TechZing

Justin and Jason discuss their Thanksgiving holidays, how Jason stopped by a Tesla SuperCharger station, Elon Musk's talks at Oxford, the National Press Club and Pando Monthly, various diversification strategies and the idea of putting more money into AnyFu, investing in yourself versus investing in others, Jason's zombie killing strategies, how Megaupload got screwed, Justin'sarticle on his Splitsville app, Jason's love / hate relationship with Titanium, whether a developer can be trained in three months, the tradeoffs of building challenges into the Catalyst IDE, how to speed up a slow Mac and Justin's recommended backup strategies.

Justin and Jason talk about why taking multiple shorter vacations is usually better than taking one long vacation, Justin's plans to create an Udemy course, the latest on Catalyst, Colby's madness, Justin's personal training sessions, how to choose health insurance, the GOP's flip flop on copyright, Romney's IT fail, Nate Silver's prediction methodology, the Obama campaign's analytics team, the programming games Check iO and RoboNode, how Tesla won Motor Trend Car of the Year, the variance in home prices across the country, whether programming can be commoditized and why it's important to make a name for yourself, Hailo Cab vs Uber, the Uber profiler Clouseau and the dividends it's paid for scaling Uber's dispatching system, the science fiction web series H+ and Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the TV series The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, how sixteen Fisker Karma's blew up because of Hurricane Sandy, why Jason wants to buy the Model S, how $75,000 is the happiness tipping point, how Pluggio is the little engine that could, and hints about Justin's next project.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's trip to Ireland and the UK and Rob Walling's visit to Pasadena, the latest version of the Catalyst IDE and the power of gamification, AppFog's free plan for Node.js, ActivityHero and the potential future of Catalyst Academy, Justin's thoughts on hiring for experience, how Justin resolved Pluggio's cascading query problem, Jason's idea for an Uber prize and scaling Uber's Node.js-based dispatching system, why you should CallTheseGuys.com if you need a website built, how computer science graduates are the least employable in the UK, how SpaceX completed the first delivery trip to the International Space Station and the Tesla Model S was voted car of year, the History Channel's show The Men Who Built America, Jason's investment strategy for 2013, and why Justin and Jason are both long Rob Walling.

Justin and Jason discuss how to make progress when you have too much to do, an update on running the audio job board, hiring someone to keep you on task and tricks to reduce the cost of context switching, why Jason thinks Justin will regret taking a three-week trip to Europe, the latest on Catalyst Coder (the in-browser educational IDE), Justin's domino method of teaching and the nightmare of explaining the for loop, some hacks for simplifying Javascript and the possibility of writing a new language called "KidScript" that transcompiles to Javascript, new stylistic conventions in Node.js, the idea of creating coding games and a simplified graphics library for Catalyst Coder, tracking who bought your politician, exposing messaged economic models ShadowStats, how the returns of angel investors are better than previously thought, why PC obsolescence is obsolete, the best way to find aliens, Nikola Tesla, his patents and his Tower of Power, why the possibility of being in a simulation is driving Justin crazy, what's realistic and what's not about aircraft carriers in space and how the modern carriers are sitting ducks, how Tesla's Supercharger network has gone live in six California towns, the rise of the rocketship school, setting up an AnyFu Paypal account and what's going to happen with the show while Justin is in Europe.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's approach to developing HTML5 apps that feel truly native, how Titanium finally fixed the build bug for iOS6 devices, more on the Titanium license issue, the first paid job advertisement (Java API developer at Uber Media), the effect of moving Catalyst to a new space and the browser-based IDE that Jason is building for the class, setting up a Node.js application on AppFog, resolving payment issues on AnyFu and using PayPal as a payout option, how to determine if reality is merely a computer simulation, Jason's iPad information workflow - Browser / HackerNode => Instapaper => Pinboard / Evernote, why the first laptop had such a hard time catching on, the mysterious book Jason received in the mail (Axiomatic - Greg Egan), and some of their favorite movies.

