Be on the look out for a sweet new app from your friend Mark (via me)! We’re getting started in the next few days. Thanks again for the recommendation, much appreciated.

Aaron

IAEA is confused about Iran’s program:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/un-watchdog-concerned-iran-secretly-developing-nuclear-weapons-despite-iaea-talks-1.513148
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/iran-transfers-soil-base-targeted-nuclear-auditors-envoys/

I have little faith for world-wide organizations such as the UN and the committees it has, and IAEA.. its full of politics and it doesn’t reflect the truth at all. The fact Iran signed NPT means nothing to me, when time comes I’m sure Iran won’t care much.
In 73′, Yom Kippur war, Egypt and Syria broke cease-fire agreements and crossed the line. They were signed on some peace of paper as well at that time.

2008:
“…Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation”

2011,
“..like a cancer cell that spreads through the body, this regime infects any region. It must be removed from the body..”

The guy who said it, and has many more statements against Israel and US, he may be “peaceful” regarding his nuclear activities now, maybe, but what makes you so sure that he won’t flip at the end? When he does, and he’ll use his weapons, how many will die then?

Israel may or may not have nuclear weapon, but I’ve never heard any threats made by Israeli government officials to annihilate anyone. I have a feeling that if this nuclear yes/no rumor wasn’t out there, we would see more of what we had in 48′, 67′ and 73′. Sadly, I agree that having a bigger stick is the ultimate defense. Up until the point where the world believed Israel has nuclear power, israel suffered many annihilation attempts by its neighbors (although now we have much more terrorists to worry about and less wars, but still its an improvement of some sort).

This situation reminds me a little on Yom Kippur war in 73′:
In 73′, if Israel would attack first it won’t get any aid from US, Kissinger said so himself (Israel already had intel about the Egypt and Syria plans).
Yom Kippur war is by far one of the most tragic wars to Israel.
Another interesting fact about 73′ war: US plains were not allowed to land in any european country because the europeans were worried about their oil deals with Arab countries, lucky us…

If this time is like back in 1973, the consequences are far grater and affect the entire world.

For me the bottom line is that the small chance you’re wrong, we all pay the price.
You have any doubts about Iran’s involvement in terror around the world? what do you think will happen once they’ll have their friendly peaceful nuclear power?
For people who live in Israel this is a serious chance to take.
Even if Iran won’t attack Israel, it’ll drag the entire region to nuclear armsrace (Iran has strong grip on Syria and Lebanon) and we’ll have a mexican standoff.

I’ll look into the links you sent, thanks.

1. It is the consensus view of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran halted it’s nuclear weapons program in 2003.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/world/la-fg-iran-intel-20120224

2. In 1992, Netanyahu, claimed that Iran was three to five years from developing a nuclear bomb. It was a false statement then, and it’s a false statement now.
http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/Earliest-warnings-1979-84

3. While Israel refuses to confirm or deny anything about it’s nuclear weapons program, it is widely believed that Israel now has as many as 200 atomic warheads. Irony…?
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barak-no-threat-to-israel-s-policy-of-nuclear-ambiguity-1.289438

4. Israel, like North Korea and Pakistan, is not a signatory of the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons). Iran, on the other hand, is a signatory of the NPT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons

5. Not only is Iran a signatory of the NPT, but in 2003 they signed the Additional Protocol on Nuclear Safeguards treaty. IAEA inspectors are all over Iran inspecting their nuclear material and facilities on a weekly basis. Even if Iranian leadership wanted to begin working on a nuclear bomb, they would have to kick the IAEA out of the country, which would obviously alert the world.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2003/iranap20031218.html

6. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA, said he had not “seen a shred of evidence” that Iran was pursuing the bomb, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger,” he said. “All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.”
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Hersh-6-6-11.pdf

7. If Israel were to attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, or somehow manage to head fake the U.S. into doing it for them, it would likely result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iranian men, women and children. And if Israel decided to use nukes to achieve this (or if it escalated to that), those numbers would likely be in the millions. Israel, incidentally, would take quite a hit as well.
http://www.alternet.org/world/unimaginable-destruction-if-israel-did-attack-iran-nuclear-weapons
http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/pdf/1752-1505-7-10.pdf

8. Don’t allow yourself to fall victim to the politics of fear. It’s how the US congress and population was manipulated into supporting an aggressive war against Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of over a million Iraqis and thousands of American and coalition soldiers, not to mention an unimaginable cost of $6 trillion dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

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Long time fan of the show. I really enjoy the discussion every week.

