This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is applied to a larger machine?
Yes, I realize that this is not an entirely fair comparison. However, the parallels between this article and the "war on general purpose computing" seem relevant...
As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)...
I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of your app.
I do allow same-party interaction and cookies. (i.e., anything from montagebook will work.)
You may want to set your third-party analytics services to be asynchronous, so they aren't a single point of failure for your entire application.
Agreed--we're looking into how we can have the site degrade a bit more gracefully for visitors that disable 3rd party services that aren't critical to the main experience.
This desk doesn't look like it does very low. When I do sit, I like my desk to be almost on my lap, so that my arms hang straight down, and my elbows are very close to 90 degrees. I find this very comfortable. However, it means the desk itself has to go fairly low (mine is at 26.5 inches or 670mm right now).
Point is ... if you get a standing desk, make sure it works when sitting just as well as when standing. Check the 'lowest height' and compare it to what you use.
EDIT: I am impressed with the removal of the stabilizer between the legs. That's a great feature.
Just started using OpenStreetMap on the weekend. I found Mapbox[1] to be very easy to get started with. Their plans also seem to specifically benefit the 'small user' (I.e., free developer account). At the same time I have to assume they serve big customers well too, since Foursquare is listed as a customer.
I'm no OpenStreetMap expert (yet), so maybe a CloudMade Mapbox comparison isn't entirely fair.
We've been using MapBox and are pretty happy with it. They are filling a much needed niche for businesses that are not big enough to be able to afford the $10k google license. We have had good success leveraging their tools for non profits and small to mid size businesses.
Another happy MapQuest user here as well. We saved tens of thousands a year by switching from Google Maps to OSM/MapQuest. Leaflet [1] is also a big feather in the cap - easy API, actively maintained, and it easily integrates with any number of tile providers with no provider-specific code.
I was actually planning on writing a CloudMade/MapBox comparison, but it looks like there's no need anymore.
It's tough to compare the two - each has services that the other doesn't (aerial imagery, routing, geocoding, etc.) so you might end up with an implementation that cobbles together things from both.
I was hired by my college to build a grade management system in my second-to-last year there. I was in a hurry due to a lunch meeting with other IT staff at the University, forgot to add the where clause, and suddenly every single student was a Computational-Science major (mine).
Funny part of the story was that the moment it happened I uttered "oh shit." My boss, who sat beside me, said "what'd you do?", and about 15 IT staff from other departments walked into the office to go out for lunch. I'm sure I was an interesting shade of red.
I had to explain what I did in front of all these people. My boss laughed out loud, brought the system offline, and simply said: "well, after lunch we get to test our backup process." We went for lunch.
Two valuable lessons I learned...
People make mistakes, that isn't a problem, it's how they respond that's important.
Don't try and solve hard problems when emotions are running high. If shit is going down in production, the most important thing to do is to breathe, and get a glass of water. That little bit of time helps a lot.
Yes, I realize that this is not an entirely fair comparison. However, the parallels between this article and the "war on general purpose computing" seem relevant...
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html