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Surely rinsing out the debris dislodged during the brushing process is preferrable to letting it remain in the mouth.

I agree that a tight house is desirable for many reasons, but proper ventilation and indoor air quality are areas of building design and construction that are often severely neglected, even in new construction.

And with the amount of ventilation needed to make a PVC lined box into a healthy living environment, your kids will be conducting airfoil research at the dining room table.

Even worse, it becomes the inside and outside vapor barrier for the entire house. An air tight home lined with phthalate-laden PVC? No thank you.

Unfortunately you're being down voted, but the reality is there are crumple zones built into some hoods (bonnets) that help protect the pedestrian from immediately impacting the solid parts of the engine. So the concept isn't completely unexplored.

You'll probably do better once you can retain people who reject employer surveillance.

"Locals". Are you really so obtuse?

Russian propaganda.

Glowforge? Higher price point than most consumer gadgets, but their crowdfunding campaign set a record at the time. (The founding team spent tons of effort on getting the product-market fit right)

Great videos! But the launches all seem "normal" to me.

I've found quality wool garments to be very helpful. Examples: A thick wool "cable knot" sweater is both warm and highly breathable, ideal for hiking. Wool socks (and/or wool felt slippers when it's very cold) keep feet warm without any of the clamminess (or smell) associated with cotton or synthetics. Merino wool underwear has similar benefits.

The price is higher compared to cotton or synthetics, but it's possible to find good values by shopping sales. The daily rewards of wool (in every season) are worth the extra effort.

Thanks for sharing this update and being so transparent about your earnings! I've found your posts inspiring and it's great to know your projects continue to grow.

The aesthetic of these designs will be less of a surprise if you take a look at photos of Jony Ive's house in San Francisco. His taste encompasses more than the Deiter Rams inspired minimalism of his later work at Apple.

I'm coming to this conversation late, but your pain points are almost exactly the same ones that inspired a side project of mine [1].

I'd love to hear of any more issues you have with Figma or your workflow in general.

What I'm working on is a web app that serves your project's Figma designs to a focused workspace where you can code them up. Different breakpoints, states, and specs are all right there, so there's no window switching and you never have to open Figma. And it notifies you of design updates.

Still a work in progress, but I hope to launch it later this year.

[1] https://wipkit.com/

Regarding lying down to work + body structures that "lack blood supply and are nourished by diffusion", a cautionary anecdote:

[TLDR: Typing for long periods while lying down with hands elevated above heart may cause an injury.]

A few years ago I built a lying down / "zero gravity" workstation. The position of my keyboard was very similar to the Altwork station, I.E. with arms bent at about 90 degrees with a keyboard and trackpad positioned above my body.

After a couple months of using it during full time working hours I developed severe pain in my wrists and forearms. This had never occurred before when using a conventional workstation / position. I soon became unable to type, and nearly any use of my hands resulted in intense pain. Writing code using a keyboard was out of the question.

After much reading during my forced hiatus, I came to a hypothesis: elevating my hands to type while on my back caused a decrease in diffusion of fluids to the non-vascular tissues of my forearms and hands, that is, the tendons and muscle fascia. While in this unlubricated, "dry" state, the small, continual movements of the tissues against each other (the motions of typing) led to the injury. I concluded it was tendonosis. (IANAD, but had no health insurance at the time.)

The injury took six months to fully heal, during which time I self-administered massage, myofascial release therapy, and grip strength training to increase circulation around the various tissues. For much of that time, I could barely work. Truly it was hell.

As for the workstation, I modified it to use a split keyboard (Ergodox EZ) that kept my hands below my heart (basically at my sides). But ultimately I abandoned the whole thing after failing to achieve a reasonable touch typing speed with the Ergodox.

My current workstation is based on an Ikea lounge chair and ottoman. Keyboard and trackpad extend from the side into my lap on a low-mounted, adjustable arm. The monitor is also on an arm, cantilevered out over the ottoman (and my legs) at a comfortable viewing angle and distance. This setup is certainly not as relaxing for the back as the previous zero gravity position, but in approximately three years of use I've had no further injuries from typing.

YMMV.

Paul Jarvis, author of "Company of One" has a private academy/community group.[1] I'm not a member, but plan to consider it after I finish the book.

[1] https://ofone.co/learn/

I haven't personally, but there was recently a discussion of that very topic on the i-bob list.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/internet-bob/bWwsR-J...

For people who are REALLY into bikes, a "rinko bike" helps with this. For general use however, I'm convinced about using a scooter as described above by the GGP.

I work daily with 2015 MBPs, and I agree the keyboards are good. But every day I also miss the keyboard of my burnt out 2011 MBP. In my 20 years of using macs, that one and the 2012 generation had the best combination of crisp resistance + travel.

Awesome, thanks for the tip.

Great news, and a hearty congrats and thank you to all the contributors!

As a frontend designer, I'd been hoping for some mention of faster SASS/SCSS compiling, but it looks like it's the same asset pipeline for that. Can anyone recommend a current resource for decreasing compile times?

I love designing in a Rails app, but my non-Rails projects all seem to inject CSS changes into the browser almost instantaneously, whereas with Rails there's often a wait of up to 10 seconds. The lag is pretty disruptive to the design workflow. I'm pretty new to Rails so any tips on what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated :)

Don't forget the damage plastics do to marine life. For almost any shape, type, and size of plastic, there is an animal in the ocean that will mistake it for food.

In the case of plastic bags, they seem to be commonly mistaken for squid and jellyfish, eaten by the albatross and sea turtles, to name just two species.

So while the bag-free aesthetic on land is an improvement, the potential for downstream benefits is even greater.

Neither of the articles you cited mention anything backing your claims on food contamination or sanitation.

Fascinating. Could you describe what some different smells look like to you?

Right, how to be relevant to both the decision maker as well as the end-user is a key question.

I'm working on a product in a similar space, and struggling with the question for our own marketing materials. Amy Hoy's material [1] on audience "worldviews" has been helpful so far. (No personal affiliation.)

Best of luck with your launch!

[1] https://stackingthebricks.com/niches-are-for-suckers/

Another question about the design of the page: Does this kind of conversational / persona based pitch actually work to convert users? E.G. "Hi I'm Clara, my life's goal is... I struggle with..." "If you relate with Clara, try X now..."

At least for me the net emotional effect of the "For Desigers & Developers" section of the homepage was a strong impulse to bounce. (I'm in the target market.) Ultimately for the sake of research I clicked through to the ~/product page, where I found the diagrammatic graphics much more compelling.

Great anecdote! My dad was an engineer on the Hubble and its servicing missions so I'm sure he'll get a kick out of that story if he hasn't heard it before. Thanks for sharing it!

Seems likely that it was flagged by multiple users. Also, I suspect the HN algorithm weights flagging by high karma users very highly.

Frankly, it's a broken system when it comes to politically fraught topics.