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This is similar to how my team operates. On my team, the PR author is ultimately responsible for their work. All review comments are considered suggestions. The Approve button is u…

Now I want a burrito.

If RoadPony can find a niche in the crowdfunding market, I think it could work. Give bands some benefits or features that existing crowdfunding platforms don’t, and they’ll use it.…

I’m not sure about the bounty idea, but I’ll tell you what does work if you want your favorite undiscovered band to play a show in your town: offer to book and promote the show for…

I played in some local bands for fun years ago and went on some self-funded tours. I also booked and promoted shows (mostly for my own bands). The way that we got most of our gigs …

I’m suspicious of any large transfer of wealth from an individual or organization to a politician, whether that’s through campaign donations or some other means. It seems strange n…

Is that form of corruption a systemic problem here in the U.S.? I don’t think that it is. On the other hand, campaign contributions are common, legal, and involve large sums of mon…

I’d bet that the dollar amounts involved where appointed officials corruptly use regulation to solicit bribes in the U.S. is orders of magnitude smaller than the amounts involved i…

In the states that I have lived, the voter information pamphlet lists who supports and opposes every initiative. Every time that a new regulation on the ballot would benefit the pu…

Yes, and my guess is that there is more money to be made off of deregulation than on regulation. Thus, more corruption related to the party that wants to deregulate.

I agree that more money probably means more backroom deals. This seems simple to me: One party wants to regulate, the other de-regulate. Which of those platforms attracts the most …

The power is checked by the voters, and every election Californians keep electing Democrats. It’s only sad to Republicans, and only because it’s not their party in power.

In my case, the recovery required physical therapy. My shoulders have also improved somewhat on their own over time. From what I’ve read, it’s not genetic. My shoulder injuries wer…

I am also recovering from a frozen shoulder, but thankfully it was not nearly as bad as the author. This is also my second time having it. Both times have required months of PT, mo…

We’ll have to do some research and analysis. When we compare alternatives, product support will be one factor. There might be some commercial Jenkins support offerings out there, w…

Switched from Jenkins to Bamboo Server about 5 years ago. The integrations with Bitbucket, Jira, and Slack have been really useful. My team has put a lot of time into getting the m…

The problem with security through obscurity is the false sense of security that it provides. This in itself can lead to vulnerabilities. Regarding data obfuscation, for example: - …

If refactoring didn’t introduce regressions, then that would be great to have someone constantly refactoring to improve the codebase. In my experience though, it often makes more w…

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As management is responsible for bad management decisions, so too is the programmer responsible for implementing bad decisions.

I have a feeling it’s fairly subjective, but good to read up on. I’ll definitely try pineapple next time (as recommended in the article).

I read it somewhere a long time ago... if I recall, it supposedly helps get vocal cords to the right tension and maybe gives them a slight coating.

A few of my own home recording tips: - Use a condenser microphone with a pop filter for vocals - Use 2 matched condenser mics for acoustic instruments, separated by twice the dista…

This is where it can be helpful to have some folks on your team whose primary focus is user satisfaction (and/or sales). They can help guide issue prioritization in a way that code…

The article notes that the Nature Conservancy has helped them purchase lands for the project. I’ve been a fan of that organization for a while, they do a lot of really great enviro…