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Justin and Jason discuss the current status and growth of Pluggio, the failure of the human brain to comprehend the exponential function, word of mouth growth and super spreaders, Jason’s experience using Subversion, TortoiseSVN and Assembla, Justin’s warning about Subversion, performing a full-text seach on a subversion repository using SVNQuery, accidental excellence and it’s relationship to evolutionary theory, Jason’s serendipitous discovery of Titanium, the Mexican designer who was discovered on Hacker News, how Taylor is now doing the design work for Jason’s iPhone project, the possibility of inviting either John C. Dvorak or Richard Dolan to be a guest on the upcoming 50th show, Jason’s dream about how he interrogated some aliens that landed in his back yard, Justin’s theory about how our universe might be able to suck the energy from a parallel universe, Nick Cook – the editor for Jane’s Defense Weekly and his book The Hunt for Zero Point, Craig Venter’s creation of synthetic life, the feasibillity of developing an unbeatable AI algorithm for Swarm, Clark’s three laws, crowdsourcing the development of an AI for Swarm, how Netflix crowd-sourced their recommedation engine, financial vs social incentives in the book Freakonomics, Your World of Text, Cells – a massively multi-agent agorithm game and Jason’s previous description of a similar concept, the authoritarian SimCity experiment, Scott Adams’ blog post about how ideas are worthless and execution is everything, the HTML5 Showcase and the current status of HTML5 support, how Jason’s brother was recommended for the Distiguished Flying Cross, the movie Kickass, Jason’s ideas for some new show segments, Stanton’s law about how the future is not an extrapolation of the past, ways of capturing and tracking ideas, Justin’s use of iNotes, FreeMind and iThoughts HD, mind mapping and how Justin uses it, breadth-first vs depth-first development and how to keep from getting stuck in the weeds on a project.
1% growth per month is 12% a year man! That’s an extra $1200/yr for being lazy and sleeping in on Sunday! It’s Europe, without the crushing debt!
Hey Jason, you should really consider Mercurial. 100% of the workflow of subversion you want is the same but you can work offline.
AHHHHHHHHH SOURCE CONTROL IS NOT JUST FOR TEAMS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. FAINTING FROM SHOCK
Ok, done spamming.
Thank you Jason and Justin, you are the sunshine of my feed reader. I just love when it show up as I have a great show to listen while commuting.
2nd Mercurial.
Just blogged about AppIgnite and I haven’t even seen it yet …Premature? Perhaps. …Excited? Definitely! Plus a nice plug for Techzing. Let’s get on with the next round of AppIgnite Alpha testing! http://bit.ly/bhL0a3
@Ecaradec – Thanks for the kudos! 🙂
@Neville Thanks so much for the awesome blog post! I guess I should get an email collector up on the AppIgnite home page in case people drop by to check it out. 😉
@Ecaradec You’re very welcome! We love doing the show and hearing that people actually enjoy listening makes even more fun.
@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh You do know that’s not quite what I meant, right? 😉 I just meant that a formal version control system hasn’t been absolutely required in my case since I would make a back-up copy of the source directory every day. It’s not that I’m advocating that anyone do it that way, it’s just me being honest about my own laziness. 😉 That said, I’m really liking Subversion.
Now as far as Mercurial goes, I think I need to just take it one step at a time and get used to using Subversion first doing anything crazy. Moving to a distributed version control system at this point would probably be too much change in too short a period of time. I’d probably end up giving myself the bends! 😉
Anyway, I always look forward to your comments, BAMS. 😉
@Jason, you’re going to love this: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/stanton-friedman-a-scientist-searches-for-the-truth-of-ufos/19503350?sms_ss=digg
@Alex Gemmell Cool! I can’t wait to check it out. Thanks for the link.
@Alex Gemmell
@Jason
Gordon Cooper, astronaut, test pilot on an armada of UFOs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc
@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh
@Alex Gemmell
Here are three more videos of astronauts discussing the subject:
* NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell on UFOs at Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO66afmxWKA&feature=fvw
* NASA Astronaut Joseph Walker on UFO Sighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8deyx3xlXCY
* Aliens Exist says NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfvhdmhQy4&feature=related
I like to replace statements about UFOs with statements about God to see if they can pass the smell test. Many people believe in God so you have to see if their belief in UFOs is similar. Like Carl Sagan said in Demon Haunted World. (he didn’t believe in UFOs)
From the wikipedia: When Aldrin appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO sighting. Aldrin confirmed that there was no such sighting of anything deemed extraterrestrial, and said they were and are “99.9 percent” sure that the object was the detached panel.
Too bad 🙂
@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh
@Alex Gemmell
By the way, here’s a great Richard Dolan video. Skip ahead to 12:15 – the guy takes forever introducing him. Tell me it wouldn’t be awesome to have him on as a guest! 😉
* XCon 2005 – Richard Dolan – How UFO Secrecy Has Damaged American Society
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9175247719246424483#
Techzing = The New Xfiles
Call it TechXing 😛
OMG for a show segment sounds awesome. You gotta do it 😀
I’m a design/css guy and I just learned how to use Git (yeah for me!). I feel that’s somewhat of an accomplishment for a non-programmer.
Before that, I would edit the html/css/images, send the files to the programer, who would put in repository and deploy. Very inefficient.
I’m wondering how other design/programmers work together. Does your designer use Git/Subversion? If not, what’s your process?
Jason check out project hoshimi, which is part of imagine cup. in this competition you create your ai algorithm and submit it and it will compete against other people algorithms.
STARTUPS AND ALIENS
@Ayoub MAZA That’s very cool. I printed out some stuff about the project, but I didn’t have a chance to read it before this weekend’s podcast. I’ll try to bring it up in next week’s show.
@Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh Yeah, no shit! 😉 Or, maybe … The Tech Files.
Tech Files works for me!