They could easily have monetised the 3rd party apps with a much less negative reaction by requiring users to purchase Reddit subscriptions for access. Improving long-standing issues with the platform rather than churning through poorly implemented and largely irrelevant features would be another. Not hiring 2,000 people would've been a strong start. > I've never understood how it was supposed to be profitable They've also made the ads barely distinguishable from regular posts. > r/movies tell us who you’re most excited to see in ASTEROID CITY. Going to /r/golf I saw an ad for a Samsung phone and then: Despite this, Reddit's initial approach was to spam subreddits with low quality ads that had nothing to do with the subreddit's purpose. In advertising terms, subreddits are analogous to special interest magazines. People get pissed off because they often end up doing the opposite of what makes sense for the business and the users. Which reads as a win for those protesting to me. Whatever else his CEO skills, crisis communications and adroit use of metaphor are not spez's strong suit.Īs for the effectiveness of the strike and protests: Reddit has now been front-page news in national and international media, leading up to a planned IPO, and Not In A Good Way, even if the coverage of interviews is ham-fisted and one-sided. Compare against HN where a small fraction of profiles contribute the overwhelming majority of both comments and front-page stories. A "small number of users" discounts the activity, value, role, and influence of those people, and ignores the pervasive power-law relationships in virtually all of media, online or off. Irony of actual power-elite labeling volunteering serfs as a power elite also noted. As you continue doing this, I think you will find that desire to be confident in the material will overtake anxiety as the motive force for your studying.- Spez and Reddit created that so-called "landed gentry" through their own rules and policies, and were more than happy with it until about two weeks ago. If you continue building the habit of consistently filling all the holes you find in your knowledge, you will develop confidence that you thoroughly understand all of the material presented in class. Stay committed to your this approach to learning. You started this practice motivated by your desire to stay competitive for an academic position in the future. Consistently doing this both in and out of class is the key to truly learning from the course. That is why people make mistakes or form misconceptions.īy staying after and carefully considering every mistake and misconception, you are rebuilding what was lost when the knowledge was first communicated. There is always something lost in this process. Keep doing what you are doing! Knowledge cannot be directly transmitted from your teacher's head to yours it must be translated into a communication medium such as words or pictures. I want to add that your reaction to it extremely positive. Henry is completely right that what your struggle is normal. Neither the fact that you breezed through calc 1, nor the fact that you're struggling a bit more in calc 2, is a particularly strong indicator, especially since calc BC is very unlike the sort of math professors do. To answer your second question, we have no information about your chances of working at a university later. I bring this up because one thing you should expect while you learn calc 2 is to have to revisit things you think you were done with and realize new things about them. Learning math is a cyclical process, where you learn concepts, use them as a basis to learn additional concepts, and then return to the old concepts and learn more about them in light of what you now know. That's not a criticism it's basically impossible to fully understand the concepts of calculus 1 when you've just taken it. Relatedly, you almost certainly don't understand the concepts of calc 1. Indeed, it's an essential part of learning, because everyone eventually hits a point where they struggle, and learning how to deal with is an important skill. Struggling with material is a normal part of learning. A lot of students seem to make it through high school and well into college with the idea that school is supposed to be easy, and that having to work hard, or being confused at times, or struggling with some topics means that something has gone wrong.
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