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Ah, Push it. The Push Music Behind 19 Startups. (news.me)
62 points by jrlevine on March 13, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 24 comments


I have always refused to participate in a language war, but I never said anything about a music war. All these songs do is push me to the medicine cabinet for some Excedrin. My choices:

When I'm not quite in the zone and need to get there quickly: Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0

When I'm 300 lines of code short of a breakpoint and I know I'll be here for a while: Depeche Mode, "Enjoy the Silence", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo

When I've already figured out exactly how it's supposed to work and I'm just slamming code: Romantics, "What I Like About You", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHKjDKY_O8

For debugging (which can be a lot like sex): Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn4i8bAfnMY

And finally, for regression testing, when it suddenly occurs to me that I really am changing the world: Handel's Water Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4


> My choices

On spotify http://open.spotify.com/user/rmopl/playlist/56qtSf8pB2WgUH3b...


"Push It" by Garbage. Also, I don't think I could work at a startup that would place me in an environment where I would hear "The final countdown" more than once a year.


Rick Ross - Push It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2jeE1LOn8&ob=av2e

The only song to push real code. :)


This is mostly fluff and breaks your back button.


I use Roll Out or Push It as my main deploy songs as well, but it doesn't get far into the song before the deploy is done. Once in a while, I throw Muhna Muhna into the mix.

I changed my co-worker's song to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up nearly a year ago when he was AFK. He hasn't changed it because now every time he deploys code, I get to listen to that damn song.


The album The Quantum Hack Code by Amogh Symphony could be fun for this. http://youtu.be/nlpelyRRpCo or http://youtu.be/iPAdsGsDSKY

Chimp Spanner Bad Code would also be neat http://youtu.be/hnLYc0c5yBA


For rollouts of new Granola versions, it's usually either "Let's Get It / Sky's The Limit" by Young Jeezy (http://youtu.be/GBhipX5cHtA) or "Destroy the Opposition" by Dying Fetus (http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI).


Last night while taking a break from coding to organize some playlists I though to myself, "I wonder if there's any correlation between the type of music people listen to VS the type of coding they're doing?"

On that note, does anyone know if there's a Pandora station dedicated to hacking?


If that is so then I guess there are a lot of people writing crappy 80s code.


All of my coding is done with Ratatat as background music.

As for the Pandora station, I'm not sure. turntable.fm has a coding room, though.


I've been trying to get "Out In The Fields" as our official push song for the past few years, but nobody seems to love it as much as I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKpazeA5L8


Ours is Queen - We Are the Champions. This is how we know it's been a good day:

https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.p...


Uppermost - Born Limitless

Uppermost - Evi

Ronald Jenkees - Disorganized Fun

Ronald Jenkees - Stay Crunchy

Zircon - Warhead

Zircon - The Art of Zen (and the entire Antigravity album)

Skrillex - Drop Dead (Blende Remix)

Alex Metric's remix of Lizstomania

and drumroll while we're on "push"-themed stuff... Wolfgang Gartner - Push and Rise

You will get so much done.


You immediately increased my productivity with that Skrillex song; please send me an invoice.

My humble contribution:

Nine Inch Nails - Me I'm not

Daft Punk - Too Long


Pushing code across 20-odd servers using OpDemand only takes 30 seconds, so there's not much time for tunage. Still I'd have to go with the mashup:

Deadmau5 vs. Salt N' Pepa - Ghost N' Push It


Interesting. Expected more electronic tbh.

Personally I like Ellen Allien - Push

'Push push, ass ass'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8


I would definitely use "Push" by Matchbox 20 if I felt a need for a push song.


Etsy wins.


Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson told us that although the company abandoned push songs in late 2009 due to the fact that they “started deploying 10x/day.”

Whoa. I'll have what they're having.


This is still the best post I ever read about it, and it just so happens to contain the birth of the Lean Startup marketing phenomenon as told by Eric Ries: http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deplo...


Is that really uncommon these days? I think I personally deployed code 5 times today.


CI yo wassup Jenkins getcha dev/ops on

yeaaaa boiiiii</brogrammer>


I don't even use Jenkins... we have our test suite and autotest running while we code. Instantly know when you're done breaking stuff and ready to deploy.

A CI server would be nice as a pre-deploy sanity check, but that requires me to push to it in order to get feedback.




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