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I think you underestimate the industriousness of someone who really intends on committing tabs.

Important point here: kind and nice are not synonymous. It's easy to conflate kindness with niceness, and the OP (from what I can infer) is advocating the latter, not the former. K…

"lack of experience is generally pretty opaque to the people who lack it" Agree! this is a succinct description of a eng management problem. However, it can be mitigated by hiring …

I hear this much more often from the less-experienced programmers than I do from the seasoned, experienced ones. Once in a while, and usually in a very large shop, I hear it from a…

Or, much harder to beat writer's block when there's a large audience waiting for more work. If the grip of "10,000 people are expecting X from me..." freezes you, you're blocked. I…

We have 30 days of time for NaNoWriMo. That's a lot of time! Can get a lot done in that amount of time, or get nothing done, depending on how the time is occupied.

"...disregard for protocol" is not illegal activity. Any indictments, for example? Anything to back up the claim of illegal activity that could lead to a conviction? Again, outside…

Can anyone provide any evidence of confirmed illegal activity from a source other than wikileaks? E.g., results of any official investigation, etc.

About discovery: These days, the barrier to entry for discovery is lower than it's ever been. If you get your music on all of the various internet music services and some of the in…

I disagree. The ones I listen to do just that: not only flyover country, but Canada, Australia, UK, Italy and all over the rest of Europe. And the facebook groups for the genres I …

Sure there is. Join the communities that support the genre(s) of music you enjoy. Listen to the various internet radio programs that feature the music you enjoy -- those curators w…

also, best way for you and for the band: contact them directly for their music. It's legal, and I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

They do think about your country, and all of the non-US/CA/UK territories. But licensing is complicated, difficult to manage, and is frankly a mess. So it's often not worth it to l…

I agree, though as an aside I think this takes the conversation in a new direction. Ad-supported FM radio probably did more to encourage, or at least aculturate, people to treat th…

Amen.

Maybe we can say that they love musicians, but love business even more? Sort of like the way many CEOs in S.V./S.F. love software developers but love business even more.

"Free" is the price the majority of users on Spotify (and elsewhere) think is right. In general, consumers have learned that "music should be free!". The fee that Spotify asks for …

The recording industry LOVES musicians. But the musicians they love most of all are the musicians who don't know how to negotiate.

Those genres won't be killed-off, they'll be driven underground and further into the background from the pop genres that are much more easily monetizable. Where jazz and classical …

She talks about risk/reward and acknowledging the benefit new tech can bring to an organization. Minimizing risk doesn't mean no risk. High risk regardless of reward should not be …

CEO: "Team, we have to pull together on this one and I need all of you to work through the weekend to get this feature out the door before open of business Monday morning. I apprec…

Volunteering is one thing, and very cool to do to take some of the stress off of people with children. But asking an employee is quite another (IMO). It's a form of soft discrimina…

So many... so many. me: (up all night fixing bugs in production due to technical debt and mistakes from overworked and tired devs. Sleep from 5am to 9am, show up to office at 10am)…

Here's one (not solely experienced in startups, however): manager: "Since you're single, can you work through the holidays and cover the systems/push this feature/go the extra mile…