Comments on: 249: TZ Discussion – Bit Is the New Von

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:42:44 +0000

@Michael Rakita – Thanks! Yeah, I was a little concerned myself. Momentum is everything and when you lose it, well … the end is nigh.

There’s a great quote from the movie World War Z (of all things) when Brat Pitt’s character Gerry Lane is attempting to convince a family to leave the relative safety of their home and come with them: “I used to work in dangerous places and the people who moved survived and those who didn’t… Movement is life. Movement is life.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JNw8PP5qgo

Time to move!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:27:44 +0000

@Steve French – Cool, I’m looking forward to that beta invite!

By: frederic torres

frederic torres — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:25:54 +0000

(1) Alpha house is really good
(2) Why Justin does not want to use a debugger? Really!
(3) Visual Studio support color coding, intellisense and full debugging experience for Python and NodeJs. It was released recently.

http://pytools.codeplex.com/
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingNodejsToolsForVisualStudio.aspx

This may convince some to go back to Windows?

By: Michael Rakita

Michael Rakita — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 02:31:13 +0000

I’m so glad you’re back on weekly schedule. I was a bit worried about the fate of my favorite podcast when you were doing one episode in 3-4 weeks 🙂 Thanks for the good show to finish 2013. Happy New Year to you and all listeners and all the best in 2014!

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:44:23 +0000

@Richard – That’s a great story thanks very much for sharing 🙂

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:15:22 +0000

I used to work along the corridor from Aubrey de Grey at Cambridge University when he was employed as a software developer (as was I), at the time he was doing his gerontology research on the side. I think other researchers resented that he was an engineer and not a ‘qualified’ scientist, but as you were discussing this meant he took a very different approach.

He came in for criticism (for good reason) when he started appearing in the news and on TV being introduced as from Cambridge University when his link with the university actually had nothing to do with his scientific research.

As a friend said – ‘if he wants to live to 1000 he shouldn’t ride his bike so fast around town’.

By: Philippe Monnet

Philippe Monnet — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:03:41 +0000

Regarding tracing vs. debugging, I would add a third option: writing either unit tests or acceptance tests (BDD).
I personally use a combination of all three but definitely leverage the debugger (Visual Studio when writing .NET apps, or Chrome Developer when writing NodeJS or browser JS code).

Merry XMas to all. It was great to listen to the outro after “news of the dark side”! 🙂

By: Steve French

Steve French — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:19:14 +0000

I’m actually working on the prediction tracking service/prediction market you mention! Expect your beta invites before the end of January!

By: John Humphrey

John Humphrey — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:39:55 +0000

About micropayments, I wonder why http://Flattr.com has not been more widely adopted. They really have it together. I’ve been Flattring for a few years. Perhaps you would consider adding a Flattr button. I also recently signed up for Dwolla, which is very much like Paypal except they only ever charge 25 cents per transaction, no matter the dollar transfer amount.
Great to have you back on a regular once a week schedule. Happy Holidays!