Thought I would provide an insight into concerns about sharing. I work for a competitor to Uber in Sydney, Australia (goCatch.com). We are approaching the problem from the taxi end (as opposed to limos), but we are definitely in the same space.

I agree with Jason on this. I have found Jason’s insights on technical challenges and solutions at Uber interesting, but at no point have I caught myself thinking “WOW! We can use that”. Comparing architectures and approaches is interesting from an academic perspective, but that is all.

Just my two cents.

Have you thought about recording a long show, but splitting it in two so you can make the show weekly again?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-nepal-tv-record-idUSBRE93E0SJ20130415

1. Percona – it was an awesome talk with Alexander from Percona.
All the “Aha” moments we could’ve get for the next few months were squeezed into the single expert session. I honestly wanted to replicate he’s brain.

2. @Jason – the accountability website for public influencers – I thought about something like that for a while, but I found out that most of the public is losing interest quickly.
Usually public issues touch closely only a small group of people. Something might get millions of people involved at first, but the real problem is – how many people will actually care enough 6 months after the election? 6 months after someone promised to change something? to fix something? I believe the people that will actually care is a small group that feel strongly about the issue.

About 2 years ago, during the Arab spring, million Israelis demonstrated against the expensive living in Israel (population is 7 mil, 1 mil demonstrating is a lot). Since then – no real issue was resolved, its getting worse for a lot of families to survive, and the recent demonstration about the subject (the “reorganization” of the parties involved) was few thousands of people only.

In Israel we have a website maintained by a public org. (not the government) with issues and responsibilities of public figures. Anyone rarely looks at it and asks “So what’s going on with X?”. The media is trying, but as long as the public doesn’t care enough itself, the media won’t cover it.

I guess if most of us had less crazy life perhaps we could “afford” to care more.

3. Israel-Iran-Nuclear weapon issue – the information about it is so conflicted. There are many reports that state Iran is actually developing a nuclear weapon (or at least trying to).

Frankly, I don’t trust the media much especially if the source of the information is a government.
I believe that Iran is building a nuclear weapon to be at the same status like Pakistan and North Korea. That’s its biggest goal.
Problem is, Iran is responsible for many terror organizations, weaponizing and training them.
Iran may not actually bomb Israel with nuclear rockets, and Iran may not give nuclear weapons to terror org. – but is it a chance we (Israelis) should take? is it a chance the entire world should take (US and Europe suffer from terror attacks as well)?

Many say that Iran won’t bomb Israel because we have Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt around us. True. But Hamas bombed Jerusalem recently, a city they feel so strongly about and call it their sacred place (in their bombing of Jerusalem they actually hit an area populated with Palestinians without any remorse) so how much can you really trust their love for each other?

Bottom line, I don’t think that a government like Iran should have a nuclear power. The implications (or possible implications) of nuclear Iran are so great and scary that the world should seriously consider putting an end to it. I know how awful a war is, that’s the last thing I want, but when you allow the violent kid at school to walk around with a rock, he will make more damage next time he’s getting pissed at someone (sounds better in Hebrew).

Laravel + Titanium would be a nice stack. Please let us know how it goes!

I think in this episode you praised a PHP framework that was based on symfony maybe? If you recall that, could you remind me which framework you talked about?

I’m looking into starting a Titanium app based on your previous suggestions and would like to start the server side on the right foot as well.

Cheers!

It basically says that education startups shouldn’t focus on quality, but then again, that’s from 2011, his experience is with higher education, and sometimes early==wrong.

As it turns out, I listened to an episode of The Walking Dead ‘Cast recently where they were interviewing Jay and Jack of The Lost Podcast, and apparently they did a 24-hour show at one point. I think they said it just about killed them.

Maybe we could try doing an ultra-long show first – like maybe 3 or 4 hours and see how that works out. Kind of do a prototype.

