• Chris Hennick (github)

    I guess if they'd had local tech talent, someone would've told them they needed new cell towers frist, unless there was an existing mesh network to piggyback on.

  • (nodebb)

    I guess I can cross out "doing debugging in a police car passenger seat in a notoriously dangerous neighborhood" off my bucket list.

    Why would that even be on your bucket list?

    Root cause: turns out cellphone connections would be pretty spotty in those areas, which we weren't handling properly.

    Well duh, that's exactly what I was expecting to see you say. It's a core maxim of development for mobile tracking systems, that you assume that you can get losses of connectivity at the whim of the the Gods, even if you're standing across the street from the nearest operating antenna. Case in point: back in the day, I lived in a small village on the River Thames between Oxford and Reading. It was a fairly affluent place, and definitely not any sort of slum / shantytown, but nonetheless, if I went into the centre of the village, less than a mile from the nearest base station and antenna for my provider, and stood in the small car park, I had no mobile signal at all.

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