techZING! 25 – Minimalism
December 8th, 2009
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Justin and Jason discuss the cost of a poor customer service experience, TweetMiner on Hacker News, using PayPal’s reference transaction ID for repeat transactions, Jason’s cross platform messaging library, making code open source, test driven development and exploratory programming, weekend productivity, learning calculus in 2 1/2 hours, minimalism in life and in code, teaming up with developers and designers on BuildItWith.me, and why you should make it work and make it pretty before making it fast.
Hey great show guys. Just one complaint… you guys left a couple of threads loose…
Jason, what did happen with google and Preezo 2 years ago?
Justin, did anything happen with those three angel investors that contacted you? Can you say what they offered?
Otherwise I really enjoy it.
Thanks,
Xavi
I’m not sure you noticed this Jason, but MT also broke Preezo’s blog: http://blog.preezo.com/
Crap!! I forgot to even check that! Thanks for the heads up.
@Xavi
I’ll try to remember to tell the Preezo story again in the next show, but the reason I didn’t get into it in this past episode I didn’t want to bore everyone with yet another re-telling since I’m pretty sure I’ve told it at least once before. It’s kind of interesting I guess, so what the hell.
Thanks again guys for the great show. I read “There’s no speed limit” by Derek Sivers just the day before listening to your show. After you guys talked about it and after hearing Jason’s stories I decided to post my story on how I started programming:
http://blog.traysoft.com/2009/12/nobody-told-me-its-impossible-so-i-did-it/
Thanks for the inspiration!
Great post Michael, I submitted it to hacker news
@Justin
Thanks Justin, it’s been on the front page on hacker news all day