There is a marketplace platform with the same name in Nordic countries (vend.com)...

Sad that they acquired Finn.

Every human is not addicted to something good or bad. You're abusing the definition of addiction.

>Text is the oldest and most stable communication technology

That's completely false: Images were used for storytelling thousands of years before text (compare for instance the Lascaux paintings which are more than 17 000 years old, the Göbeklitepe sculptures and stone drawings (more than 12 000 years old), or the the more than 15 000 paintings of the City of Sefar (Algeria) which some estimate to date back as far as 20 000 years ago to the earliest text known in human history, Kish Tablet, Mesopotamia, around 3500 years old.

So many .sty (but not only) files to download elsewhere.

Maybe it's better to include them in the repository itself.

Once all the files downloaded, I run into several compiling errors.

>The problem of "doing more work and not getting compensated" is pretty well-known.

Yes, the reward for more work is always more work. Hard work is the best way to make yourself unseen. Those who get promoted are busy advertising themselves, befriending strategically and may even take credit of your work while you are busy sweating.

>My final conversation with my manager was heart-wrenching. I had prepared a script, anticipating a counter-offer or a guilt trip. Instead, I was met with soft and understanding empathy.

Too much naivety out there to mention empathy even in a startup, let alone when working for a shark as Youtube. That was rather a good news for your manager: no counter offer, but also the fact they never rewarded you internally (L5/6) was a way to push you to leave.

Author here. I do want to mention that I don't exactly know the situation my manager was in, but he definitely did not make me feel dispensible personally. He and I had long conversations about life and work and our own lives and how the company will continue.

Some manager may seem this way, but my manager (and the other direct managers I had I YouTube) felt the most human and caring people I have met. They had goals to meet, but I also felt they really cared for me (and their other reports). So I really thank them for that.

What is this new blog trend where I see capitalization disappearing ?

It's a helpful indicator that the article isn't worth reading and that it was probably written by somebody who spends too much time in chatrooms.

The 6 first books reflect the quality comments I often see here on HN.

How will you do that to stones of granite, quartz or stishovite ? Several authors and experts of all kind say what you said and what the article states are completely unfeasible.

Useful links. Thank you.

> It's like hiring a plumber then trying to tell them how to fix the toilet.

I never faced or witnessed that in software dev.

I once had to give my non-technical boss Frontpage and told him to make the fucking login page himself because nothing I did matched his exact wishes.

The result was a piece of shit, but it was his piece of shit and he loved it.

This is an awesome comment.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes – I can’t wait for the modern versions of this.

Us testers have been dealing with that crap forever. Every non-tester thinks they know how a professional tester should work, and imagines our work is just writing test cases.

By non testers, do you mean developers/UI designers and such ?

There are multiple stories of public facing applications with Microsoft active directory as the source of user accounts that speak to the worst examples of this.

I was involved in such an attempt but it never got off the ground.

If you haven't faced or witnessed it, it is a moment that you will not forget, and then over time little by little, realize it might not be so uncommon.

We don't have to seek it out, it finds us.