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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.

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.

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!

Excellent app! I had been using Obsidian (writing key-values manually) and sometimes use Spotlight (dictionary). Both are not really efficient.

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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.

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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

- Brushing your teeth during a long ultra-endurance event (100 miles or longer) can make you feel fresh and energetic.

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.

@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.

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.