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Just yesterday I wondered when Boeing would do this and what the name would be.

The new name is about as humdrum and forgettable as you can get, which is exactly what Boeing hopes will become of the memory of all that has transpired with the MAX.

Fortunately the plane has some distinctive and memorable exterior features: A sawtoothed trailing edge on the engine nacelles and bidirectional winglets.

I just purchased an Apple-refurbed 2015 MBP. It was a little surreal to be paying almost full price for a 4 year old model. The list of "pros" for the purchase decision was mostly a mirror of the "cons" of the more recent generations.

Overall, the 2015's are reliable machines with only the relatively minor annoyances of the battery recall and the "staingate" anti-glare coating issue.

Really hoping Apple returns to the ethos of their older designs, with serviceability and modularity higher on the list of design goals.

I was doing the same until last week, happily chugging along on my pet project when my 2011 15" MBP screen went white as a ghost. Diagnostics all point toward a problem with the GPU; apparently that generation has a known defect that's only (temporarily) repairable by replacing the logic board. A repair too costly for me to justify.

My recommendation would be to avoid graphically intense work if you hope to continue using the machine for a long time.

I was seriously bummed when my machine died. Fortunately I was able to buy one of the very last Apple refurbed 2015 MBPs, which is still user upgradable to some extent, and avoids all the horrendous design trade-offs of the more recent generations.

Best of luck keeping the old machine going!

Great point about the wider appeal of the Tesla design language. Also, I'll amend my statement in regards to the Lucid's nose, which looks awkward in some angles. Cars are best viewed in person, of course. :)

Having taken a first look at images of the car on their site, I'll say one thing: Lucid has managed a much higher level of aesthetic refinement in their design than Tesla.

I'm a huge fan of Tesla overall, and especially their engineering. Unfortunately, despite the pedigree of their design team, I find the aesthetics wanting. In comparison, the Lucid "Air" (as their model is known), seems to rival the best German manufacturers for aesthetics. It has the crispness and ease of a design from a mature luxury car company. So hats off to that achievement, whatever their market or price point.

Tesla's sheet metal and interiors are somewhat clumsy in comparison. (It's never a good sign when your car looks best in the curve-hiding color black.)

For right-handed typists who don't do a lot with numbers, a 10-key pad just forces your mouse or trackpad much farther to the right, causing ergonomic problems. The number pad should really be viewed as more of a specialized device, not universal. Besides that, it's a pretty cool keyboard.

Perhaps if you know a guy who does solar and batteries, you could avoid the carrier partnership altogether... ;)

I grew up in Connecticut, and as I was reading this I had a feeling you were describing the Northeast!

I've lived and done business in New England, N. California, the Midwest and Southeast, and the attitude you described is widespread. (Though by no means practiced by everyone.)

The Southeast in fact has been the worst IME, because underhanded practices come along with a big helping of Southern "niceness", and often a lower level of competence.

In about the same year, my dad brought home a Macintosh SE for the family. I was very young and remember only a few things: it ran the game Dark Castle in b&w from a hard drive, and my father had pulled the entire system out of a dumpster at work(!). The machine had been used in some way on a defense or NRO contract, and when the project was cancelled, the entire thing was simply discarded. If I recall, one of the back corners of the case was slightly dented from its unceremonious toss into the dumpster.

As a kid I took it all for granted, but we never would have been able to afford such hardware on my dad's engineering salary at the time. The price for a new one adjusted for inflation today is jaw dropping.

Kiyosaki may be just a talented storyteller, but his book was highly recommended to me by an undeniably successful source: a friend's father who emigrated to the US with nothing and built a fortune in real estate while working as an ER surgeon and raising a family.

I advise people to ignore Kiyosaki's other products, but the message of the books Rich Dad Poor Dad and Cashflow is pretty sound.

I agree that the reconstruction needs to be of its own time and place, building in the spirit of the original, not the technology of the past. One of my favorite proposals for the restoration that embodies this approach is that of architect Vincent Callebaut: http://vincent.callebaut.org/zoom/projects/190503_tributeton...

I'm a similar "ghost", and with new projects in the works have been contemplating a big update to my own site. Thanks for the inspiration!

Have you tried SmartMouth "DDS strength" mouthwash and toothpaste by chance? It contains a zinc formulation that inhibits baterial growth. So far, it's the best I've come across.

Not the best day to post a headline like this one :)

Good to know! I'll have to pick up a copy of Skunk Works, I've heard many good things about it.

The SR-71 was a recon platform, not a fighter or bomber. It was made obsolete largely by advances in satellite technology.

Can't we all just judge for ourselves whether a particular user is overdoing it, without someone acting as the "self-promotion police"?

Your comment seems more like an ad hominem than anything else.

Perhaps a better metric would be accidents per unit of time.

Except that it's not 1950.

Traffic levels and public transit aren't good here, which was one of the HQ2 requirements. Great city otherwise, however.

Good eye. Swastika patterns are always something to beware of when creating a pinwheel based design, whether in a logo, decoration, architecture, or even just pinwheels.

>>It makes me wonder why new developments today are always built in the flattest places -- the flatness practically forces us to include a lot of empty space, usually in the form of lawns.

Generally speaking, it's more expensive to build on land with a significant slope. I heartily agree, however, that it results in a much more interesting built environment.

I would jump over to the Indie Hackers site and ask for feedback there. I'm sure it will spark a useful conversation.

From my quick survey of your marketing site, there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve the UX on mobile. I would suggest working with a designer to improve the graphics and checking that the layout works on different browsers/OSes/breakpoints. Might be easiest just to start over with a premade template for the marketing site.

Random question for anyone who uses InVision, as we're considering making it central to our process. Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code? What pitfalls should we look out for?

FYI the building described in TFA was designed by William Wesley Peters, not Frank Lloyd Wright.

I'm really curious, how much equity is considered a good offer?

I've heard that's the policy of Basecamp as well. It's a more equitable solution by far than these other companies, enabling the employee's strategic selection of their place of residence.

Compensation models at Gitlab & Buffer strike me as being creepily paternalistic in pursuit of some misunderstanding of egalitarianism. Who wants to work for a company that's keeping tabs on where you live to make sure you don't get too far ahead of your peers?? Sounds like something out of a digital age Atlas Shrugged.

"Offline violence" and "offline harm" is the newspeak used by this particular flack. As if these things were on a 1 to 10 scale going from "IRL bullying" to "IRL genocide" and might be tackled with the same toolset.

Why not just pull out of Myanmar all together?