from your computer and not some coder ghost haunting you!
- TheFunkyMonk 14y agoI love this. My office is really quiet, putting this on alongside some music with my headphones is actually making me more productive!
- valceder 14y agoMust try it with some music too! Glad you're enjoying it :)
- dfischer 14y agoThis is freaking hilarious. Angry DEV all the way.
- loceng 14y agoThey really need a Live Listener stat so you know who else you're coding with...
- valceder 14y agoNice one!