All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
It might not actually be my first choice, but this one of the few on my short list that no one else has mentioned.
I read it in my mid teens (not too long after we stopped playing Rambo in the back yard) and it profoundly affected the way I view war, violence, and suffering. I've only read it the once (almost 25 years ago), and I hardly remember the story at all, but I vividly remember the feeling that it gave me.
It took me ages to get used to the old new design (that dropped the tabs on top). Glad they're switching back... definitely a more intuitive structure for me.
Funny, before I read the article I thought that "on accident" must be some British English bastardization since it sounds so weird to my American ears. But I was born in the late 70's and haven't lived in the US since 2000, so maybe that explains it.
My first guess would be that they snapshot the DOM in the JS tick immediately after window.onload completes. Maybe they have a short pause to let any fast timeouts or callbacks complete, but there's got to be a cutoff at some point (e.g. to stop an infinite wait for pages that continuously update a relative date). Of course, with their own JS engine, I bet they can get really fancy with the heuristics to determine when to take that snapshot.
Panic is actually more well known as a company that makes Mac apps. Many would call them the preeminent developers for the Mac platform (along with Omni). So think of it like this...
A hugely popular (for its market), established, independent, and profitable software company gives clear and transparent insight into how the past year has gone for them and their products.
That is a nice competitive advantage over Flask, but Bottle has no dependencies whatsoever. And besides a slight performance advantage over Bottle, I don't see any significant reason for me to switch to Falcon.
Funnily enough I was just today checking out Transit[1] for a project I'm working on. Has anyone gone through the process of picking Velocity vs. Transit? What made you pick one or the other?
My German apartment has drafty, unsealed wooden window frames, and the window in the kitchen is a single large sheet of glass. We have to hang a rug over that window in the winter, as it feels like you've left a freezer door open if you get within 3 feet of it.
When I'm in a place where these folks will follow you around, I turn as robotic as possible and answer once (or maybe twice to make things perfectly clear) with a simple "no". I try to leave no room for interpreting playfulness or agressiveness.
It wasn't quite that bad... I could cancel for any reason, but only up to something like a month before the next billing cycle.
I of course realized this around 2 weeks before the next billing cycle, so I would have been forced to pay for the whole year if I didn't show that I was leaving the city.
So I certainly have some blame to my name for not having read the contract more carefully... it just all seemed a bit crazy at the time for a gym membership.
Nice idea, so long as you're in the US where you don't really have an 'official' location...
I tried to do this once in Berlin to cancel a gym membership outside of the contractual limits. They required showing an official 'de-registration' from the city of Berlin. I was moving within the city at the time, so instead of telling the city I was moving, I instead told the city I was leaving and then a few weeks later reregistered with my new address.
Unfortunately I wasn't aware that this would reset the amount of uninterrupted time spent in Germany which is needed for getting a permanent residency. D'oh!
This has nothing to do with the actual product, which may be great, but... I am so ready for the trend of hyper-animated websites to start dying down.
I scrolled through the whole website, and while it looked great, by the time I got to the end I still had no idea what the product actually offered because my eyes were too busy watching all the little animations to pay attention to the content.
It might not actually be my first choice, but this one of the few on my short list that no one else has mentioned.
I read it in my mid teens (not too long after we stopped playing Rambo in the back yard) and it profoundly affected the way I view war, violence, and suffering. I've only read it the once (almost 25 years ago), and I hardly remember the story at all, but I vividly remember the feeling that it gave me.