Did a quick search but couldn’t find anything definitive about the world record for the longest podcast. There was some talk on TWiT of Leo trying to do a 24h+ podcast on New Years 2014, but I can’t recall if they thought that’d be a world record.

Found Justin’s twitter account, but I couldn’t find Jason’s. Any clues?

that news should put a smile on your dial

Doh! I guess there are digedu competitors lurking in the TZ shadows. My bad, Justin.

Yep, that’s a good idea to “add a search field on the home page and track what expertise people are looking for” and it’s something we’ve had in the back of our minds for a long time. Like Justin said, AnyFu might be the little engine that could. One expert at a time …

Also, thanks so much for the positive feedback!

There are lots of reactor pattern implementations out there, node.js just came along and made it really accessible and really fast, so it just took off like crazy.

W00t!

On the AnyFu front, I went and checked out the site after the show and its come a long way since I checked it last! I love the idea of bumping in-demand experts to the front of the line. Maybe you can add a search field on the home page and track what expertise people are looking for.

Love the show – thanks for all the hard work!

Justin, if you need some DigEdu smoke and mirrors let me know

Here is a link to the Map Maker – http://www.dwarvenforge.com/mapmaker

It’s all HTML5 – using Kinect.js (http://kineticjs.com/)

When I spoke of apps, I meant on the TV itself, not on an attached box. But if you’re unaware of them, the manufacturer is obviously doing a really bad job. Assuming I’ve identified your device correctly – a Samsung with an additional touch remote is almost certainly one of the expensive smart TVs. There’s a Smart Hub button on your remotes (probably hexagonal, in the middle), which leads to an app launcher and an app “marketplace”, not unlike a smartphone.

I’ve become somewhat involved in that space recently, but my main conclusion is that it’s a huge waste of money and engineers’ brain cycles. The only real purpose seems to be manufacturer’s differentiation in marketing materials. A bullet point on a flyer.

Anyway, I’ve been extremely skeptical of the whole smart TV / web TV thing ever since the mid-nineties when they first started pushing the idea. It sounded stupid to me then and still sounds stupid to me now.

If not – do you think there’s any point putting them there? (Especially considering you’re a geek – if you don’t find them interesting, why would the average Joe Doe. And it certainly made the set more expensive.)

Enjoyed the discussions of mecruit and Digedu. Digedu sounds like a great product and a really good story. It would be interesting to hear some background on how the founders came up with it and got to the point of promising demos to schools without an experienced coder involved.

It always makes me laugh when I watch the original Terminator film, theres a bit where you see from the Terminators POV and you see his ‘program’ scrolling down the screen. Its actually 6502 machine code.

Keep up the great work, always a pleasure to listen to.

Fitbit is a great alternative to the Basis watch – it doesn’t do the heart rate/perspiration tracking, but it’s only $99. You just clip it to your belt/pocket and are on your way. I also bought one of the WiFi enabled scales (I have the Withings one, there are others now) that automatically records your weight and does charts, as well as integrates with the Fitbit web app. I knew I would be too lazy to record my weight in a spreadsheet manually, so this is perfect for me.

I really liked the look of the Basis webapp and the goals. I went to ordered one a few months ago but they were still out of stock, so I’ll stick with my trusty fitbit for now.

I’ve posted this before on a past episode where Justin has talking about weight loss, but I’ll mention it again. Two small changes that had a big impact for me (>50 lbs lost): 1) bring a sack lunch to work instead of going out to eat, 2) if I want to watch a TV show (and I love me some TV!) I had to be exercising (treadmill, lifting weights) while I did it. Best of luck Justin – keep us updated

If not – do you think there’s any point whatsoever putting them there? (Esp. since you’re a geek – if you don’t find them interesting, why would the average Joe Doe. And it certainly made the set more expensive.)

It has been a great journey and like others commenting above, I think you’ve got the balance right with Catalyst, various tech story links and your continuing development endeavours with AnyFu and Pluggio (and the secret project). Thanks for all the great shows.

I think it’d be great to have more interview shows but I also understand how much time this likely eats into your very busy schedules.

