> Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically driven by profit or ignorance.

Wait, this one is an objective property of the product you're working on, right?

As a kid I really enjoyed the Winnetou stories by Karl May

I second That Which Is Seen by Bastiat, nice and short intro to economic way of thinking

But without mortar, you'd just knock it over with one clumsy stumble, right?

He hasn't fired the bricks yet. He's just storing them until he accumulates enough to fire and eventually mortar.

Who claims that "humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals"? And what do they mean by "most" evolved?

Without this information it's hard to answer the question why they're saying that.

Sounds weird, but someone actually did exactly that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x594yMPSFqk

I understand that fashion is a pure coordination game, so you would expect every website to look the same, but man, this style of illustration that is absolutely everywhere gets annoying very quickly. (Or is it just me?)

Absolutely not just you, this is the same style abused by a comical number of different service websites nowadays because it happens to be the latest fashion fad:

  * Plaid — https://plaid.com  
  * Airtable — https://airtable.com  
  * Blogsend — http://blogsend.io  
  * Twist — https://twist.com  
  * Humaaans ("dopey cartoon people" as a design product) — https://www.humaaans.com/  
  * Personas ("dopey cartoon people" as an avatar) — https://personas.draftbit.com/

Thankfully, this awful trend seems to be going out of favor, because the following services' websites have recently refreshed off it:

  * Pastel (recently refreshed their site) — https://web.archive.org/web/20180203192541/https://usepastel.com/  
  * User Testing (recently refreshed their site) — http://web.archive.org/web/20190201001118/https://www.usertesting.com/

(Edit: formatting)

Won't blame you, we are not designers by trade, and just purchased illustrations :)

> Additionally, the bill makes it unlawful for a large employer to ask employees whether or not they qualify for federal benefits.

…But then how would the employer's tax department know how much to pay in the proposed tax?

On the contrary, I think most other industries do this (i.e. hire people based on mostly insane criteria).

I think programmers are more reflective and analytical than people from other industries, so programming as an industry gets a lot of flak from the inside, but I really believe it's no better anywhere else.

"Half of programmers can't program! What's wrong with this industry?" Half of everyone is completely and utterly incompetent at whatever they're paid to do, why do you think we're special? Programmers just happen to notice these things.

"The interview process is broken!" Yeah, so it is everywhere else, programming is just the only industry where someone would possibly even care about whether something is insane or not.

'Tis my two cents.

Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.

I agree—naming is deeply underrated, and it's not at all too late! Just choose something abstract and appealing, or a simple noun without any weird associations.

"Just choose something"

Did you see that South Park episode where they try to pick a name for their startup but all names are taken? It's very, very funny.

So yeah, I want the perfect name for this. What _is_ the perfect name?

What about "unheavy search" ? Synonym for light, but very uncommon as far as I can tell. It's not beautiful or elegant, but it's also not confusing and making me think of gogo dancers. Best I could come up with in 5 minutes.

Weird name almost seems to be a requirement for a sucessful web search engine (yahoo, google and duckduckgo etc)

Drop the 'did'? Much cleaner.

And maybe also the 'you'?

Maybe rearrange the letters in gogo and add le to the end also?

legogo has a nice memey feeling to it though

Seems appropriate for most Internet content.