234: TZ Discussion - Death by iPad

Justin and Jason discuss using Percona for just-in-time MySQL consulting and the idea of offering time-and-a-half "no-wait" rates for AnyFu, the idea of hiring open source experts to write custom patches, using GUIDs in place of auto-increment IDs to solve detached MySQL slave inserts, how Jason has been advising a startup as a consulting CTO, the importance of creating and documenting a well-defined API when pursing a simultaneous web and mobile development strategy, building a critical mass of AnyFu experts, why Jason is considering becoming active on Twitter, how Ben Reyes cleaned up with TSLA, setting up an online trading account, the consumer reports sterling evaluation of the Telsa Model S, why Tesla succeeded and Fisker failed, how conventional wisdom about alternative energy is way out of date, but how Kleiner Perkins has lost money investing in clean energy, the ground-breaking tech of Google Glass and it's implications, how space junk destroyed a Russian satellite, the possibility of doing a marathon podcast, the wide variation in medial costs by region of the country and how to turn this into a business, Jason's idea for a site that debunks false conventional wisdom, a new tech internship model, the study suggesting that college doesn't improve critical thinking for 45% of students, the study demonstrating that supportive parenting works better than "tiger" parenting which leads to a comparatively lower GPA and a more depressive emotional state, the hasty generalization fallacy and cognitive biases, how a 14-year-old discovered that the magnets in an iPad can turn off pacemakers, why Jason wants a TL;DR for everything, why it's valuable and how to create a business out of it, the prospect of using a mobile device to login to a website, how police departments are starting to use iPhone-based iris scanners in the field, the Twine Kickstarter project, combining Kickstarter, Google Trends and Twitter to mine sentiment analysis, why Justin thinks there's a Kickstarter bubble, Jason's theory of why the Google search term "color" is positively correlated with a bullish market, the Ersatz deep learning web platform and why people think it's a big deal, why Jason thinks there needs to be an accountability website for public influencers, the Freakonomics chapter about the performance of kids who were not accepted into a magnet school due to a lottery pick, setting up a subdomain for transactional email on Mailgun, how listener James Jensen is teaching a group of kids how to build Arduino-based robots, an update on Catalyst and the plans for the summer, the latest on Jason's secret project, using MathJax and jqMath to add equations to a web page, the latest on Pluggio, Justin's thoughts on Laravel, how Khan Academy Lite is using Raspberry Pi to stream videos, how the State Department ordered a firm to remove blueprints for a 3D-printed guns from the web, how Obama is backing the FBI's effort to wiretap web users and why Justin is moving yet again.