188: TZ Interview – Wayne Graham / Facebook Game Development

Jason speaks with Wayne Graham, author of Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development about the process, technical issues and tradeoffs of developing games for the Facebook platform. Following are some links discussed in the show: Open Source Game Engines: CAAT: http://hyperandroid.github.com/CAAT/ Crafty: http://craftyjs.com/ LimeJS: http://www.limejs.com/ MelonJS: http://www.melonjs.org/ Commercial Game Engines: Isogenic: http://www.isogenicengine.com/ ImpactJS: http://impactjs.com/ Comprehensive List of Game Engines: https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines...
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187: TZ Discussion – An Equation for Evil

Justin and Jason talk about the latest with Pluggio, the dangers of starting with a free service and the Google nuclear winter, the irregularities with the Facebook IPO, CashBase and the personal finance market, the effect of Elon Musk's success with SpaceX and what sets him apart, the power of balancing relentless optimism with...
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186: TZ Discussion – Getting Big Stuff Done

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming move back to LA, an update on Appignite, avoiding depression while not running a $1B company, the new Pluggio UI and why some existing customers don't like it, Company 52's new focus, Jason's thoughts on Steve Job's biography, the new interview format, how Jason bought...
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185: TZ Interview – James Thomas / Headlands Technologies

Jason speaks with James Thomas, Director of Research for Headlands Technologies, LLC, about the business of high-frequency trading....
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184: TZ Discussion – Down the Memory Hole

Justin and Jason discuss their experiences at MicroConf and the Rock Rock Hotel, Justin's new focus on being focused, the Atlantic's article about Justin's Yelp nightmare, how Light Table raised $200k and Brydge raised 500k via Kickstarter, why Justin believes Kickstarter is the future of seed funding and should be called "kickstrapping", why Jason and...
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183: TZ Interview – Jason Cohen / WP Engine

Justin and Jason talk with Jason Cohen about his latest startup, WP Engine....
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182: TZ Interview – Matt Konda / Application Security

Justin and Jason talk with application security expert, Matt Konda, about how to harden web applications against common attacks, tools that can help locate vulnerabilities and his new security startup, Jemurai....
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181: TZ Discussion – When a Model is Just a Model

Justin's upcoming post about the Yelp review filtering system, the new version of Pluggio, looking forward to MicroConf, Freeman Dyson and his global warming heresy, a La Critique of RootBuzz, more thoughts on simulating the zombie apocalypse, island economics and the danger of extreme wealth inequality, TBTF banks and thoughts on...
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180: TZ Discussion – Simulating the Zombie Apocalypse

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is moving back to LA, how he was swindled by a moving company and why the Yelp review system is partly to blame, how people are able to rationalize bad behavior by the creation of false narratives, how the US, Israel, Russia and China are influencing social...
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179: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Blowing Up DuckDuckGo

Justin and Jason talk in depth with Gabriel Weinberg about how he raised $3 million in venture capital for DuckDuckGo and how user growth has turned hockey stick....
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