- Victorinox Classic SD Pocket Knife - Japanese toilet roll holders - 3M Command Strips
As a Japanese, curious how a toilet roll holder can be different.
Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
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Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#962Happy hacking keyboard professional.
Typing feel is exceptional and it's in a small form, so every key is within your reach. (Doesn't mean the keys are small.) Especially great for vim mode typing. You can even easily carry it with you.
Being using it for nearly 10 years and not failing. Highly recommended.
http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/hhkeyboard/lineup/images/thumb_pd...
There's also a one without a print for serious typers which I use.
http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/hhkeyboard/lineup/images/thumb_pd...
(Lite version is a completely different thing, I don't consider it worth buying.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=happy+hacking+keyboard+profe...
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#963Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#964Apple MacBooks are the best laptops that I have ever used. Nothing comes close to them. Even my Surface. It's a great device (by far the best Windows laptop/convertible available), but it misses on some details (light bleed on the edges, kickstand doesn't align all the way)
Until you need to replace literally anything in them. When their design suddenly looks massively hopeless compared to a thinkpad.
They aren't designed to need that kind of servicing. They're designed to last long enough to justify a replacement, and the 2008 and 2009 MacBooks we have under our bookcase continue to prove this.
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#965Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Macs are legendary for their design, but I have to say the winner is the MacBook Air. We have one at home, specifically the 2011 model MacBook Air. Such a fine piece of equipment and it still works pretty today as well as it did 6 years ago.
Have been using Air since its 1st gen.
If the screen on the Air wasn't so shitty, I would still be rocking that thing. It had legendary battery life and an amazing keyboard, all while being super light.
I think that the MBA the best MacBook they've ever designed. No compromises, light enough to forget about and lasts long enough to almost never need charging.
I seriously wished they re-released that with a Retina screen.
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#966Happy hacking keyboard professional. Typing feel is exceptional and it's in a small form, so every key is within your reach. (Doesn't mean the keys are small.) Especially great for vim mode typing. You can even easily carry it with you. Being using it for nearly 10 years and not failing. Highly recommended. http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/hhkeyboard/lineup/images/thumb_pd... There's also a one without a print for serious…
I ctrl-f on this page looking for HHKB. I've got both the Type-S and the regular and went for the carrying case. These keyboards are two of my favorite things.
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#967Textmate 2 - It's such a well-engineered piece of software, and it's gorgeous. Bialetti Brikka - Such an elegant design, and it makes delicious coffee, Italian-style. Nespresso - If Apple made espresso machines. The espresso tastes great and it's easy to clean. Patagonia MLC 45L - My pet peeve with luggage is that the good stuff tends to be heavy. Not this! It's big enough for extended travel, has backpack straps if…
> Nespresso
Anything that creates such an inordinate amount of waste is not well designed in my book.
Even the inventor of coffee capsules regrets creating them due to the ridiculous amount of waste.
> Bialetti Brikka
Yes!
> Blundstone boots
And yes!
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#968Meta: /r/buyitforlife has a lot content in this vein.
Full URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#969The Lido 2 Coffee Grinder: http://www.oehandgrinders.com/OE-LIDO-2-Manual-Coffee-Grinde... Heath Coffee Mugs Trains in Switzerland (including the great app!) Hosu (chair) Cutipl (silverware) Emile Henry Flameware (Dutch Oven) Mountain Collective Ski Pass Black Diamond Hiking Poles
If you think the Swiss SBB app is great, the Dutch Trains' NS app will blow your mind. Best transport app I've seen in a long time.
Re: Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
#970- Victorinox Classic SD Pocket Knife - Japanese toilet roll holders - 3M Command Strips
As a Japanese, curious how a toilet roll holder can be different.
These ones in America are fairly common, they're a plastic tube with a spring inside which you must awkwardly compress to remove the old roll and insert a new one.
http://www.restroomdirect.com/images/products/detail/ASI_10-...
