We do a book exchange. We tell all would be givers that we will not accept gifts but only used/new books. You come to our house and give one of your books to our child and we will give you one back in return. Works for birthday parties too.
These are likely seasonal job losses like retail or related. You have to do Year over Year comparisons for jobs. Month over month comparisons are misleading because of seasonality
If January had the highest number of jobs since the Great Depression and we have returned to the March mean, this could still be true while there was absolutely nothing interesting going on.
If there was an unusually high peak of seasonal jobs just prior to the months in question, that would be an utterly meaningless statistic. If it's a moderate random drop coinciding with the end of a somewhat high seasonal number, it's still not relevant to long-term outlook. That's why monthly numbers are difficult to use in isolation.
Same experience here. A few of my developers migrated our servers to DO 2 years ago to "save" a few hundred dollars. Turns out DO has planned downtime every other month and its cost us 100x more in staff and headache dealing with them. You can't run a SaaS or anything that requires uptime reliability (ie, any sizable business) . I've transferred our main site back to AWS. Also AWS dedicated pricing is now almost the same as DO, and much more reliable.
But congrats to the DO team. They will only get better.
So, Digital Ocean doesn't have great reliable up time then? I've been using OpenShift's free hosting tier to host a Ghost blog, and it goes down CONSTANTLY, making it unusable. I was about to start paying the $5 a month plan with Digital Ocean, but I'm not going to if it also goes down frequently.
Heh. Nearly the same thing here but on a personal projects level, no company stuff. I really wanted it to be something I did or for there to be a solution because migration is never fun, but I finally had to bite the bullet.
EDIT: had no idea about the planned downtime. Maybe that explains the random chaos issues I had.
If you listen to everyone here, they'll ask you to finish school. That is the safe bet and "prudent" choice.
If you want to be a founder, you'll never be comfortable taking the "safe" route. Go for it. Do it when you're young and you're able to take risk. No regrets, whichever path you take. Good luck.
She can do it when she is young after finishing the degree. She will still be young at 21 and she will still be able to afford risk at that point. The other thing to note is that people found companies at all sorts of ages. If she has that founder spirit, she will find a way.
And you know zero about her/his background. She/he is korean meaning that the society puts a lot of pressure at her and mostly her life / career has already been predetermined which i have to say is fucking unimaginable for a lot of people.
She wants to change that and take a risk and explore the endless possibilities. Do you know what does it mean to finish the degree in Korea ?
I stand corrected. Am I to understand that finishing a degree actually closes doors as opposed to opens them in Korea? That a degree earned in Korea is not worth much elsewhere? And that in two years she will have further cemented a life that she is doomed to live? If so, then I would have thought that she would have no desire to finish the degree and would not be conflicted to begin with. But you are right that I do not fully know the circumstances and should not be eager to dispense advice. Maybe she wants to finish the degree for the sake of someone else, though there was no mention of this. I was assuming a "she" due to "jenny" but it could be a "he". I would love to learn more about the tradeoffs in Korea. Given the long term desire to be based in the states, you and I are making an excellent point -- it is worth considering that people outside Korea may not be fully aware of the tradeoffs. In my defense, the question was directed at a global forum without the context being fully presented initially...
Is software free trial similar to this? Don't we, as developers, give our software for free in either a freemium or free trial business models? One freemium tool I'm involved in only monetizes 2-3% of our users... But it's a model that works as far as marketing goes.. Not saying you shouldn't pay artists but isn't this another form of marketing to users? In the end, it's win-win. Apple gets more users, artists gets more listens...
Do you know if these kinds of interactive content perform better (ie clicks/shares/views) vs other forms, ie longform or just plain data visualization pieces? I personally enjoyed it a lot.
This isn't really my area of expertise - we have people at the company dedicated to studying this kind of thing in far more detail than I know how, who may end up reading this - hi! - so I don't want to speak out of turn.
But in my experience there's a lot of variation - things like this interactive aren't as tied to the news cycle as many articles are, so it won't peak as high but may make up for it in longer term traffic.