Justin and Jason talk about time management and focus, what Jason likes about the iPad, programming using Codea and Lua, managing information using Instapper, Pinboard and Evernote, Colby's soccer resurgence, why Jason is selling Facebook and buying Tesla and Tesla's plans for a supercharger network, the recent growth of the show and the idea of bringing in revenue via job advertisements, Jason's LinkedIn debacle, what happens when $$ meets Hacker News, better learning tools and a better space for Catalyst, learning bioinformations through problem solving on Rosalind, inconsistant complaining about the science of science fiction movies, and using a worker queue to process a large number of emails.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's new iPad and his old MacBook Pro, the costs and limitations of Titanium's licensing plans and the surrounding controversy, a post-mortem of the third Catalyst session, KidsRuby, and the idea of creating a DragonBox inspired Catalyst coding game, the status of Appignite, Justin's $$ Javascript framework, "The Madness", the progress being made on SkyBoard and some potential revenue models, the movie Looper, how California has passed a law allowing for the testing of self-driving cars on public roads, how Blizzard was head-faked into creating a better StartCraft, the recent growth of the podcast, how everyone who attended OWS with a cell phone had their identity logged and the Apple patent that describes remotely disabling protesters' phone cameras, the Uber Javascript profiler to be named Clouseau, the superiority of the Singapore Math curriculum and the ThinkMath Foundation, the power of keeping a Spark File and of storing your notes in a BATF (big ass text file), Jason's overloaded schedule, Colby's football future, the awesome new hover bike that you'll never get to ride, and why Justin never wears shorts.

Justin and Jason talk about the latest progress on AnyFu, the new Catalyst volunteer CJ Winslow and lessons learned from the most recent session, Justin's new version of SkyBoard and how he built it using his new Javascript framework $$, the idea of creating a programming game in the style of DragonBox, their recent outing to a Richard Dolan talk, how Jason is getting back into watching Battlestar Galactica and why warp drive may be more feasible than previously thought, how Jason needs to buy a new printer, using Redis at Uber, the tradeoffs of storing schema-less JSON data, and why you shouldn't believe the hype about Iran conducting cyberwar on the U.S..

Justin and Jason discuss meeting AnyFu all-stars Joanna Wiebe and Lance Jones, the eBook that Jason thinks Justin should write, the lessons Jason wants to teach his kids, principles of negotiation, why kids have to learn things the hard way, a post-mortem on the first Catalyst session and what Jason has planned for the second, Rob Walling's advice on buying apps and websites, Justin's new $$ Javascript framework and what it takes for an open source project to take off, how the NSA is recruiting hackers and the AT&T tech who blew the whistle on the NSA's domestic eavesdropping program back in 2006, why Jason thinks Justin would make more money if he marketed himself as an on-demand CTO, how Jason's father-in-law mistakenly deleted every recording on their DVR, the results of Colby's academic standards test and what is says about his personality, the story of Wordspoke.me, why Jason likes Titanium, how Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook et al. are forming a powerful U.S. lobby called the Internet Association, how NOT to recruit top technical talent, the bacteria that was discovered eating plastic in the Sargasso Sea, AnyFu's true market and why the experts charge so much, and how scientists bioengineered an artificial esophagus.

Justin and Jason talk to Corey Maass, founder of personal expense tracker, The Birdy.

Justin and Jason discuss how much time they spend on the podcast, Justin's thoughts on becoming a multi-product entrepreneur, Seth Godin's book - The Dip, how much time should be devoted to consulting vs. working on a side business, potential email strategies for recruiting experts, building an email reminder system for AnyFu, problems with the donation model, the Node.js profiler that Jason and Guyon built for Uber, the misleading CNN article about why we need a longer school year and the other side of the story, Justin's idea for creating an ego depletion meter, the challenges of scheduling the first Catalyst Academy session, the Mathigon mathematics education project, how Oracle is moving MySQL towards the closed-source model, why Reddit only has two MySQL Tables - Thing and Data, Jason's idea for doing lazy schema migrations, why Uber is moving from MySQL to ProstgreSQL (PostGIS), how self-driving cars were just approved by the California legislature and the rise of drones, the free diving world records, why there is no American Ninja Warrior, why Darpa thinks the future of computing is analog, HP and Hynix's one-year delay on memristors, how the Flynn Effect isn't about people getting smarter, how the New York Times has been colluding with the CIA to boost Obama's reelection chances, how the spyware known as FinFisher can take over your mobile device, the Pirate Bay founder who was arrested in Cambodia, how the U.S. is probably using Sweden to get at Julian Assange, and finally how Obama's justice department has granted final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers.

