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TechZing 60 – Peter Cooper & Coder I/O

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:40 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Peter Cooper about how he started and sold Code Snippets and FeedDigest (now Feed Informer) and what he learned in the process, why he prefers to work on multiple projects and why he’ll give up on a project if it doesn’t show traction early, the story and technology behind Coder I/O and his strategy going forward, why he uses a rules engine for tagging posts and the possibility of augmenting it with a Bayes classifier, how he accumulated over ten-thousand points on Hacker News, why he was approached by Apress to write Beginning Ruby, the reasons for his upcoming tour of California and why he’s starting a video blog.

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TechZing 57 – Justin Wants To Be A Robot

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:55:41 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the status of the Swarm SG AI, ideas for increasing the TechZing listener base and why they’re launching a mailing list, whether or not Jason should buy a Mac, the need to improve the design of the TechZing website, potential names for Jason’s new blog, whether advice offered by 37 Signals is relevant, Jason’s thoughts on applying to TechCrunch Disrupt, coder.io as an alternative to Hacker News, Justin’s desire for telepresence, balancing pragmatism with thinking big, the physical consequences of sitting all day and not getting enough sunlight and whether Justin is replacing fat with muscle or vice versa.

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Techzing 46 – Vampire Universe

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:51:20 +0000

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.

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Techzing 40 – AppIgnite Revealed

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:16:53 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the re-branding of Tweetminer as Pluggio, how Justin learns from the show’s guests, the effectiveness of communicating with your users via email, whether or not Justin should raise funding for Pluggio, Jason’s secret project – AppIgnite, the mother of all demos, how Hacker News almost blew a gasket over the iPhone SDK 4.0 TOS, Strategy Letter V – commoditizing your complements, Justin’s new game – Swarm, and Jason’s idea for a massively multi-player, browser-based AI strategy game.

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Techzing 32 – Think Like an Entrepreneur

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:38 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss how many subscribers Techzing has vs StackOverflow, the awesomeness of PrintFriendly.com, TweetMiner’s growth potential based on HootSuite’s 400K user base, whether Justin should work on his secret project or TweetMiner, Techzing as a public masterminding session, how Jason’s brother saved a soldier’s life in Afghanistan, HipHop (HPHP) and the trend towards compiling scripting languages, migrating to a VPS (virtual private server), why ChatRoulette has been such a big deal on Hacker News, building towards financial independence with bookmakers, the advantages of juggling multiple consulting projects, how the fun is in the doing, Jason Cohen’s article on sunk costs and Justin’s love of food.

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techZING! 25 – Minimalism

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:57:15 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the cost of a poor customer service experience, TweetMiner on Hacker News, using PayPal’s reference transaction ID for repeat transactions, Jason’s cross platform messaging library, making code open source, test driven development and exploratory programming, weekend productivity, learning calculus in 2 1/2 hours, minimalism in life and in code, teaming up with developers and designers on BuildItWith.me, and why you should make it work and make it pretty before making it fast.

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techZING! 6 – Justin Loves Hacker News. Feeling Not Mutual.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:20:25 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s negative karma on Hacker News, black swans, startup equity negotiations and the Ukrainian project.

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