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Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:16PM (#47300950)
Resistance is futile.
Not yet. Sometimes employees if they get second bite of the big apple. PE do well in capital-intensive sectors. I'm not sure if their playbook fits the real needs of dollar stores. Instead of focusing on things like debt and aggressive cost cuts, most customers just want fair prices, stocked shelves, clean stores, friendly cashiers and basic respect—things that PE firms often ignore. In DFW, I was surprised to see 1-2 person dollar stores!
Dollar stores are private equity with a checkout lane.

In 2025, Dollar Tree sold Family Dollar to a group of private-equity firms: Brigade Capital Management, Macellum Capital Management and Arkhouse Management Co.

https://corporate.dollartree.com/news-media/press-releases/d...

It’s a business model cosplaying as poverty relief while quietly siphoning money from the people least able to lose it. They already run on a thin-staff, high-volume model. That 23% increase is not a glitch. They know their customers can’t drive across town to complain. They know the regulators won’t scale fines to revenue.

Re:Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:39PM (#46073053)
Thank you, been a rough year (mentally, financially) - super grateful to everyone here on HN!
Thanks for sharing, can't imagine how bird photographers devote weeks to plan for a single shot - may seem extreme. Being in the right location at the right time is the key. Wow!

This skill is often underrated. World is moving faster than ever. Another underrated skill is quick-decision making.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:04PM (#45562384)
I shutdown all mobile app projects this year.

This month doubling down on a small house cleaning business that I acquired https://shinygoclean.com

Instead of code, seems like SOPs have become new love language!

Code obeys logic. People obey trust. That’s the real debugging. Still learning!

Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

by Peter Medawar

I second Vaclav's book. Good for techno-optimists!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:28PM (#32308491)
Spatial Media | https://spatialmedia.io | 100% Remote in Canada

Our Mission - Spatial Media creates digital tools that help people engage with the future.

Open Roles -

  - Full Stack Developer (PHP, Laravel, Vue.js)

  - Product Designer (Feelings, not just Figma)
Job Descriptions - https://spatialmedia.io/careers

Sound like you? Send us a fun cover letter and let's have a chat asap - rohan[at]spatialmedia.ca

Re:Why I built a dictionary app on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:54PM (#32300988)
Excellent app! I had been using Obsidian (writing key-values manually) and sometimes use Spotlight (dictionary). Both are not really efficient.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022) on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:42PM (#31951687)
Spatial Media | https://spatialmedia.io | 100% Remote | Australia/Canada

Our Mission - Spatial Media creates digital tools that help people engage with the future.

Open Roles -

  - Full Stack Developer (OctoberCMS, Laravel, Vue.js, & Tailwind)

  - Product Designer (Feelings, not just Figma)

  - QA Tester (Entry-level role)
Job Descriptions - https://spatialmedia.io/careers

Sound like you? Send us a fun cover letter and let's have a chat asap - rohan[at]spatialmedia.ca

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022) on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:56AM (#31591488)
Spatial Media | https://spatialmedia.io | 100% Remote | Australia/Canada

Live out your frontend JS dream job by joining a small team working remotely throughout Australia and the world creating immersive JS-driven 3D-on-the-web and VR experiences. Open Role

Frontend Vue.js Developer - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3093659213/

To apply or ask questions, email portfolio to Rohan at rohan[at]spatialmedia.ca

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:28PM (#31241186)
Spatial Media | https://spatialmedia.io | Several Roles | 100% Remote | Australia/Canada

We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start. Work anywhere, anytime. We are results driven, not time driven.

Open Roles

* Interactive Developer - https://bit.ly/sm-interactive-dev

* 3D Visualizer - https://bit.ly/sm-visualizer

* Web Developer/Manager - https://bit.ly/sm-portal-manager

To apply or ask questions, email portfolio to Rohan at rohan[at]spatialmedia.ca

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022) on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:39PM (#30167062)
Spatial Media | Product Designer | 100% Remote | Canada | Unlimited PTO

  Homepage - https://spatialmedia.com.au/
  Product  - https://communityanalytics.ca/
  JD       - https://bit.ly/sm-designer
Live out your UI/UX dream job by joining a small team working on the future of stakeholder engagement in govtech. We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start.