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason is sad about Colby quitting club soccer, scaling Node.js to a million concurrent connections and how Redis is used at Uber, what it's like working at UberMedia and Idealab, how Sandy is helping out with AnyFu, ideas on how to share customer support responsibilities, why Justin is frustrated with Pluggio and what Jason thinks he should do about it, the upstart success of Jason's iPad fund and why Justin wants to raise money for audio software, building iPhone apps with Visual Studio and JyOS, the panic over Fukushima and how uranium extracted from the ocean could power the human race until 5000AD, Justin's update on intermittent fasting, recruiting kids for Catalyst, RoboRally and learning to program by training a robot, how your brain can be hacked, the high performance PHP framework Phalcon PHP, how Coursera is introducing an honor code in an attempt to reduce cheating, how Twitter is slitting their own throat, individualist and collectivist coding and why quality happens when someone is responsible for it, the problem of sorting out who owns what when signing IP contracts, speculating on whether Buffer was influenced by Pluggio, and how Rob Walling was quoted in a New York Times article.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's experiments with intermittent fasting, the latest on AnyFu, Justin's call for an open Twitter, how to be a math or science rockstar, why the singularity is not coming, sci-fi predictions from 1987, storing 700 terabytes of data in a single gram of DNA, Jason's thoughts on learning synthetic biology and the GenoCon competition, Jason's teaching strategy for Catalyst and why he thinks Python will be a better learning language than Chipmunk Basic, Justin's new Galaxy Nexus 7, how Google's self-driving car is going to change everything, why WebRTC wil change the web, TrapWire and the new totalitarianism of surveillance technology, and the efficacy of using loss aversion to improve teacher performance.

Justin and Jason talk about the response to the wives show, Justin's new life in Pasadena and his new contract at UberMedia, how Jason is going to spend his half of the podcast donation money, the latest on Jason's math and science academy - Catalyst, why Justin is excited about intermittent fasting, the recent scientific reversals on salt, sitting posture, positive thinking and fluoride, why Justin wants to pay Jason to work on AnyFu, deploying real-time systems code at Uber, how Justin moved Pluggio to a Rackspace Cloud Database and why he thinks growing Pluggio's revenue is so difficult, whether App.net has any chance of disrupting Twitter, engineering bacteria to survive on Mars, the discovery of the Gauss cyber weapon, why Algebra isn't necessary, why Jason thinks most textbooks are inefficient, and the stark contrast between electronics hobbyist books and introductory electrical engineering books.

Jason speaks with Scott Young, creator of the online course Learn More, Study Less, about his effort to master the entire 4-year MIT computer science curriculum in only 12 months.

In this wives tell-all episode, Georgie Wisen-Vincent, Sandy Roberts and Sherry Walling give their respective views on what it's like being married to a technology entrepreneur.

Justin and Jason speak with Matin Tamizi, founder and CEO of Balanced, about the opportunity and challenges of building a payments system for marketplaces.

Justin and Jason discuss the psychological impact of getting out of debt, the Gabriel Method and the Paleo Diet, the mystery boom, whether the freemium model will work for Pluggio, Justin's entrepreneurial ups and downs, whether Pluggio is fundable, the pros and cons of red ocean and blue ocean strategies, the first episode of Divergence, the terrifying background of the man who ran a CIA assassination unit, how the super-rich are hiding at least $21 trillion in offshore tax havens, whether the Colorado shooter was crazy and the sociological impact of the event, the Russian research project that offers 'immortality' to billionaires, planning for episode 200, why Jason decided against taking the Coursera course Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation, Scott Young's MIT Challenge and the possibility of replicating an undergraduate education with only online courses, the negative network effect of having a college degree, and Colby's enthusiasm for learning electronics.

Jason talks with Peter Stone, director of the Learning Agents Research Group at UT Austin, whose team, UT Austin Villa, won both the standard platform league and the 3D simulation league of the RoboCup 2012 competition. They discuss why robot soccer is a good motivating application domain for machine learning, how the RoboCup competition got started and the kinds of teams that participate, the offshoot competition RoboCup Jr, why the machine learning technique known as reinforcement learning works so well in complex, dynamic environments, the role played by game theory in multiagents systems, Peter's involvement in developing autonomous driving vehicles and what it's like to run an artificial intelligence laboratory.

