jamiepenney

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 through a double-digit layoff.

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 to share.

"Continue to provide" implies you've shared something in the first place. This is a placeholder page.

Am I missing something?

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 just from his description of the stars. That grandson came to New Zealand on Ngātokimatawhaorua, the canoe that my family traces their ancestry back to.

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.

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.

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 a both a highly visual and low-noise version of your blog posts, considering ADHD tends to be co-morbid with stuff like ASD. Just a thought.

> 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 experience but take home almost 2.5x what I used to as a salaried worker for less time on the clock. As long as you keep a decent chunk of cash (which is easier since you're making more) then you can ride out short-term gaps between contracts. That being said, I haven't been without work for the six years I've been contracting so haven't had to dip into it yet.

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 in tech (I came to work with nail polish on today, by way of example) and it pains me to watch what should otherwise be culture-war free spaces get overtaken by it. HN isn't some bastion of "wokeness" (god I hate that term but it's a useful shortcut) but so much of the other commentary / social media spaces I frequent are caught up in the current right-wing culture warring and I'd just like some place where I can read about techy stuff without having to wade through more shitty comments about me and my friends.

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?

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 of the same.

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 while now, prior to that it was the Python upgrade and all the Z-Wave changes that caught me out. That's all stable now though so updates don't stress me out much.