Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

Post by bkrishnan » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

BossingAround wrote: post #44

otras wrote: post #9

I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Highly unpopular opinion, I know, but I didn't find learning how to learn very useful. It might as well have been a 30-minute video, and it wouldn't lose much of its content. A lot of the content seems to be rather inspirational than educational.

Is there a CliffsNotes version of the content?

Post by jholman » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 8:06 AM UTC

redis_mlc wrote: post #29

jholman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP, but I don't trust startups to responsibly handle my PII. It's not a good gamble, based on incentives, and also based on recorded history. They usually don't encrypt it, they usually don't understand their own backup system, they usually have employees who copy it as "sample data" or "seed data" to developer laptops which are then stolen with some probability greater than 1%, they usually don't delete data on…

> I don't trust startups to responsibly handle my PII. Smart, but: Any web developer knows most uploads go to a folder on disk ... likely readable by the web server process. Harvest away!

That's a "but"? That sounds like you're agreeing!

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