I live in Brighton and the vast majority of people I know use http://www.just-eat.co.uk/ which is basically an online wrapper for ordering takeaways. It covers loads of the local places and you usually get free delivery within a ~2 mile radius for orders over £8 or a ~£3 surcharge for delivery. You can order pretty much any kind of fast food from there, although the big companies (McDonalds, etc) don't deliver.

If there was no internet we could finally fufill peoples' fantasies of an international meshnet!

This is a really good read! I'm a first year CS student and I'm interested in going into research later on.

Thanks for writing this.

When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.

@bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this.

Cheers!

I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem:

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi...

Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.

Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers.

Cheers.

Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.

Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms. Cheers.

Stop stop stop... ∞

Ok.

This is seriously awesome. I don't have a 3D printer or any real facilities for making electronics, but I can't wait to see what kinds of things people make. :)

He's poking fun at the Y2K, Y2K38 problems. :)

They're still on invite-only. I remember them having some problems, but I think it's also taking a long time because their idea is so damned ambitious...

Just out of curiosity, which part of the Midwest do you live in?

Wisconsin. Land of brats, cheese and good canoeing.

I suspect Chicago is Wisconsin's #1 export market for brats and cheese. I love Chicago, but I also love my neighbors to the north. Keep 'em coming. I'll eat more. :-)

Which city did you arrive at?

New York.