Jason interviews Omri Drory, founder and CEO of Genome Compiler Corporation, about how they're aiming to build the AutoCAD of synthetic biology.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's move to Pasadena, whether you can fake being a nice guy, how John Humphrey reserved the domain AnyFoo.com and donated it to J&J, thoughts on the Pluggio pitch deck, an update on AnyFu, selling the Preezo codebase, the Udacity experiment, the apology to Elon Musk, the books A Life Decoded and Turing's Cathedral, Justin's tentative workout plan, the money-empathy gap, Jason's request that Cathal Garvey write a Make style biohacking book and teach a Udacity course on synthetic biology, Jason's idea for a TV show called Resurrection, Jason's strategy for teaching Algebra to his his 7-year old son Colby, determining your enthusiasm half-life, planning for a wives "tell-all" interview show, the possibility of fan-funding new and canceled TV shows, and the dream of getting Elon Musk as an interview guest.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming move back to LA, how Justin got his wife Georgie to do the voice over for some Pluggio instructional videos, why Justin is putting Pluggio on AngelList, Guyon's recent visit to LA, why Jason is holding office hours with Pat Maddox at Coloft, why there are going to be two back-to-back interviews on synthetic biology, the upcoming interview with machining learning expert and RoboCup champion Peter Stone, Jason's plan for teaching electronics to his son Colby and his strategy for bootstrapping a math and science academy, Google+ vs Twitter, how the EFF is taking up the patent fight with Defend Innovation, the cognitive overload of having a lot of browser tabs open, and Jason's surprising connections to Jeff Dean, John Conway, Sarah Brown and Amy Jo Johnson.

Jason interviews Cathal Garvey about the exciting new field of synthetic biology, its amateur cousin DIYbio and his new startup, Glowbiotics.

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason missed Rob Walling's text message, the hiccups and challenges of the Pluggio mass emailing and why Pluggio is probably competing with HootSuite despite Justin being in denial about it, moving the AnyFu payment system to Balanced, why Ben Reyes needs to settle on a name, why Justin "needs" to tabulate the show's donations, how Jason is using DragonBox to teach algebra to his 7-year old son Colby, using projects and games as teaching tools for math and science, the rise of Google+ and why power Twitter users are rooting against it, Orrick LLP's documents, how SocialWOD reduced their cancellation rate by 87.5%, the 14-year old who was hit by a meteorite, the incredible size of galaxies, the Science Channel show Through the Wormhole and the theory that a black hole gives birth to a new universe, the surprisingly effective method of first mastering a new technique and then seeking out formerly difficult problems that will yield easily to it, Jason's idea of resolution-based learning, Kurt Vonneguts's advice to start as close to the end as possible and how that can be applied to teaching, Jason's drive to learn genome hacking and why he believes it might be possible to do without years of formal education.

Justin and Jason discuss why Iron Man is the ultimate geek super hero, the positive user feedback about Justin's recent solo interview and Jason's concept for a math and science academy, interfacing .NET with a Win32 DLL, the latest progress on AnyFu, Jason's HN comment that received 75 up-votes and no replies, rbutr - an application that allows people to follow inter-website debates, Jason's idea on how to merge spaced learning with the workgroup style learning being experimented with at MIT, the two Kickstarter projects that Justin has donated to, the latest on Pluggio, Justin's movie marathon, why Michael Lewis believes that luck is a bigger part of the equation than most successful people like to admit, the rise of synthetic biology and the bio-hacking movement, the federal judges who spiked the Apple-Google case (calling the patent system “dysfunctional”) and ruled that indefinite detention of Americans is unconstitutional and a critique of the movie Prometheus.

Justin talks to Ted Pitts & Harry Hollander about how they bootstrapped Moraware.com to more than $1m revenue.

Justin and Jason discuss the lastest with Pluggio and the power of the discount, the prospect of using Kickstarter to finance cancelled TV shows, political campaigns and even for paying off the national debt, why Justin should hurry up and write the definitive "kickstrapping" blog post, why you shouldn't discuss your startup name in a cafe, Craig Venter’s synthetic organisms, the Yale scientist who discovered a Fungus that eats plastic and the 16-year old kid who discovered a microbe that does the same, Jason's idea for using genetically altered sea algae to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, experiments that hint of longer lives, why no one under the age of thirty seems to know how to write desktop applications, using APIfy to turn any website into an API, estimating tasks and making progress on AnyFu, how Lance Jones got AnyFu clients through a blog post, Justin's desire to efficiently auto-generate documentation from PHP source code, Jason's idea for the ultimate math and science academy, the power of "spaced learning" and it's relation to "spaced repetition" (the SuperMemo algorithm), how memories can be erased and a few tricks to improve your retention.