This week is also the first time I’m fully caught up with TechZing (seem to always be about 1-2 months behind for all podcasts) so I’m eagerly awaiting the next episode.

When I started listening I had downloaded an episode (on a recommendation) but didn’t listen to it for about six months. Then I started from that episode and caught up in fast-forward mode for a while, so no waiting for new episodes!

TechZing hits a nice balance of being interesting, educational and having continuing topics that I look forward to hearing updates on but it’s not so ‘practical’ that I feel I should be concentrating and taking notes like with Startups for the Rest of Us, etc.

Are you guys heading to MicroConf this year ? If so are you going to be having a TechZing get together ?

It would be great to say hello in person.

Cheers
Sam

Let me just echo Andrew’s appreciation. I don’t think I’ve listened to all the episodes, but I’ve come close. The constant story lines about Anyfu, Catalyst, Pluggio, etc are great for those of us that have been listening for awhile. I like the links too, but it’s great to get that transparent communication about how you guys keep on moving forward on your projects. I also have two young boys, so the Catalyst story is fascinating. Jason, when my oldest gets to be Colby’s age in a few years, I’m going to be hitting you up for how to start a session up here in the Northwest!

Keep at it guys, great job. I promise, you’re not talking just to cyberspace! And I’m dying to hear what that secret project is!!

Nick

I just wanted to say I have now listened to every single episode (except the lost ones). I did 68 to ~200 and then 1 to 67, filling in with new episodes. I was always a BBC podcast only guy but then I tried HNewsPod and they mentioned you. Then from you I branched out to Rob and Mike and onwards to other startup podcasts. As a software engineer this has been a real education (my only education in starting a business) and I wish I had found you guys sooner .

This is weird: I want to listen to you guys while I do some chores but for the first time there is no new episode available :-[. I hope you guys are busy recording one now .

Thanks for the education and for keeping me company.

Best,
Andrew Cox

The “hire me for an hour on AnyFu” widget seems like a must to me. Link juice + more sessions for clients + more publicity for AnyFu = win-win-win.

You also need to encourage your experts to link to their Anyfoo profiles from their personal websites. Something along the lines of “want an hour of my time? Find me on Anyfu”. This will benefit both you and the experts, assuming anyfu is really adding value by reducing the friction of setting up “burst” consulting. You could include this in your profile creation flow: “for best results link to your anyfu profile from your website”. You could even encourage specific wording to get the best SEO effect (avoid skeez though).

One last piece of unsolicited advice: it would be good to put a redundant list of external links (that appear headings) in the left hand sidebar. The headings are not obviously (to me) links, even with the little link icon next to them. Perhaps also provide links to the experts twitter and linkedin profiles.

Also, thanks for the great show!!

Oh cool! The six foot track is pretty awesome. I walked it quite a while back but some of the views are breathtaking. Did you do it the easy way (Jenolan to Nellies Glen) or the hard way (reverse).

If you like that walk I suggest the Starlights Trail in Natti, or during summer Guthega to Blue Pool in the Snowy Mountains.

http://app-framework-software.intel.com/documentation.php#jqUi/jqui_layout
http://app-framework-software.intel.com/documentation.php#jqUi/jqui-quickstart

This quickstart shows how to make the “page” elements in a fixed way. I prefer the flexibility of the custom header/footer layout.

I use the stylebuilder (find it in the menu at the top) to create the CSS by default. Then I tweak it.

I haven’t finished my app so there are things I have yet to do. So far I like this framework and I think the recent buyout by Intel should only make it better.

For me its about avoiding eyestrain. I can bump the font up to a largeish size (16 pt usually works well) and avoid squinting.

For the record my eyesight is perfect (or so the doctors tell me) so its not a “needs glasses” thing either.

Thought for your next show, id love to hear more about how you developed HTML5 phone applications. I’ve been asked to look into it and Phonegap + HTML5 seems to goods, but I would rather use some existing UI components then build them myself. Tried jQuery mobile and I have issues with its “flashing” all the time etc….

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1700/do-bigger-or-more-monitors-increase-productivity

also the small air doesn’t cost 1200, its more like in the 800′s.

In the vein of offline development, I’m sure you saw the Kickstarter for offline Git in the browser