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Ah, Push it. The Push Music Behind 19 Startups.

62 points by jrlevine 15y ago

djb_hackernews 15y ago
This is mostly fluff and breaks your back button.
puppybeard 15y ago
Etsy wins.
- vyrotek 15y ago
  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.
  - PatrickTulskie 15y ago
    Is that really uncommon these days? I think I personally deployed code 5 times today.
    - seanp2k2 15y ago
      CI yo wassup Jenkins getcha dev/ops on yeaaaa boiiiii</brogrammer>
      - PatrickTulskie 15y ago
        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.
  - dpritchett 15y ago
    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-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/ http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deplo...
gghootch 15y ago
Interesting. Expected more electronic tbh. Personally I like Ellen Allien - Push 'Push push, ass ass' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8
mitjak 15y ago
"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.
jonursenbach 15y ago
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKpazeA5L8
firefoxman1 15y ago
I would definitely use "Push" by Matchbox 20 if I felt a need for a push song.
PatrickTulskie 15y ago
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.
tmh88j 15y ago
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?
- sofal 15y ago
  If that is so then I guess there are a lot of people writing crappy 80s code.
- untog 15y ago
  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.
josephturnip 15y ago
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 http://youtu.be/GBhipX5cHtA) or "Destroy the Opposition" by Dying Fetus (http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI).
edw519 15y ago
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 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 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 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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4
- spindritf 15y ago
  > My choices On spotify http://open.spotify.com/user/rmopl/playlist/56qtSf8pB2WgUH3bKtdtqc http://open.spotify.com/user/rmopl/playlist/56qtSf8pB2WgUH3b...
freshfey 15y ago
Rick Ross - Push It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2jeE1LOn8&ob=av2e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2jeE1LOn8&ob=av2e The only song to push real code. :)
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gabrtv 15y ago
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
trabianmatt 15y ago
Ours is Queen - We Are the Champions. This is how we know it's been a good day: https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.png https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.p...
seanp2k2 15y ago
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.
- stiletto 15y ago
  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
Or1on 15y ago
The album The Quantum Hack Code by Amogh Symphony could be fun for this. http://youtu.be/nlpelyRRpCo http://youtu.be/nlpelyRRpCo or http://youtu.be/iPAdsGsDSKY http://youtu.be/iPAdsGsDSKY Chimp Spanner Bad Code would also be neat http://youtu.be/hnLYc0c5yBA http://youtu.be/hnLYc0c5yBA

62 points by jrlevine 15y ago

djb_hackernews 15y ago

This is mostly fluff and breaks your back button.

puppybeard 15y ago

Etsy wins.

vyrotek 15y ago
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.
- PatrickTulskie 15y ago
  Is that really uncommon these days? I think I personally deployed code 5 times today.
  - seanp2k2 15y ago
    CI yo wassup Jenkins getcha dev/ops on yeaaaa boiiiii</brogrammer>
    - PatrickTulskie 15y ago
      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.
- dpritchett 15y ago
  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-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/ http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deplo...

gghootch 15y ago

Interesting. Expected more electronic tbh. Personally I like Ellen Allien - Push 'Push push, ass ass' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8

mitjak 15y ago

"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.

jonursenbach 15y ago

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

firefoxman1 15y ago

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

PatrickTulskie 15y ago

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.

tmh88j 15y ago

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?

sofal 15y ago
If that is so then I guess there are a lot of people writing crappy 80s code.
untog 15y ago
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.

josephturnip 15y ago

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 http://youtu.be/GBhipX5cHtA) or "Destroy the Opposition" by Dying Fetus (http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI http://youtu.be/-YVUyNBjQiI).

edw519 15y ago

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 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 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 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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4

spindritf 15y ago
> My choices On spotify http://open.spotify.com/user/rmopl/playlist/56qtSf8pB2WgUH3bKtdtqc http://open.spotify.com/user/rmopl/playlist/56qtSf8pB2WgUH3b...

freshfey 15y ago

Rick Ross - Push It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2jeE1LOn8&ob=av2e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2jeE1LOn8&ob=av2e The only song to push real code. :)

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gabrtv 15y ago

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

trabianmatt 15y ago

Ours is Queen - We Are the Champions. This is how we know it's been a good day: https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.png https://img.skitch.com/20120313-c4cbt33txej9m4nstkguycp45i.p...

seanp2k2 15y ago

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.

stiletto 15y ago
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

Or1on 15y ago

The album The Quantum Hack Code by Amogh Symphony could be fun for this. http://youtu.be/nlpelyRRpCo http://youtu.be/nlpelyRRpCo or http://youtu.be/iPAdsGsDSKY http://youtu.be/iPAdsGsDSKY Chimp Spanner Bad Code would also be neat http://youtu.be/hnLYc0c5yBA http://youtu.be/hnLYc0c5yBA