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Justin and Jason discuss why Jason is sad about Colby quitting club soccer, scaling Node.js to a million concurrent connections and how Redis is used at Uber, what it’s like working at UberMedia and Idealab, how Sandy is helping out with AnyFu, ideas on how to share customer support responsibilities, why Justin is frustrated with Pluggio and what Jason thinks he should do about it, the upstart success of Jason’s iPad fund and why Justin wants to raise money for audio software, building iPhone apps with Visual Studio and JyOS, the panic over Fukushima and how uranium extracted from the ocean could power the human race until 5000AD, Justin’s update on intermittent fasting, recruiting kids for Catalyst, RoboRally and learning to program by training a robot, how your brain can be hacked, the high performance PHP framework Phalcon PHP, how Coursera is introducing an honor code in an attempt to reduce cheating, how Twitter is slitting their own throat, individualist and collectivist coding and why quality happens when someone is responsible for it, the problem of sorting out who owns what when signing IP contracts, speculating on whether Buffer was influenced by Pluggio, and how Rob Walling was quoted in a New York Times article.
Maybe I’m missing some information about the audio processing tool you described on the show, but… was the plugin you mentioned $350? The whole Adobe Audition which has that filter included is $349 (according to https://www.adobe.com/products/audition/buying-guide.html) – it was also available when Audition was still called Cool Edit Pro (and when it was still non-adobe $100 shareware app).
I used it to clean up noise from vinyl records using some old equipment, that app and the same technique (gather profile from silence, filter out from the whole track) and the effects were really good. Then again you’re compressing to a 128kbps mp3… if you can accept post-processing rather than remove noise while recording, you could even use Audacity temporarily. Its implementation of noise removal may not be perfect, but I think it’s impressive for a free tool. Definitely makes a difference when tested on your show (tested with “silence” from the fragment where silence detector was late to kick in).
[posted too early by accident …]
My point was – are you trying to get a cannon for a single fly? 😉
@Stanislaw – This is the tool I’m using – http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/ – it’s a VST plugin that plugs directly into my editing software (Tracktion). I just click play and it takes the background noise out on the fly while giving me full access to my usual editing features. It also has other audio processing tools that can be useful in the future. I chose this brand because they make Ozone – http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/ – I use version 4 of ozone for the general mastering of the show and it does an awesome job. Basically, I don’t want to have to pre-process the audio in a separate program and then bring it in to Traction.
Here’s a screen shot of the editing system in action: http://grab.by/fFO0
As an aside, can you guess which track Jason’s audio is on top or bottom? 😉
Yeah, I guess not having two steps is pretty nice 🙂 I did appreciate Ozone a couple of years ago, looks like it only got better.
Anyway, thanks for the show. I can’t wait for other usual groups to try the 1M connections challenge (expecting people using vert.x, erlang, event machine and at least twisted from python to have some competing benchmarks soon!)
@Justin Damn,you use Trackion?, (by Mackie right), you must be the only person I know that uses it.
I used to use that program until they stopped doing new versions, it has a very original interface and concept, it’s a shame they stopped doing it. I also use Izotope ozone to give tunes a last mix.
@Both – Great episode guys.
AnyFu – I think the work that Sandy has done on AnyFu shows how time can be used constructively to gain some real traction. Considering that conversion rates are typical low in terms of any sales funnel, building a large list of prospects makes perfect sense. By now you have proven that AnyFu is functional (even with some small bugs)?
@Justin
Pluggio – Tough one. Have you tried to value the site (including future income)? Are the any unconventional methods to extend the paying traffic base (eg offering product in another language)? Are there any existing players looking for a talent acquisition?
Diet – Incorporating exercise into daily life is easiest. Walking or riding to work. I don’t believe in these diets. A diet has to have longevity and starving yourself doesn’t seem practical for the long term. A balance of exercise (as above) and healthy eating (smaller portion sizes and less saturated fat & sugars).
Doh! Feel like a total douche now…. I should have kept my mouth shut about the hissing.
I was literally cringing on the train when I heard the comments on the software, and thinking “Oh crap I just cost Justin a chunk of change because I couldn’t keep my stupid mouth shut.” and then the mention… embarrassment. I tend to do that a lot… speak without thinking of consequences. Hope I didn’t hurt your feelings Justin as I know you do an excellent
BTW it does work, I was going to comment on the quality of the last show but got hit by a death march project and currently in the middle of rewriting most of the contractors code so it works.
I’ll sling you some cash in the next day or two. You guys can figure out how you want to divy it up either to Justin for software, Jason for iPad or a 50/50 split or whatever. Go with whatever you feel.
As for which track is Jason…. I know nothing about producing music or sound editing, but there appears to be a lot more going on in the top one, so I will guess that’s a reflection of how loud he is and how much he talks 🙂
Hey guys,
Another subject area to look into for anyfu might be statistics. I watched a statistician spend 20m on data that a grad student had collected for her thesis. The value that of that 20m session was huge. Well worth a $100-300 an hour even for a cash-strapped student. There are a lot of people out there with data that the right statistician can spend 1 hour with and come back with value that would have taken weeks or been impossible get otherwise.
A related area might visualizing data for presentations.
I could see myself booking a statistician session.
just a thought.
Good Day
Seeing that you were confused about how to pronounce my name; I think an easy explanation would be “YAKU”.
It is an Afrikaans name. So, if you are keeping track of random countries where you have listeners, add South Africa.
Thanks for the podcasts.
Regards
Jaco
If we’re doing pronunciation, mine is nee-tay.
@Jaco Hamilton-Attwell, @nethy – I can’t believe how long I’ve been mispronouncing “nethy”! Sorry about that. Well, it’s a good thing that “Jason” is virtually impossible to mispronounce, otherwise I’d probably screw that up, too. 😉
I can totally understand the urge to own and protect your code but I feel like it is counterproductive in startup scenarios. Justin is obviously a capable coder and it seems like your decision to keep him out of the code is slowing AnyFu down. Like a single craftsman can only take on small projects, a single coder is going to bottleneck any sizable project. I’m not one to talk though, I often fall into the same trap with my own startup ideas.
Hi guys,
Another great podcast. Just a quickie suggestion for an expert for anyfu, not sure if you’ve heard of the guy or not. Dick Wall of the JavaPossee podcast (http://javaposse.com/) has a Scala consultancy. Not sure about being able to claim he ‘wrote the book’ but as far as name recognition goes in the Scala/Java community he should be very well known. Obviously, having a podcast as well with no small amount of listeners could help if he did sign up to anyfu.
All the best,
Robin