Justin and Jason discuss the technologies - Node.js, Socket.io & Redis, which Justin and Udi are using to build digedu's chat system, using CSS fixed positioning for popups on tablets, the influence of good looks on success, Miss Korea contestants and plastic surgery, and Jason's idea for scoring your looks, using Google Trends to beat the market, how Wall Street is gobbling up two-thirds of your 401(k), sending smart phones to space as personal satellites and the concern about space junk, surviving in space without a space suit, how the SpaceX Grasshopper flew 250 meters straight up and then landed vertically, the Kickstarter campaign to engineer florescent plants using synthetic biology, Zach Braff's Kickstarter campaign to finance his new film, kickstarting a Dungeons & Dragons project, the prospect of recording a world-record length podcast, the Soylent controversy, what it's like to get online after 25 years in prison, the prisoner who impregnated four female guards and the prisoner who escaped using a picture of a master key, Jason's thoughts on Oblivion, Just Add Content, thoughts on MicroConf, smoke and mirrors demo-ware, the Silicon Valley "miracle machine" and how Meebo is going to be shut down, AnyFu's recent resurgence, why Justin is purchasing a walking desk, the importance of mastering the underlying dynamics of a system and the pitfalls of pattern matching on superficial attributes, the Y Combinator labor arbitrage, how Jason rolled out an alpha version of his secret project for digedu to use, and Justin's concept of an MDP (minimum delightful project).
Just and Jason talk about Udi coming to America, whether Justin should use the $$ framework for Digedu, Justin's theory on show titles, the role of talent in reaching the highest level's of success, the last Catalyst session, the TechZing bulletin board, Jason and Guyon's solution to the Uber hackathon, how Upverter is coming to the Pasadena Science & Technology Expo and how Jason is going to attend the upcoming Upverter / YC hardware hackathon, how Jason was quoted in the press, how Justin picked up high-paying consulting work, the logo for Jason's secret project, why Jason thinks it's time to learn Go if you're a consultant, the Zerigo DNS service, how Justin is using NewsBlur's RSS API, the Splittsville and MarkITx iPhone apps, why Tony Stark is the ultimate engineering role model, and an update on the AnyFu recruiting process.
Jason speaks with Ivan Savov about his new book, The No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics.