TechZing is an informal bi-weekly chat show aimed at entreprenures and hackers interested in creating their own web app startup. The show is both educational (with practical advice) and conversational.

252: TZ Discussion - Super Accelerated

January 20, 2014 01:38:02 94.6 MB Downloads: 0

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.