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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by Libidinalecon »

znpy wrote: post #222
TheSkyHasEyes wrote: post #163

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> Modern society totally devalues anything considered even slightly old. Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast. If I were looking for info on cooking, baking, knitting sure... but IT stuff, I opine many of us seek the latest info because of the breakneck speeds this profession is known for.

> Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast. Some areas do, some areas not so much. I have a colleague that's incredibly strong with databases (we use a mix of MySQL and PostgreSQL) and he's living off the learning he did 20 years ago when he was a junior Oracle consultant. I live off the learning I did in Linux now that I administer Kubernetes clusters for a living. Once you get past the "c…

For udemy classes though it is hard to know what is timeless knowledge vs what is outdated crap starting out.

That is why there isn't much else to go but the heuristic of the most new class with the most ratings.

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Post by exe34 »

locknitpicker wrote: post #301
nickjj wrote: post #170

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Yep, you're definitely not wrong. We see it all the time on GitHub. If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. The same thing with blogs in general. A post could be popular and ranked highly in 2020 but in 2025 it's not even ranked on a search engine, even if the content is still highly relevant and fully working. It's bad because you could have a 10+ year old site with 500+ p…

> Yep, you're definitely not wrong. We see it all the time on GitHub. If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. There is a difference between being dead and not actively maintained. If a popular FLOSS package isn't touched for many moons, do you think it just means it's done?

I wish the underlying platforms would also consider providing a "done" version now and again, instead of bundling bug/security fixes with new problems. You can rarely just write something and call it done on something like Android. Anything other than a simple crud/webview wrapper will usually need to use permissions of some sort to do useful things, and as soon as you start using anything like that, your code is probably obsolete in a day or two.

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Post by bpt3 »

bdangubic wrote: post #210
bpt3 wrote: post #159

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They have not, because a large portion of the knowledge obtained by subject matter experts in any given field has never been published. Also, hallucinations are still a thing, and there's a reason why LLMs do not outperform subject matter experts in nearly every field.

I was being facetious but am now extremely curious about large portion of the knowledge obtained by subject matter experts in any given field has never been published - this is not only strange to me in the small but you are claiming that this is large portion so I am wondering if you have any example(s) to share?

Ah, sorry I missed that.

Academics, whose entire careers are based on publishing knowledge, only publish a fraction of their total knowledge obtained over their career. Estimates are that only 10-20% of all knowledge is explicit.

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Post by lelanthran »

locknitpicker wrote: post #314
SkiFire13 wrote: post #309

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> If it's a headers-only library in a language such as C++, if the project is not dead then the very least anyone would expect from it is being updated to support any of the modern C++ versions. Did I miss a new C++ version released <2 days ago perhaps?

> Did I miss a new C++ version released You certainly are missing something. C++26 was officially released 4 months ago, and support is slowly being rolled out to compilers and packages. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/26.html If you somehow believe this kind of work is done in a couple of days, that's a good way to explain to the world how oblivious you are about the topic you are discussing.

> If you somehow believe this kind of work is done in a couple of days, that's a good way to explain to the world how oblivious you are about the topic you are discussing.

And, in turn, you appear to be oblivious to the point - the release cadence of this best-case scenario still means like a decade between updates to the project.

C++26 was released 4months ago; pointless to update it until compilers and deps are updated. So, best case is maybe you'll have complete bug-tested support in the supported compilers in 2030.

If we're looking at 2035-ish for the next release, we're still only looking at 2040 before you update.

You still have to take into account that updating might not even be necessary. It's not like C++ < C++26 suddenly doesn't work.

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Post by ghaff »

Andrex wrote: post #275
ivape wrote: post #196

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I think Fitness definitely caught on though. You could say it was a constant recurring self-promise some prior generations made, but our current generations are not lacking on a focus on fitness. Education is not too different. We’re not exactly a society that goes “Going to dig into an interesting course this weekend with the wife”, no, nowhere near that. Takes time, generations.

I'm starting to learn human history is people getting bored of something and then it takes a generation or two before it's exciting all over again. Fashion, I suppose.

There's definitely novelty, fashion, and fads. There's no particular reason why rollerblading essentially went away in the US after being a pretty popular activity for a time. In consumer tech, auction sites didn't go away but they certainly declined.

Sometimes, there are reasons--far fewer people shoot pics with dedicated cameras today for obvious reasons. But sometimes, things that were a novelty just get boring for most.

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

locknitpicker wrote: post #304
malfist wrote: post #289

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And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developers

> And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developer In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shit about React fundamentals.

> In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shit about React fundamentals.

Nah you won't. Js frameworks comme and go all the time

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Post by renjieliu »

nickjj wrote: post #83

I was a Udemy instructor for ~10 years selling tech courses but focused more on delivering courses through my own site for the last ~5-6 years. Something never felt right with how Udemy promoted courses. I used to have a top selling course there, selling thousands of copies a month and now it gets basically no sales but it's still one of the highest rated courses in that niche on their platform. It's just no longer r…

Wow hey Nick, I took your docker course on udemy a few years ago. Even these days, I am revisiting it. Gotta say it's one of the best courses I have taken. For me, it was not the recommending system from udemy brought me to it, it was just a google search. I was interested in docker container at that time. Maybe SEO works better for the niche.

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Post by locknitpicker »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #336
locknitpicker wrote: post #304

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> And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developer In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shit about React fundamentals.

> In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shit about React fundamentals. Nah you won't. Js frameworks comme and go all the time

> Nah you won't. Js frameworks comme and go all the time

React was released 12 years ago, and since then a few React clones popped up as well such as Preact.

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Post by cindyllm »

locknitpicker wrote: post #304
malfist wrote: post #289

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And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developers

> And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developer In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shit about React fundamentals.

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