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Friday April 23, 2004
01:14 AM
Sounds to Pair Program by
While pair programming the other day, I noticed that I was getting distracted and jumpy. It took a few minutes to notice why.
My teamate's PC has an old disk drive in it. When the drive seeks, which it did only periodically since we were doing most of our work ssh'd into another box, the drive makes a particular "chu-chunk" sound that is nearly identical to the "someone within earshot has just acquired a big-assed weapon and it's time to run like hell unless you want to die" sound from Quake II. I haven't played Quake in several years, but apparently some of the game's sounds still trigger a twitch reaction.
It's hard to concentrate on code when you're about to get fragged.
Chu-chunk.
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The place I used to work had just installed motion-activated sensors to unlock the doors from the inside.
When you walked down the hall past the exits, you'd hear multiple click-click noises reminiscent of sound made when a sniper rifle was readied in Quake I (the One True Quake).
We would, from time to time, enjoy a little bit of "tension relief" (i.e., fragging our brains out) in the evening after work. I clearly recall walking down the hall to get a sode with another gamer after a particular