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Inkscape is actually pretty good for basic vector manipulating and making SVG files, but yeah, it's pretty basic. The handles are much larger to click on than Illustrator though.

I have trouble squatting at the office, but that is because like you say. Jeans are terrible!

At home I can squat for about 30 seconds or so before it starts to get uncomfortable. I can do it, but haven't built up the endurance as we never use those muscles!

Also, there is no good reason to squat in an office. I'm thinking of bolting a Gameboy to the floor so you have to squat to play Tetris.

I really like this... It forces us to question our role in the universe. Whilst the pyramids have stayed, what would end up standing from the modern days?

Our days on this planet seem finite, and given progress recently I sometimes think that there can't be many generations left.

It's not superior, but is more versatile. I'd argue the lack of any kind of analogue input gives the product a limited lifespan. I've had the same studio monitors for the past 10 years, and headphones for 15 years. Audio equipment has always been one of those things that does not get better with time.

But now we have Bluetooth headphones with hard to replace batteries, and proprietary wireless connections.

As for the flat frequency response, that's pretty cool, and the fact the user doesn't have to rent a meter and average the frequency response curves across the room (and then apply a suitable EQ), means that many of these are going to end up sounding better than most high-end speakers.

Because really, how many people who buy high-end speakers bother with room treatment and tuning?

'Audiophile grade'

What does this even mean nowadays? Military grade is obvious, but when your target audience thinks lifting cables off the floor with ceramic risers reduces sibilance maybe it isn't a good descriptor of quality.

Also how can something without a 3.5mm jack be 'audiophile grade'? Wouldn't it at least need 2 x balanced XLR inputs?

I completely disagree. I've worked in supermarkets, and facing-across products seemed like the most asinine thing in the world.

If a product is out of stock, then the most immediate way to show that is by having an empty shelf.

Instead companies like Walmart prefer to face across products, and cover up barcodes. You would spend a good 10 minutes looking for something very specific, only to have an employee point at something similar, with an obscured SEL (shelf edge label) and say 'if we had them, they would be here'.

There was a big trend when I worked for Walmart to focus on stats like 'Basket Spend', and comparing regional scores. It felt like all the worst examples of AB testing.

There was quite a humorous one where 'key lines' were checked by visitors, so to counteract this, we kept spares of those lines in the back to put out when they visited, later taking them off and putting them back in the warehouse. The end result was these lines never dipped under the restock threshold and were always out of stock... except when they visited.

The easiest way to explain Haxe, is it compiles C#/Java-like code into platform specific code, usually javascript nowadays.

The Haxe syntax itself, is quite peculiar. You can get proper classes, properties, constructors (which are always forced... sigh), and there is the possibility of macros, which lets you do C# style annotations on classes.

The problem is, most of the time, you have to do a bit of special work to get Haxe to play nice with your modern front-end frameworks.

Also, HaxeDevelop hasn't really picked up on the trend towards simpler, pleasant to use IDEs. There is a lot of good functionality in there, but you should be able to get Haxe code working with VS Code.

So what could HaxeDevelop do better? I think it looks too similar to VS2010, whilst everybody else is having a mad dance party over in Metro land. The distraction free IDEs nowadays, really make it easier to get in the zone, and you can configure snippets super easy nowadays.

Offer some really good themes out of the box. I shouldn't have to go into the settings to make my code look nice.

But an actually honest to god redesign I would love. As long as they don't do what is so common right now and use redesigns to cover up for technical debt. And make sure your users never have to worry about DPI.

Electron apps are like so hot right now...