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Justin and Jason talk to Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Spine.js and a bunch of other cool stuff.
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Nice show! 🙂
Stripe creator then Alex Mccaw, you guys are on a roll.
Great choice of guests
Jason….Justin…. Regarding topics of discussion / credentials of your guests, and whether or not all of your content should be directly related to tech…I have two quick thoughts. First, it’s reasonable for others to suggest you stick to such a narrow breadth of content categorization, since that was sort of what you originally implied the Techzing podcast would be about (the name alone is just such an implication). Second, my vote is on the jockey(s) not the horse. Yup, I’m not at all in favor of having you impose on yourselves, each other or your guests any restrictions whatsoever as to topics of discussion. Sure, I love the tech stuff. But you two dudes are the “jockeys” in this metaphor, and whatever direction you choose to lead the horse (the podcast) is perfectly fine with me. No subject matter is “off topic”…..so long as the quality of the discussion of that topic is strong…..I’m with ya’! Really.
~David~
OK….and as a suggestion for a timely tech topic to discuss on your next “discussion style” show, here goes:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112915336632820293699/posts/B1Kde61Q7pg
@Path & @Hipster….. if a THIEF steals your wallet and immediately / voluntarily confesses their crime to the police, but the police don’t explain to the self-confessed THIEF exactly what the THIEF’S “user data privacy rights” are prior to receiving the THIEF’S confession, then the police are prohibited by law from “using the THIEF’S data (confession)”. The police can’t merely “admit they dropped the ball and promise to revamp their systems and to never make the mistake again”…..BUT…..meanwhile, still use the THIEF’S confession against the THIEF in court. So why should you (@path & @hipster) benefit from having violated Apple’s and your users’ data privacy expectations / agreements? You should immediately suspend new user signups and any plans for a “user data app dev summit”…..unless and until you erase your user database (not your user’s contact list….I’m talking about erasing YOUR APP’s backend user database) and start over…..launching your app all over again with zero users……on the same leveled playing field the more honorable (and in this case….disadvantaged) app dev’s have ALWAYS stuck to. Oh…..and if you do erase / start over from scratch…..then the “user data app dev summit” is a FANTASTIC IDEA and would be a great forum from which to relaunch (and to announce your “first” user sign ups!).
As a corollary, ya’ know who could insure that such a transparent, honorable corrective action happened…….and could insure it was completed within the next 24 hours?@path’s and @hipster’s Angel and/or Venture investors. What’s been heard publicly from all of them? So far…..not much.
How is any of this different than allowing the financial institutions that violated all manner of “user agreements” while contributing to the Economic Crisis in 2008 to just apologize, reshuffle a few “C-level” employees, and then keep right on going….thus effectively penalizing any financial institutions who operated within the parameters of the law all along?
~D~
@Jonathon Wheat
Please take a minute and read this post.
What are you trying to accomplish with this kind of post? You offer no constructive criticism or any form of evidence refuting Jason’s opinions. I am pretty floored that a podcast could incite such a strong negative reaction – but you aren’t strengthening your position with the kind of comment you decided to leave.
You rail against Jason for his stereotyping of West coast programmers, then proceed to make your own sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about how all people in Silicon Valley are assholes. To me, your post is just mean-spirited and ends up reflecting poorly on you – not Jason.
My advice is that if you don’t agree with show and don’t want to contribute to an intelligent discussion, simple don’t listen. Trolling the comments of a tech podcast is certainly not a productive use of your time, nor Justin and Jason’s time.
So if your podcast is large enough to attract flame does that mean you have made it in terms of size?
If so, Congrats guys! You now have trolls to go with the fans.
@Matt S, Ben Boyter – It sucks to have to read that kind of stuff, but we really do appreciate it when you guys jump to our defense and try to balance out the anger and criticism with some positive feedback. It really does make a difference.
I just hope the sudden rise in hostility isn’t a trend because it sure takes the fun out of doing the show.
Some of the negative comments lately aren’t just negative, but have been pretty damn toxic and possibly over the top. Like what other people have said – if you don’t like it, don’t listen.
