I'm not a biologist, so I'm curious to understand the implication of less oxygen in water. I can intuitively think that less life will survive, but what else happens? Is there a way to "inject" oxygen into the ocean?
I feel like assigning blame is neither here nor there. Leaders in these companies often look at what other companies are doing, and follow suite. There's an argument that Elon laying off 80% of twitter is another catalyst - so why companies not follow?
Ultimately, if hiring managers offered these roles because work was needed but no longer is, would you blame them for adjusting their approach?
How so? It costs money to store & retrieve this content, at reddit scale (100m active monthly?). Ads clearly weren't paying enough of the bills, so what's the next best option?
Thank you, this is insightful. I fall squarely between FT & Economist, so I may end up subscribing to both, but given Economist is weekly, this might be a better match for my lifestyle.
What are your recommendations for real news? I've heard FT, WSJ, and the economist, and am looking to finally commit and sign up instead of relying on free. You get what you pay for is true in this case, and I don't wanna put drama based narratives in my head, which form my perception of the world.
It's also a way for PMs who own apps to build habit-forming loops. If you download the app, you can send push notifications, deep link from email, etc. "Better experience" and all that, ultimately leading to more ad impressions or a purchases in-app.
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Wow - totally forgot about Github, after reading your exchange I think I certainly have a new avenue to look into now. I know reading about programming is never a good substitute for actually doing, but seeing other code helps out tremendously. Thanks!
I think the first part -- what I've learned in school has given me a good foundation to programming, but I'm not sure how to take functional C programming and make web apps out of my knowledge.
I've tried reading some tutorials and there is also a ton to learn, but it's mostly the pedagogy of learning something like MVC. Although, I certainly agree with what you're saying about dividing. That does help me nudge further along anytime I attempt these projects.
Heh - its funny, I was really unnerved at my last internship where I was using PHP, it felt so weird with all this abstraction because of my C background but it felt really nice being able to not worry about to details and let the magic take over as you stated.
Anyway, when you say Rails, are you talking about RoR, or just plain old Rails (is there a difference)? The stuff you learn from rails, did it teach you good software engineering or mostly implementing a specific type of web app?
Thanks for the advice though. Giving this stuff a try now!
Shoot, sorry to hear that; at the very least you have tackled a pretty challenging problem.
No doubt that discovery is something that really could've changed the app space dynamics. Something similar happened at the place I used to work - a lot of top devs were reached out to by Amazon and they initially disallowed in app advertising. The developers complied and it caused a slight panic.
Curious - how come AppDiem didn't take off? Something like that around early 2011 really could've taken off and helped with the app discovery problem. I know now there's a ton of players in the space but still!