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Justin and Jason talk about how Jason’s mail was stolen, some of the limitations with Phone Gap, the engineering salaries of Silicon Valley startups, the ridiculous cost of housing, Jason’s idea for gamifying personal finance, incentivizing kids with cash, how NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab is working on the possibility of a warp drive, the new matter created by the Large Hadron Collider, how an advanced alien race (if […]

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’s article on his Splitsville app, Jason’s love / hate relationship with Titanium, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, css3 animations, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]