You guys have done a couple of great shows in such a sort time period. Maybe a bit of a break is deserved? Let the dust settle and let the hot heads move on… the last thing we want is to have TechZing become more of an obligation rather than a bit of fun.
Jason, Justin, and all
I apologize for my post last week, it was indeed toxic and uncalled for. Unfortunately you received the unprofessional brunt of lets say a bad week.
@matt S- point taken, you are correct, thank you. I am actually not like that normally, but now in everyone’s eyes I am.
@Ben Boyter – you’re that was a troll post, and I’m sorry
@Alfie – I agree it is a good show
@Jason – I am sorry for the nastiness of the post and that I lashed out like that. Had no reason to direct that rage at you and actually visited here today to remove my post.
Feel free to delete whatever comments here you want to clean up the mess I left.
-Jon
Another energizing conversation with a passionate developer! The story about the one year traveling around the world made me long for my twenties and its freedom but was fun to listen to.
I actually saw Jonathan’s 1st comment before I got a chance to listen to the show and was also bummed about the content. But @Jonathan I give you credit for apologizing. Now you really will need to write a lot of insightful comments on TZ to make it up!
Jason and Justin, as you suggested a while ago in an episode, just focus on the positive contributions and keep it up, you’re on a roll! 🙂
@Jonathan Wheat – We’ve all sent emails or posted comments in a moment of anger that we later regretted, but what’s important is that you were willing to pull it back and post a genuine apology. For that I’m very appreciative, so no hard feelings. But as Philippe Monnet pointed out, you now owe us some insightful and/or entertaining comments. I’ll take either. 😉
I honestly never meant to denigrate any other part of the country when I was advising young hackers to give the Bay Area a shot, and if it came across that way I sincerely apologize. From my perspective it was really no different than telling as aspiring painter to go to Paris or an aspiring actor to go to Hollywood. In fact, Justin and I actually live in LA, which is six hours south of SF and is practically considered a different state by those who live in northern California. 😉
Also, while there may be a number of very good reasons to go to the Bay Area – the primary one being to hook into the startup world, there are also plenty of very valid reasons not to go – family, friends, or just the fact that you love where you live. I certainly had a chance to move up to SF last year to work for Uber and one of the main reasons that I decided not to was that I simply prefer living in Pasadena. So, there you have it. 😉
Anyway, we’ll be looking for you in the comments.
Well with that unpleasantness (group hug everyone!) out of the way how about a new discussion podcast?
@Ben Boyter – We’ve been so busy with AnyFu that we haven’t had as much time for the discussion shows, but we’ll try to do one this weekend.
@Jason
Fair enough. I think most people would rather see that get over the line and you guys launch it while doing the podcast. I am very curious to see it launch actually as there was someone I know looking for for an expert in Microsoft Workflow and I wanted to point them at AnyFu.
Actually thinking on that, it might be worth searching over twitter looking for people in “Technology” lists who tweet “Looking for expert in”. Pretty direct marketing strategy if you have the people on AnyFu. That said I am certain one of you have through of that already.
@Ben Boyter – I agree. We’re keeping the podcast going, but it’s more important for everyone that AnyFu work so that’s our primary objective right now.
In case you’re interested, here are the profiles for our first three approved experts:
http://anyfu.com/donnfelker
http://anyfu.com/lancejones
http://anyfu.com/joannawiebe
If you don’t mind, send me the email of the person who needs a Microsoft Workflow expert and I’ll see if I can get one registered on the site. Like you said, it’s a great way to entice an expert to register – “Hey, so and so wants to hire you. Register now!” 😉
@jason I don’t think I have his email but you can reach him on twitter, @jamesmcc the exact tweet is this one, https://twitter.com/#!/jamesmcc/status/169559692476022786 He is an angel investor and quite open to being approached.
Jason&Justin, could you please interview someone over 40? I feel intimidated by 22-year olds who did couple of startups, published a book, developed several open source projects and in addition traveled all over the world 🙂 Show us that older guys are still good for something 😉