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

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 brutal self-awareness, the against all odds story of Jimmy Conrad, how an e-paper watch raised over $10 million on KickStarter, how Jason is learning electronics so he can teach it to his son, the power of spending a fixed amount of time per day on a project, Jason's idea for a virtual standup web app, how Germany set a new solar power record, the overwhelming size of the universe and the powerful new telescope to be located in South Africa, Australia, the self-driving Google car and why the future of space is going to be robotic, the CDC on preparing for a zombie apocalypse, whether HFT, or most startups for that matter, have any real social value, Jason's equation for measuring evil, a proposed amendment to lift the ban on government propaganda, the Internet Bat Signal, the Citizens United verdict and the power wielded by Super PACs, the new patent troll, Rockstar Consortium and why Justin donated $25 to a human powered helicopter project.

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 some Facebook shares, Mesh01's upcoming design competition for a "luck surface area" t-shirt, the aborted SpaceX launch, why Steve Blank thinks the age of Silicon Valley is over, when a blow to the head creates a sudden genius, the Reproducibility Project, the genetic basis for why Jason talks so much and the progress being made on AnyFu.

Jason speaks with James Thomas, Director of Research for Headlands Technologies, LLC, about the business of high-frequency trading.

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, why Justin believes Kickstarter is the future of seed funding and should be called "kickstrapping", why Jason and Guyon are probably going to kill their HackerEvents project, how Edwardo Saverin and Derek Sivers are renouncing their U.S. citizenships, the development of Colby's Star Stream project, why Justin thinks Appignite should be open-sourced using a WordPress-like business model, Kevin's Rose's likely net worth, how the UK is going to station missiles on a residential roof for the Olympics, how the CIA's MKUltra project likely created the Unabomber, the Pentagon's claim that they have no photo evidence of Bin Laden's death and the treasure hunter who says he's located Bin Laden's body, Richard Stallan's Facebook notes and Jason's memory system project, how Fringe has been renewed for a fifth and final season, playing with CircuitLab, Jason's idea for a Facebook game that uses the game design of Scrabble but applied to electronics and why future interviews will most likely be conducted by either Justin or Jason alone instead of both of them at the same time.

Justin and Jason talk with Jason Cohen about his latest startup, WP Engine.

Description: 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.

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 the MF Global fiasco, Matt Tiabbi's coverage of Wall Street's endemic corruption and why William Black thinks the American JOBS Act will introduce fraud, $10 million loans for everyone, how Iran is reverse engineering a downed U.S. drone, why CENTCOM's Operation Earnest Voice will ultimately be turned inward like the NSA's Operation Stellar Wind and completing the AnyFu payout cycle.

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 and China are influencing social networks with the help of tools like persona management platforms, why Justin thinks Breaking Bad is the best drama series ever made, the awesome Prometheus trailers and viral TED Talk, how Justin improved Pluggio's performance and the lessons he learned along the way, the homogenization of blog engines and how it aids and hinders creativity, the awesomeness of Light Table, Meteor and Firebase, the recent down-tick in VC funding, the technology behind Preezo and the idea of writing an article about it, why Netflix decided not to implement the prize-winning algorithm the science and technology behind a quantum Internet, the MIT study predicting global economic collapse by 2030 and the OECD report pinning it at 2050, the subject of System Dynamics and the concept of stock and flows, thought's on simulating the zombie apocalypse, creating a massively distributed P2P dispatching network and how someone other than Justin wrote the new version of ezSQL.

Justin & Jason talk in depth with Gabriel Weinberg about how he raised $3m venture capital for DuckDuckGo.

Justin and Jason discuss balancing time when bootstrapping, the categories and costs of context switching, strategies for recruiting AnyFu experts, the status of the AnyFu payout system, what was learned from the first five AnyFu sessions, the DNA of the perfect AnyFu expert, whether or not we're in a startup bubble, when it makes sense to bootstrap and when it makes sense to raise money, vaccinating yourself against customer feedback, Helmut's document signing demo, the Hacker News slap, why Jason believes the "donate to charity" business model won't work for AnyFu, the importance of keeping your message simple, the PhantomJS web stack, why writing business plans are a waste of time for web and mobile startups, the new Node.js profiler, how Justin got into business with Uri Geller, the story of MashAPI, and the scam of automatic traffic ticketing.

