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[amelius]

The problem: you don't want to be DJ-ing at work, where your time is better spent on more important things than what music you will listen to.

[emodendroket → amelius]

To the contrary, that's precisely what I want to be doing at work often enough.

[amelius → emodendroket]

Heh, between DJ-ing and reading HN, do you find the time to do actual work?

[emodendroket → amelius]

Yeah, of course, and I doubt my colleagues are putting in eight consecutive productive hours every day either. Hard to be on all the time.

[imajoredinecon → amelius]

Disagree with the premise - you don’t have to sacrifice productivity to put time into finding good music. For one, you don’t have to do your music research during working hours. But even if you do, it doesn’t mean you’re trading off productivity in order to do it.

[andreilys → imajoredinecon]

you don’t have to do your music research during working hours. But even if you do, it doesn’t mean you’re trading off productivity in order to do it.

Trying to find music when you could be focusing is by definition, trading off productivity.

I’d rather have an algorithm dictate what songs I want to listen to (in order to focus) than spend an hour wading through junk to find something i like before I start coding.

[tjr225 → andreilys]

And I would rather not. Obviously plenty of music enthusiasts here are disappointed with the results the algorithms come up with!

[tjr225 → amelius]

“More important” :P