TechZing

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261: TZ Discussion - Project Superhero Jun 25, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, Jason's weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit, the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how an article by Jason's brother Jay was listed as one of The Atlantic’s top pieces of journalism, a little bit about the TechZing Summit, Lucid Dreaming, the Pasadena App Academy, how MIT flipped their physics classes, how Netflix is creating original content like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, what makes Silicon Valley so damn funny, the Weissman Score, the Facebook outage, how US Marshals accidentally Replied All to a list of anonymous bitcoin auction bidders, why it may be time for a hard Bitcoin fork, how Colby is writing a RobotC tutorial for the Mill Valley Code Club and Jason's expected-value argument against teaching a rigorous, proof-oriented Calculus to high school students and non-math majors.

Executive Producer: Ben Boyter

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260: TZ Discussion - Going Angel Jun 12, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason's first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason's new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire, some details on the TechZing Summit, whether it's harmful to let young kids use iPads, how Jason spent his youth fighting BB-gun wars, shooting tennis ball cannons and juggling burning tennis balls, Justin and Georgie's plans for a natural childbirth,how zapping your brain with gamma waves can induce lucid dreaming, the possibility of interviewing the founder of AirPair, why Jason wouldn't consider himself an expert in Titanium (or just about anything else for that matter), why it's hard to give time estimates when developing software, what makes hell banning a pain to implement, why Internet bullying is the result of people not having any “skin in the game”, the promise-payoff matrix, Uber’s $1.4B raise,how the ridiculous Bitcoin predictions of Mark T. Williams have (predictably) been proven wrong, the difficulty of decoupling emotion from investing, the untraceability of DarkCoin and ideas on how to trade all of the new cryptocurrencies, how it's now possible to build a complete mobile platform on .NET using Xamarin and EC2, why having more developers slows down development and the latest progress on Digedu's "No DB" implementation.

259: TZ Discussion - Riding a Rocket Ship Jun 03, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit, the last session of Catalyst, Uber’s new office and Jason's thoughts on Uber’s rapid growth, Justin's "no DB" project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason's experience with AirPair and why you should never do a fixed-bid project, shutting down AnyFu and some lessons learned about premature scaling, the latest on Empath and Disco, Vagrant, RabbitMQ and Composer, Justin's DIY Soylent experiment and the problem with Soylent's distribution strategy, Jason's recap of a year spent coaching the 4th-grade math team, the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Justin's idea for an ancestor constitution, how Occam’s razor is a statistical syllogism and thus a logical fallacy, why people who write their names with initials seem smarter, Jason's frustration with how mathematicians dismiss any mathematics that isn't about proving theorems, and Izzy's struggle with self-confidence.

258: TZ Discussion - A Sunday Evening with Justin and Jason May 08, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss Jason's night with the "Korean billionaires", the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin's excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he's working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mark Cuban on high-frequency trading, Jason's phone call with Mark Groton and the subsequent Gawker leak, Empath and Jason's YCombinator interview, the latest evidence debunking Washington's claim about the Syrian sarin attack, and the possibility of hosting a TechZing summit.

257: TZ Discussion - It's the Blockchain, Stupid! Apr 05, 2014

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Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben's investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts f ound that Mt.Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability, pending comments on Hacker News, Justin's new meme – "The Iceberg Strategy", Jason's trick for scrambling his own memories, why Notch has canceled talks with Oculus Rift, the upcoming Math Field Day, Jason's idea for a math TCG (trading card game), why it’s okay to work on small problems, and the future of the show.

256: TZ Interview – Nathan Hawkins / Conjure Mar 27, 2014

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Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure, what it took to create it and how they're bringing it to market.

255: TZ Discussion - Will the Real Satoshi Nakamoto Please Stand Up Mar 12, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss why the show has been on a mini hiatus, the Spritz speedreading technology and the open source bookmarklet, Justin's Catalyst experiment, the face behind Bitcoin, the denial and some confirmations by Los Angeles County deputies, what most likely happened at Mt Gox, autotrading crypto-currencies at Cryptotrader, the death of AnyFu, why Justin likes the idea of being an older dad, the latest at Digedu and what Jason is working on at Uber, the Tesla Gigafactory, Justin's losing cryptocurrency investments, Peter Thiel’s talk at last year's SXSW, teaching George Pólya’s problem solving heuristics to the math team, why Nick Bostrom thinks humans could become extinct and the television shows True Detective and Almost Human.

254: TZ Discussion - The New Man Plan Feb 11, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss why they're not going to change the name of the show, the unpaid bill that launched a thousand starships, the cryptography breakthrough that could make software unhackable, how GoPro is going public, Russia’s banning of Bitcoin, China’s large scale 3D printers, the breakthrough bionic hand that restores an amputee’s sense of touch, the latest on the math team, how Colby is socially distractible in the same way that Jason is, the news that Justin and Georgie are expecting, why so many projects seem to come to Jason and his upcoming meeting with a couple of billionaire investors, the math tutor who claims to be able to advance gifted kids from arithmetic through Calculus in 2 years and the guy who taught his 7-year old Calculus, the new Snowden interview that has been ignored by the major media, achieving a form of immortality with Eterni.me and whether Solyent is ever going to deliver.

253: TZ Discussion - Kidmail Jan 30, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, how Uber's real-time team uses Github, the growth of Uber's engineering team and what Jason has been working on, building software that never gets used and the three criteria by which to evaluate a job, the two most unrealistic aspects of the TV show 24, Jason's latest trip to SF and why he doesn't like to spend money, math team madness, Jason's idea for how to share information within a large engineering department, how Tesla has completed it’s L.A.-to-New York charger network, the Bitcoin exchange arrests, how Jason finally got an email reply from that HFT firm, how Richard Feynman became such a great problem solver, how Digedu is moving from the Allman coding style to the K&R coding style, how Starmade has taught Colby the importance of prototyping, avoiding premature optimization and how to manage expectations, the animated TV series Star Blazers, the guy who offered Jason $300 for a link to his algorithmic trading website, the “good guy” discount, how the NSA and GCHQ are now targeting mobile apps, the Tor developer who may have become the first known victim of the NSA’s laptop interception program, how the FBI probably owns your TorMail inbox and how the UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update for having ‘sex’ in file name.

252: TZ Discussion - Super Accelerated Jan 20, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, Quizlet’s incredible feedback center, the PHP logging extension Datadog, the realtime dashboard that Jason built for Uber, why hackers haven't been more creative in the types of targets they've gone after, when it makes more sense to buy TV shows than to it does to just watch them for free and sit through the commercials, the TV show Blacklist and how the actor James Spader makes it worth watching, how Justin has started watching The Walking Dead, the upcoming spinoff series and the comic book, Jason's secret plan for super accelerating the 4th-grade math team and the online math drilling websites AdaptedMind and iXL, why it can be advantageous to push kids to master advanced math at an earlier age, Dropbox’s $10 billion valuation and reasons why the startup succeeded where others failed, Google's moonshot projects, how value is created by doing, MicroConf, how Jason's purchase of his remaining Uber options wiped out his family's savings, how a $100 worth of Litecoin a year ago is worth $30,000 today, understanding the altcoin markets, why it's important to always remain liquid, why Justin is calling peak Dogecoin, Proof Market, mutual companies and whether the concept could be applied to websites dependent on user generated content, how the NSA has devised a radio pathway into computers that aren’t connected to the Internet, how Jason has gone retro with Java and is loving it, the IntelliJ IDE and the DropWizard framework, an AnyFu update, the Catalyst game development strategy, the importance of energetic execution and complementary teammates, and why you must always remain cognizant of your enthusiasm half-life.

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