Justin and Jason speak with actor / producer / stunt-man, Dan Southworth about life as the Quantum Ranger and how he bootstrapped the sci-fi / action web series Divergence.

Justin and Jason discuss some big donations from the Australian contingent, the story of Spent - an expense tracking iPhone app, the importance of momentum, how Ben Boyter got a raise, Justin's new life in Savannah, building an NDA signing service, the customer development being done for AnyFu, whether life is easier as a funded or bootstrapped startup, the maven versus the consultant, quality over quantity, drafting an LLC agreement, traveling to MicroConf, developing a payout system, bringing Preezo back from the dead and why Jason and Justin love their accountant.

Justin and Jason talk to William Saito author of "An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur"

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's drive to Savannah, the recent iTunes review surge, the success of the first AnyFu transaction and the lessons learned, whether or not AnyFu qualifies as a "Lean Startup", the new TZ comment policy, what happened to _why, why Jason is excited about Colby's renewed interest in soccer, different types of memories, whether Fringe is going to be renewed for a fifth season and why Justin likes teenage dramas, MySQL replication, the NSA's domestic spying technology, how Kevin Rose is closing down Milk and joining Google, why Jason is paring back his Appignite ambition, the latest on Koz's job hunt, why Justin thinks Google+ is dying and the science behind the 8-hour work day.

Justin and Jason discuss how Rackspace went down for 7 hours and took Pluggio down with it, some ideas for implementing a robust failover solution, the latest on AnyFu and some feedback from the first two users, why Justin is moving to Savannah, GA and what makes him think he's actually going to get work done on the drive there, what James Dyson wants to do to improve the Brittish economy, how Jason ghost wrote the "Help a hacker out" post on Hacker News, what happened when David Wasmer increased his "luck surface area", what to do about the asteroid that's headed directly at earth, why we're underestimating the risk of human extinction and the three propositions of the ancestor simulation hypothesis, how you can double your brain power through "transcranial direct-current stimulation" and for only $99, what's been learned from the hacking of Stratfor, why kids born later in the year are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, Jason's idea for a real-word "like" system, the difference between grinds and princes, an Appignite update, and why YOU need to review us on iTunes.

Justin and Jason speak with Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect at Percona and lead author of the O'Reilly book, High Performance MySQL.

Justin and Jason discuss how Justin's apartment almost burned down and how he sold his house in the UK, the television shows Fringe, Prophets of Science Fiction, Bloomberg Game Changers and the movie Limitless, the progress being made on AnyFu and the challenge of recruiting well-known experts, listener questions, the story of what happend to Jason's movie idea, the possibility of recurring donations and winning the iTunes review war with Startups for the Rest of Us, effective criticism, Alex MacCaw's new Ace framework (think Sinatra for Node.js), insight from Uber's most successful driver, the risk of premature generalization, how SmartGit makes Git easy and why research on the H5N1 virus has been temporarily halted.

Justin and Jason talk to Paul Paetz CEO of Innovative Disruption

Justin and Jason talk to Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Spine.js and a bunch of other cool stuff.

Justin and Jason talk to Patrick Collison, co-founder of the online payment processing startup, Stripe

Justin and Jason discuss the latest in brain boosting, why to-do lists don't work, the ethics of deleting a user's data after they've closed their account, the upcoming MicroConf 2012 conference, getting more iTunes reviews, Jason's idea for applying a points system to Masterminding, the latest progress on AnyFu, the painful process of acquiring an SSL Extended Validation certificate and why Jason opposed the idea of purchasing an SSL certificate from GoDaddy, encrypting social security numbers, how one of the founders of TheGlobe is applying the Angel List model to Hollywood, why the actor who played Darth Vader still isn't getting paid residuals, some ideas on how to disrupt Hollywood, why ACTA is the new SOPA, the new show segment known as the Doom and Gloom Report, how the oldest ship in the navy, the USS Enterprise, AKA the "Mobile Chernobyl", is heading straight to the Strait of Hormuz, why India is going to pay gold for Iranian oil, how the LAPD coordinated with the CIA on terrorism (which is a big no-no) and Jason's prediction for the evolution of AnyFu.

Justin & Jason talk to Anthony Goldblooma and Jeremy Howard co-founders of Kaggle a platform for predictive modeling competitions.