If you bought another mac Justin, which would you get, what would you change about your previous selection?

btw, awesome job on getting the diet under control. Good thing you caught it in time!

On the topic of the podcast, although I like the sound of Hacker Radio, I am now starting to think that it will be tough to make it work. HPR vs HR will be confusing now that HPR is live. And I am still unsure about the appeal for “Hacker” despite the success of HN. I feel that having the word “startup” in the name is quite important. Too bad Startup Radio is already taken. How about Tech Startup Radio? Or some variation on that?

I am already queue-ing up the next show for this week-end. Can’t wait to listen to it!

Remembering when I was hovering over
onomatopoeia.com – still kicking self.

@Felix – nice! Now that takes techzing into the ultra quirky domain 😉

It’s funny that when you mentioned about it, Startups and Aliens pops up into my mind and I had the impression that the logo may look something like this:

Well, one of the problems for people like us is we often let physical and emotional development fall by the wayside in pursuit of our coding highs. Hacker Health may not be a bad idea for a new podcast. Imagine all the sponsorships you could get 🙂

All those guys that are “throwing weights around” are not lifting correctly.
They are using momentum instead of muscle to move the weight. HUGE pet peeve of mine. I am ELATED to hear your intructor has your movements slow and controlled.
The higher reps with a lower weight are to burn fat.
You are learning good form and are getting the maximum benefits from your workouts.
Plus, is safer to lift correctly.
Dan Defelippi was spot on about muscle gain.

Great show guys, and I know the health conversation was a tangent, but I appreciated hearing it covered because it DOES apply to the lifestyle.

That said, I think Justin is on the right path and should be proud of himself for the progress he’s made so far. I just hope that if he doesn’t see at least some weight loss over the next couple of weeks (making it a total of 8 weeks of training) that he makes the necessary adjustment to either increase the length, intensity or frequency of his workouts or reduce his caloric intake, or both.

Also here’s an interesting article regarding “recomp” http://leanbodiesconsulting.com/faq/Simultaneous+Fat+Loss+&+Muscle+Gain

@Jason, when you’re new to working out you absolutely will lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. It’s (unscientifically) called recomp, newbie gains, and plenty of other things. The plateau is when these gains slow down from your body adjusting to working out. It then becomes much harder to gain muscle mass.

Weight loss is NOT what you should ever focus on. Fat loss is what’s important. Fat loss is simple math: calories in – calories out.

Also I think people overestimate how much work it takes to market a horizontal product. Marketing is like going to the gym. You have to do it 30-40 minutes every day and it will become a habit. After 6-8 month you’ll get much better at it 😉 Plus if you have large enough customer base in a horizontal market you can leverage it for your next product. Doesn’t really work with vertical markets, having lumberjack software won’t help you with selling to teachers for example.

PS. Justin, Pluggio might be a niche product but it targets a horizontal market. Vertical market usually refers to a single industry/profession/hobby.

I think you could come up with a few more names for the show, but even more ideas of how to get the word out. Get links to the show on sites where your audience is spending time trying to get their ideas off the ground. I listened to the ChangeLog because i found their show while browsing projects on GitHub. ‘Versioning’ their show was a great gimmick. I’ve only listened to a few other shows like that, but none of them had the same repertoire, quick to-the-point intro/outro, and diversity of guests and topics.

Keep up the great work!

If I understand correctly your target audience is more about entrepreneurs that want to launch their products than people that want to “hack”. For example I was aware of hacker news and ycombinator for a while but not until I heard on your show about all the good stuff that sometimes is posted in hacker news I didn’t automatically think of hacker news as something for entrepreneurs. My fault of course but I wonder how many people have not put too much attention to that area of the site just for the title.

Maybe, you are one of the exceptions that can turn around a term such as “hacker” and make think people think about a blog that discusses a broad number of subjects besides someone trying to do “hacking”.

In regards to the theme for your site, may I suggest woothemes? There is a similar company that sells very professional wordpress themes for less than $100. But personally I believe that if eventually you want to stand out from the pack you need a custom theme that is unique to your podcast.

Finally, there is a misconception that with a laptop you suffer of real state but let me tell you that this is not the case all the time. I bought my first laptop 8 years ago and never turned back. Laptops give you so much flexibility. Granted you may not travel much but if you eventually start to do so you can put your laptop and you are free. Back to the real state issue. My latest Mac book pro comes with a high definition 17″ display that gives me even more pixels than a standard screen. Attach that to an external 32″ monitor and you have enough room to play around, if that is not enough you can buy a component that allows you to connect up to 2 monitors to your laptop.

Anyways, I personally enjoy your show and look forward to the next edition. Just no more ET stuff please! :).

Sorry for the grammatical errors. Hard to make corrections on mobile devices.

Phew, I’m safe there.

So, what do you think when considering the existence of HPR?

Read this:
“If you’re a hacker, you’ll probably like our show ;)”

I would say to jump on the “hacker” term bandwagon before someone else will try too grab it in the podcast space. Seriously ;). Just a suggestion based on yours previous discussion with Justin when you considered the “hacker radio” name . When I heard it, first what came to my mind was, that’s a really cool name for the podcast.

By the way, for anyone who might happen to read this comment, I’d appreciate any feedback you’d be willing to provide on this topic.

Uncanny valley – that’s right! I used to know that, but I couldn’t think of it off the top of my head. Justin and I don’t share topics before the shows, so it can be difficult to remember the names of things on the spot. I know I suck at it. 😉 Anyway, thanks for posting the link.