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Yeah I would say the same thing. Slower hiring overall but less big layoffs. I'm a contractor and haven't had much of a shortage in work for a while now, but we did have a big cont…

Does anyone have any _actual_ information about what has happened? This seems like the email was sent out too early - I've got nothing actionable to go off. > We will continue to p…

Polynesian navigators were amazing at navigating via the stars. Kupe made the journey from Hawaiki (it's still unclear exactly where that is though) to New Zealand and back, and hi…

I must have entered my wife's name in lower case at some point, because it autocompletes everyone else's names with a capital but leaves hers lower cased.

I've seen it convincingly argued that large corporations like Walmart operate like a planned economy internally, even if they are acting in an externally unplanned economy. JT from…

Gotta start somewhere, capitalism in it's current form has only been around for a few hundred years at best. Too many people have bought into Fukuyama's The End of History imo.

I came here to talk about ATK, Lan Lam is amazing and has really helped me make nicer dinners https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnbzopdwFrnYyvwrqTB_5... I just used her fast c…

Mate means death in te reo Māori, which also kinda works here.

Not sure if you've already done it, but I find the current state of it just fine - I wouldn't say it's overboard. Not to put extra work on you, but I wonder if it's worth creating …

> I'm now afraid I've priced my self out of the NZ market and will have a rude landing if I'm forced back into the NZ market (you never know, things happen). Just go contracting - …

Ah nice, thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind for next time.

I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid. There's definitely a lot more non-conforming people of all types…

Is this really appropriate for a tech forum? Not getting into a flame war about who is right here, can Hacker News actually bring anything useful to this discussion that hasn't bee…

I like these kinds of blog posts. Not because he's ditching mongo, I like the detail around his thought process because there's an over-abundance of articles about "large company d…

Yeah I have the same approach - I don't update the second a new release comes out, and check the comments to see what the earlybirds have encountered just in case it's a bad releas…

Yep pretty much this. I was a contract interviewer with Karat for a few years and taught people how to conduct interviews. There's a graded scale of assistance, anything more than …

I will never use Paypal ever again. I created my account when I was still at university, around 2005 I think. They wanted a phone number for verification so I gave them my home pho…

I'm one of the managing directors for a 3-person software development co-operative. We each made around double the market rate for developers in our country last year, with a small…

Yeah I was going to say, this reminds me of the Pentium 4 days when Intel ran into problems with both maxing out the clock speed and their huge instruction pipeline. I just want a …

My kids love the bin chicken stories and we aren't even aussies.

I like Marten, but they broke stuff around timestamps pretty badly with the latest release. A good chunk of that is Npgsql's fault, but we lost the ability to duplicate / index on …

Because she got banned from Twitter and it makes Elon Musk look bad.

I found I enjoyed the process of putting together a mall from a blueprint, but leaving the rest of the factory up to me. I find the logistics and planning part of factorio more int…

90 minutes max for me. Awful machine.

I put an order in for a 14" one last night to replace my 2019 MBP, this makes me feel better about the price.