Codhisattva

Ford pays for a cell data link. Edge, 2G and analog equipment is still out there and cheap for things like this.

Main reason to avoid long polling is the awful scalability (compared to plain old socket programming).

Will people stop writing crap "on" HTTP please and use TCP like you're supposed too! :)

Websockets is a great transport protocol for bi-direction realtime persistent connections. And it's very easy to write your own application protocol or just use WAMP from http://wamp.ws.

Screw long polling. Use websockets.

Not lucky - the answer is inferable. Exhaustive search is just the primitive way.

Thinking is not a self help book. It's a memoir of sorts about a nobel prize winning economist and the way he and his mentor changed the field of decision theory through the combination of economics, psychology and statistical mathematics. It truly is eye opening and life changing.

+1 Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was going to post that as the most influential book of the year.

(I started reading Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise when I got to a reference to Thinking, Fast and Slow. Switched and haven't gone back yet.)

What I learned while getting my CS degree:

The physics of microelectronic devices Machine language C Data structures Sociology Psychology Anthropology Literature Politics and Activism

College is an opportunity to learn. Whether you seize it or waste it is up to you.

[edit: just want to add that the OP makes a great point]

Who says it doesn't?

More a discussion about why not to use PERL than anything else.

Also, hire a branding expert - "moonpig" is awful in every way possible.

Lead and they will follow. Or post meta-commentary without helpful value.

There are two opposing views of the Declaration and the Constitution.

One view considers these documents to be the expression of the inclusive rights granted to the citizenship.

The other view considers these documents to be the definition of the extents and limits of federal and state powers.

The first view currently prevails but that was not always the case. Under the second view you can not waive your right to remain silent, or waive your right to unreasonable searches. In other words, being Mirandized doesn't grant the right. It's simply informing you of what you always have.

There are two Americas now; the first consists of those who perform surveillance and the second are the suspects.

We must act better than our enemies lest we become the enemy.

s/American/Christian/

Only write meta posts that complain about community rules and slyly use the article you're trying to promote as an example of how the rule has failed the community. Win/win.

Bitcoin isn't a bubble as much as it's a hyped up pump and dump scheme.

Oh wait.

If I'm not mistaken angels anticipate that 90% or more of their investments will fail. It's high risk so that's why they command high equity.

"Regret" (ie hindsight) is a useless metric.

But that's the not the point of the article anyway. Hello sales pitch for Worthworm!

Cash doesn't have to change hands to exchange bitcoins.

Wow. That's an exhaustive discussion. +1

Title is deceptive. ONE test Android phone did this and much of the traffic was related to one app.

Is it possible to know the actual amount of money that exchanged hands?

Time to invoke Zawinski's Law:

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

(Of course the contemporary version would tweet.)

This is a great intermediate level book. Definitely read Reinfeld and study the SCO and then get into this one.

Tactics!

Worth while read. It's great to see an entrepreneur want to build a company instead of a product to sell to investors.

Go Groove!

No way. Feeding the credit card system is feeding children to satan.

Replacing ACH is a much better solution. Like what Dwolla has done.

Using the debit card system is not innovative and it's not "cash" either. But don't mind me, I just hate the credit card industry and wish it would roll over and die already.

Separate out the biopic & documentaries into a new list. They definitely have a different kind of appeal.

"In the search for ultimate rather than proximate solutions to problems like this, it’s important to remember that the software is not immovable."

Not immovable is a great point. Git is ripe for major improvement.

That's not what "fiat" means. That's what "currency" means. (That is, if you can't pay taxes to defer the threat of state sponsored violence against your person then it's not valuable currency.)