Last time I checked, the ads on the web were alright, but the experience on mobile was extremely hostile, with constant ads and deliberately sssssllllooooowwwllllyy aaanniimmmaaaattteeeeddd reminders to push you to pay for Duolingo Plus.
When reviewing lessons you're already familiar with, you tend to spend more time watching ads and Plus reminders than actually learning anything.
Duolingo is great to get your feet wet, but its teaching model doesn't scale past A2/B1 levels (and in speaking/listening even less so). This valuation is enormous for a company that's virtually been for 10 years in losses.
So far Duolingo has made the experience more painful to free users to push them to pay, and yet hasn't managed to get out of the red. I think the main that most learners are from developing countries learning English, so Duolingo Plus can be a hard sell.
I bet the money influx will help push whatever projects they have in mind, but while private, and I say this as a language learning ethusiast, their approaches have been completely misdirected. Personally I'd be wary to throw my money there, but will certainly reevaluate it next quarter.
Spanish speaker here. X after N is basically non existing in Spanish. Most people who don't speak other languages will struggle pronouncing that. Spanish speaking woke-alikes use "e" or "@", or unnecessarily repeat the words in both genders.
Also in Latin(American) includes Portuguese and French speakers. Limit it to Spanish language/culture/heritage would be Hispanicx, which is also nonsensical, especially because I just made it up.
But I'm just a person who speaks Spanish, French and Portuguese, so take my word with a grain of salt.
Strongly agree. I arrive first one in the office because I also want to leave early, it takes me a while to get warmed up and productive.
When I'm peaking it's stand up time because it's the earliest time when everybody is available.
The best standups I had were at a previous job, after lunch:
1. A major interruption already happened.
2. Your "mind cache" is fresh and you know what blocks you, compared to remembering what you were doing the day before. People systematically forget stuff during early morning stand up then come interrupt you for questions hours later.
Depends on the RDBMS, but for big ones it's common practice to tune[0] them to allocate a big chunk of memory (or all of it) and let them manage caching by themselves. After all, they know better about the structure of the db files than the OS.
ZFS has a good share, if not 100%, of the same problems as Btrfs, and in the end of the day it's always matter of leaving files/directories/volumes without CoW, which is hardly a software rewrite as the grandparent insinuated, and more of a packaging issue.