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If you subscribe to the philosophy that every line of code is a liability, which I do, this really hits home.

#awesomesauce

You're blowing my mind here. Really good stuff. What I think is really cool is that all this stuff is coming. There are a lot of stakeholders deeply invested in seeing these ideas …

Thanks for the kind thoughts! I agree, the whole concept of a cloud-based music library is very new. Forget music, the concept of the cloud is new! I'm looking forward to a holiday…

Selecting music to play at any given moment is entirely human. Play Strength was not intended to make music selection automatic. I think humans can make better decisions with data.…

All told, I think rating songs in your library is a really personal thing. @JimEngland, you use stars purely as an organizational tool, which is slick. It's cool that the iTunes in…

I need something more binary. Deciding between three and four stars seems totally arbitrary.

Well thanks for the insights. I'll keep triggers in mind when I come across a problem like this in the future.

Thanks for sharing. I agree with @bunkat here (though I didn't read the whole page). I find the language around analytics apps (including big boys like Mixpanel) to be generally va…

That's slick.

I pinged the guys over at RedisToGo to get you some more clarity on the pricing. Speaking for ourselves, we've historically preferred to have someone else manage our infrastructure…

To be fair, we may have over-engineered this solution. I've been doing some work with compound indexes with Mongo and they seem to be performing really well. Maybe I'll have to wri…

We definitely could have done this in Postgres. Our API is a Rails project and though we do a lot of work that's "off the rails," so to speak, we do try to follow a convention wher…