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I'm done. If I could delete my account I would.

A big caveat I have is that the SSD is soldered directly to the logic board.

I've used a single Macbook for stretches of 4-5 years at points and I've had to pull out the HD when the logic board has died... seems really sad that I'd be tied to Apple's support in the event I need to access data to use on another machine when previously it was something I could solve in 15 minutes.

During Q&A sessions at conferences someone will inevitably ask: "Which applications do you use for your work?" — which is probably the least helpful question you can ever ask if you want to improve as a designer.

There seems to be a segment of beginners in many professions that perceives the competency gap as purely a software solution.

I feel like that's inherit to the term "Do it yourself" and I'm not sure why people feel like they need to explain it every time someone has a DIY project.

Personally I started getting into cooking through doing it once a week (usually Sunday night) and using it to save money by making enough for 2-3 meals a week.

One key to doing a weekly cooking time is setting aside the time to do it leisurely. If you're not rushing because you're hungry or in the middle of a busy week you can prep/cleanup properly (I use the time to cleanup my kitchen before the week a bit too).

I save money, eat a bit better, and clean my kitchen more often because I took 1-2 hours out of my weekend during a time I'd just be sitting around mourning the end of the weekend anyway.

I don't do it every weekend if I exhausted myself during the day with other projects... but I used to HATE cooking but I've really started looking forward to it. The end result is really satisfying and I feel like it produces a small ongoing feeling of accomplishment that I've really been missing.

Most of Europe

my bad

All previous models were compatible out of the box.

[Citation needed]?

Which only makes banning transfers additionally backwards

Basically it's like saying you want to ban illegal drugs from entering the country.

Yeah I'll occasionally switch to music on my phone if I'm doing a lot of memory intensive tasks. Having Spotify and Chrome open is like a RAM kiss of death.

About 5 years, but in working for Apple you worked for a company that still shipped other products.

Yes and no, you want to have a ton of time tinkering in a lab and the room to experiment and fail... but who would know Edison if he didn't eventually ship the lightbulb?

Also considering how litigious/secretive things are — it must suck to work on something for so long and be contractually obligated to avoid talking about it in public.

it's a metaphor?

Hopefully! I don't think anyone would be surprised if the touchbar was "App store verified" only.

I mean honestly it would be preferable to ads on the main display. Either way, if I didn't want to use an application with ads I'd just uninstall it.

If I had an application that advertised to me like that I'd just uninstall it immediately, like I do on my phone.

I think a lot of people in this thread are getting so riled up about bad design the only alternative they see is totalitarianism.

In this case I think if you're giving an application your focus it should be able to use a secondary screen however the user wants it to. If the experience is bad people won't use your app.

Apple is instead saying "we know what all the good experiences are, so don't go having any bright ideas" — hopefully they won't strongly enforce any of their "guidelines"

I'd type on a flat screen if it made me a starfleet officer though

I mean, you could do all of that — Apple just won't let you.

twitter is bad at doing things

If you want to have visitors over when you live in your house you're free to do so.

If you own a property and operate it as a hotel while not actually living in it you're violating the zoning laws that every business/hotel operation have to adhere to.

AirBnB's use of the word "sharing" is laughably liberal. By their standard if I'm running a convenience store I'm "sharing" my property with every customer who wanders in.

I think the argument can be made that for the same money someone could build a mansion that also doesn't look awful.

I'm a designer, and from my perspective these are all either incredibly generic or very poorly executed. It's an open exploration though, and they do admit the need for refinement.

Direction 2 is the strongest in terms of execution, but it's like they googled "stock developer logo." It's literally something any developer-facing tech company anywhere could use. Nothing about it is unique to Mozilla.

Direction 1: The crocodile-looking thing seems to be an effort at modernizing the dinosaur mark, but it's just so bad (the mark without the mouth feels decent and unique, but once you add the mouth it's like a bad joke). Stylistically it feels like something HotBot would have done in 1998 down to the random caPitaL lEttEr treatment.

Design direction 4 is trying to capitalize on a really popular (but now dwindling) faceted/stained-glass "data" trend... it's already starting to look dated due to overuse, and on top of that is really poorly executed (blobby rabbit, anyone?).

Design Direction 3 is mind-numbingly literal, it's like the first idea from a Sophomore design student. Some of the supporting patterns where the mark is simplified and abstracted beyond the "M" start to look interesting — but the main "M" mark is muddled mess. Just look at the all-white example on a poster, it's almost objectively hideous.

I think their existing lower-case 'mozilla' type treatment is generally friendly and recognizable and there's nothing wrong with it — this exercise would be more interesting if they stuck with that and looked into more options to modernize the T-Rex... I could easily imagine mozilla as a "mascot" heavy brand in the same vein as Mailchimp (but maybe dialed back a tad in the cuteness factor).

Addendum: Look at the homepage for their design partner Johnson Banks (http://johnsonbanks.co.uk/), and look at the shirt in Option 2 — give me a break. You don't even have to go beyond a single degree of separation to see how generic that concept is.

Addendum 2: Holy shit, look at these other options their agency partner has explored — these have their own issues and would need a lot of refinement, but are infinitely more interesting than these posted options:

route B (very '90s and the 'mozilla' treatment is a bit too abstract, but I think it could be pushed to a really nice place): https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/design-route-b-the-conne...

route F (combining a few existing trends, but it's eye-catching, fun, and I'd like to see more of it): https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/design-route-f-the-impos...

I'm not sure if these options mean that Mozilla doesn't know who they are, or their agency partner doesn't know who they are — but it really seems like a brand lost in the woods.

A venn diagram with two circles that don't intersect:

"Can afford a Tesla"

"Wants to drive for Uber"

You don't need to understand their stupid points, you need to understand why they feel a certain way about them. As this election cycle clearly shows, emotion isn't dictated by fact.

Empathy isn't "liking/hating" someone, it's being able to relate to their emotional state.

I don't agree with someone who supports Donald Trump as president... but I can understand being afraid and desperate to a point of irrationality.

Honest question: Is a salary range of $50 - $100k really valuable to you as a job seeker?

People just need to empathize in general. There's so much polarizing armchair bullshit once anything goes wrong for someone else, it's crazy.

Modern interconnectivity is seemingly creating networks of assholes to an extent that wouldn't exist in the past because you just didn't really know everyone's business all the time.

That's kind of the crux of 4chan — you can't take it seriously, but it's very serious.

What if the wall was housing for the poor