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Comment Correlation? (Score 1) 262

I agree this was poor and invasive on netflix's part, but how was "suit known as Doe v. Netflix " "outing a lesbian"? Like netflix released information of a bunch of gay movie rentals??? releasing private info is fail, I just don't see the correlation with the lesbian woman.

Comment Re:Programming without music? (Score 1) 1019

While I can accept that music would be less distracting that office chatter, I simply don't understand the concept that music is better than silence. I can work with music, but if I need to concentrate on something intensely, like a complex coding problem or making decisions based on a large amount of data, I need silence

This is interesting and I can relate..to an extent. I've done a lot of experimentation with selective attention (from listening to 4 or 6 audio streams -- a few ebooks, music, some recrodings, audio memos etc) simultaneously and moniotoring productivity and performance. No official conclusions, but general hunch is that when doing the more "routine stuff" background music makes things much smoother. I was in a bookstore perusing iphone programming, math, biochem, and atheism books (GREAT section they were all clumped together xD) and they had some weird jazz and then some french music on. I'd never be like "hhmm can I have that soundtrack?!" but for a moment of maybe 3-4 minutes when the music stopped, that once very rich and isnightful section felt really awkward and dead. Obviously for certain tasks, silence ftw, but for some things music is invaluable. Maybe it's when around other people, music feels better than dead silence . pregnant pauses. idk lol.

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Music While Programming? 1019

BubbaDoom writes "In our cubicle-ville, we have programmers intermixed with accounting, customer support and marketing. As programmers, it is our habit to put on our headphones and listen to our portable music players to drown out all of the noise from everyone else. The boss recently sent an email just to the programmers demanding that we do not use our music players at work because he thinks it distracts us from our jobs and causes us to make mistakes. Of course, we've explained to him that prattle from the other people is much, much more distracting, but he insists his policy is the right one. What is the Slashdot community's experience with music at work for programmers?"

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