Work anywhere, anytime. We are results driven, not time driven. To apply or ask questions, email portfolio to Rohan at [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022) on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:09PM (#29783091)
Spatial Media | Product Designer | 100% Remote | Canada | Unlimited PTO

  Homepage - https://spatialmedia.com.au/
  Product  - https://communityanalytics.ca/
  JD       - https://bit.ly/sm-designer
Live out your UI/UX dream job by joining a small team working on the future of stakeholder engagement in govtech. We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start.

Work anywhere, anytime. We are results driven, not time driven. To apply or ask questions, email portfolio to Rohan at [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021) on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:02AM (#29412720)
Spatial Media | Product Designer | Remote (Australia, Canada and United States) | http://spatialmedia.com.au/

  - Product Designer (mid-senior)
Live out your UI/UX dream job by joining a small team working on the future of stakeholder engagement in govtech. We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start.

Work anywhere, anytime. We are results driven, not time driven. To apply or ask questions, email Rohan at [email protected]

JD - https://app.box.com/s/guedgipxwoqc6a9h6i8xojx5vdau4brh

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021) on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:05PM (#28387539)
Spatial Media | Full-Time | Remote (North America) | http://spatialmedia.ca/

SM is an interactive visual engagement company. We are building a virtual stakeholder engagement platform and enterprise-grade tools for public and private sectors. We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start.

Work anywhere, anytime. We are results driven, not time driven.

Open roles:

  - Technical Lead (senior) - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2670330549/
  - Backend Engineer (mid-senior) 
  - DevOps Engineer (mid-senior) - Emergency hire!
  - UX Designer (mid-senior)
Technologies we use:

  - AWS EC2 / RDS / S3 / Route53
  - PHP, Laravel, Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Echo
  - NodeJs, NuxtJs, VueJs
To apply or ask questions, email Rohan at [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:10PM (#28043336)
Spatial Media | Full-Time | Remote (North America) | http://spatialmedia.ca/

SM is an interactive visual engagement company specializing in Technology for Consultation. We are building a virtual stakeholder engagement platform and enterprise-grade tools for public and private sectors. We are an all-remote company, and we've been intentionally building our culture this way from the start.

Work anywhere, anytime.

Open roles:

  - Lead Software Engineer (senior) 
  - DevOps Engineer (mid-senior) 
  - UX Designer (mid-senior)
Technologies we use:

  - AWS EC2 / RDS / S3 / Route53
  - PHP, Laravel, Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Echo
  - NodeJs, NuxtJs, VueJs
To apply, email Rohan at [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:24AM (#27707788)
Spatial Media | Senior DevOps Engineer | Remote | http://spatialmedia.ca/

We are building the future of virtual stakeholder engagement and enterprise-grade tools for public and private sectors. We are looking for a DevOps engineer to work on our infrastructure focusing on performance, reliability, health, security, and scalability.

Technologies we use:

  - AWS EC2 / RDS / S3 / Route53
  - PHP, Laravel, Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Echo
  - NodeJs, NuxtJs, VueJs
Positions are fully remote. Preference is Australia and Canada.

Email: [email protected] - happy to answer questions!

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:09PM (#25469215)
Scott H. Young completed entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science in one year [1]. That was in 2012 when MOOCs was still a new thing. Good luck, I hope your WHY is strong enough to push through difficult days.

[1] https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

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I want to say it's beyond "usable". I am using iPhone SE from 2016 - it works flawlessly imo on iOS 13.5.1
Re:Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does? on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:34AM (#22886759)
- Brushing your teeth during a long ultra-endurance event (100 miles or longer) can make you feel fresh and energetic.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:25PM (#22650282)
I recently joined a bunch of volunteers to build a web app allowing hyper-localized communities to fulfill requests using a volunteer ticketing system during the COVID-19 crisis.
Re:Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13 on Friday September 27, 2019 @04:52PM (#21096167)
@IBAction can replace @ObjC for all selectors. We put it a mandate in our code reviews. There is also NSObjectProtocol which forces (in most cases) devs to subclass NSObject.
Re:Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:26PM (#21084530)
Pure Swift for the new apps. We freak out when we see @ObjC or NSObject usage in our codebase. On a long enough timescale when Apple converts away from using Objective-C under the covers, our code will not need any modification.

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