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And yes, that seems silly and inflammatory... but it has all the hallmarks of Vista's over-zealousness, last minute changes and disdain for Microsoft's core customers.

timkelleron Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees

"Please make a public example of this termination with the group."

Yikes. Sounds positively medieval.

timkelleron Scaling GitHub

I saw Zach Holman present this in Cape Town today. These slides are merely a back-drop to what was an excellent talk.

timkelleron When GitHub kills Open Source

Ha! If anything GitHub is doing more to keep Open Source development alive and healthy than any other company.

timkelleron Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone

Fantastic update, as always. There aren't many developers who'd continue updating a $4.99 app this long... not to mention that its a universal app!

timkelleron Which technology stack to use for car pooling over web and mobile

Cool - so I guess you're asking which is the "cooler" of the two solutions?

If it was me - I'd go for the NodeJS and MongoDB... because I haven't got a chance to build anything meaningful in either as yet. And also because I think MongoDB's geo-spatial stuffs would be useful for your project.

timkelleron Which technology stack to use for car pooling over web and mobile

The problem you describe does not require a complex technology stack.

Front-end: HTML5, sure. Considered JQueryMobile for the mobile app?

App: Use whatever you're most comfortable/experienced with. Even if that's PHP, use it.

Database: Have you been looking at MongoDB specifically because of its good geo-spatial indexing? If so, that makes sense. But if you don't need it - just use MySQL/Postgres. You'll be able to reach your goal without the learning curve of using a NoSQL DB.