jamiepenney

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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 contract drop off in 2022 when the company went throug
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 provide relevant updates as we have more information
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 his grandson was able to navigate back to New Zealand jus
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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.
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 Second Thought talks about it here: https:/&#x2F
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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.
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 caramelized onions technique last night actu
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
Mate means death in te reo Māori, which also kinda works here.
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 a both a highly visual and low-noise ver
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
> 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 - I charge probably on the low end for my ex
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
Ah nice, thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind for next time.
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 in tech (I came to work with nail polish on today
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 been discussed ad-nauseam elsewhere on the internet?
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 does X" but less of the hobbyist version
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by jamiepenney 3y ago
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 release. Personally I haven't had any issues for a
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 gentle prompting to re-read your code or the error outp
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 phone number (if I remember correctly, they didn't support
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 amount left over in the company at the end of the year
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 machine that can perform well under pressure, but doesn&#x27
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
My kids love the bin chicken stories and we aren't even aussies.
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 any timestamp fields, which threw performance of t
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
Because she got banned from Twitter and it makes Elon Musk look bad.
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
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 interesting than the "build up all the parts you need to m
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
90 minutes max for me. Awful machine.
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
I put an order in for a 14" one last night to replace my 2019 MBP, this makes me feel better about the price.
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by jamiepenney 4y ago
That's pretty intense. I'm a contractor and my clients have all been happy with my ability to work independently - they give me goals and I figure out how to meet them. That being said, I only work in high-trust environments and g
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
I've been doing .NET development for 14 years now and still enjoy it. C# is an evolving language and now that .NET is an open source cross-platform framework it's even easier to work with it. I've mostly worked at SaaS startu
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
In New Zealand, you could claim that since the manufacturer will sell a 3 year warranty that the item should last for at least that long. The Consumer Guarantees Act overrules whatever the manufacturer says and states that a device should l
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
I have this bug too. It happened with the old zwave plugin as well, my Aeotec stick just stops delivering packets if it gets bumped and I have to restart the whole system.
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by jamiepenney 5y ago
Same here - Apple Maps in New Zealand works just fine.

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