• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On July 2, 2007

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Universal declares age of 8-tracks open again

Because really, that’s the only possible explanation for their pulling out of their iTunes Store contract. For once, Cory at BoingBoing nailed all the snidery that I wanted to drop onto this announcement in his opening sentence: “Universal Music Group, the largest record label on Earth (an accomplishment akin to being the world’s largest corset-buttoner, [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On July 2, 2007

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Product managers writing code, and other scary things

When your product manager checks code into your source control project, it means one of three things: Your engineering team is short-handed. Your project is really in trouble. Your development environment is really, really easy to use. While I’m not sure that #2 isn’t true, I found #3 to be absolutely true working on a [...]