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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by zhivota »

BeetleB wrote: post #224
azangru wrote: post #52

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> Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Does anyone remember what happened to UC Berkeley? They had a lot of their courses recorded and uploaded to youtube; an absolute joy. Then, some [beep] sued them for not making the recording accessible enough, i.e. not providing captions alongside…

You're missing important context, which is that they were required by (federal) law to provide said accommodation, and they failed to do it (some would say they chose not to do it). It was easier (cheaper) to pull the plug. Don't blame the litigant. If you don't like it, change federal law.

It's pretty easy to blame the litigant here. Without one, the courses would still be up.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by locknitpicker »

lelanthran wrote: post #367
locknitpicker wrote: post #358

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> 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. It doesn't seem you are managing to think the issue all the way through. Even if you believe you can claim that release cadence is a factor, C++26 is the latest release in a process that outputs a new version every two years. Therefore, your argument would…

You'd come to correct conclusions if you attacked arguments not people. Right now you don't stand a chance.

> You'd come to correct conclusions if you attacked arguments not people.

I refuted what arguments you tried to put together by pointing the specious reasoning behind them.

You chose to avoid the issue because you know you can't put together an argument in it's defense. No need to try to come up with an exit, mate.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by locknitpicker »

jghn wrote: post #376
locknitpicker wrote: post #301

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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. 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?

There's nuance here. Is it not being maintained because it does what it is supposed to do and there aren't any issues with it? Or is there a growing pile of issues being opened with no activity around them?

> There's nuance here. Is it not being maintained because it does what it is supposed to do and there aren't any issues with it?

The day you find a software project still in use that is done is a day worth remembering.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by lelanthran »

locknitpicker wrote: post #382
lelanthran wrote: post #367

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You'd come to correct conclusions if you attacked arguments not people. Right now you don't stand a chance.

> You'd come to correct conclusions if you attacked arguments not people. I refuted what arguments you tried to put together by pointing the specious reasoning behind them. You chose to avoid the issue because you know you can't put together an argument in it's defense. No need to try to come up with an exit, mate.

> I refuted what arguments you tried to put together by pointing the specious reasoning behind them.

You're confusing me with the person at the top of the thread. My response to you was to point you in a subtle way that you are attacking people, not arguments.

Read through your posts - the bulk of your "refutation" is basically calling the other person ignorant.

Ironic, I know.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by goodpoint »

geraldwhen wrote: post #326
goodpoint wrote: post #315

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There's ton of perfectly usable 2-years old software.

I suspect that CVE inflation has poisoned the minds of many developers. A db driver may have an issue with unsanitized user input when run against SQLite, but you only use it with oracle and sanitize input anyway, but that shows up as a 9.1 critical deployment blocker for corporate employees. Unexploitable CVEs with inflated ratings make using any open source software a pain in the butt at BigCo.

Old does not mean vulnerable.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by never_inline »

re-thc wrote: post #266
znpy wrote: post #222

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> 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…

> Some areas do, some areas not so much. It still does change and you have to adapt. E.g. > 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 And there's lots of changes here, e.g. vector stores, all the different query engine improvements, PostgreSQL IO improvements, etc and they all may impact your job. Your optimal query bac…

One thing this comment (and recruiters) don't understand is that someone with foundation can learn these things pretty fast within few months.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by Blackthorn »

komali2 wrote: post #351
Blackthorn wrote: post #348

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Where is the archive available for use?

In that link. "Uploaded" column in table is archive links. Or scroll to "archive efforts" for links to torrents.

There's nothing in the uploaded column, and the torrent link does not exist.

Edit: interestingly, refreshing the page filled out the uploaded column.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by re-thc »

never_inline wrote: post #386
re-thc wrote: post #266

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> Some areas do, some areas not so much. It still does change and you have to adapt. E.g. > 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 And there's lots of changes here, e.g. vector stores, all the different query engine improvements, PostgreSQL IO improvements, etc and they all may impact your job. Your optimal query bac…

One thing this comment (and recruiters) don't understand is that someone with foundation can learn these things pretty fast within few months.

> can learn these things pretty fast within few months.

This totally misses the point. You can learn anything pretty fast in some ways. The point of what my comment replied to was about not learning at all. It was about learning something some years ago and letting it sit like interest in a bank without investing further.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by znpy »

Libidinalecon wrote: post #331
znpy wrote: post #222

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> 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.

True, but sometimes you need a cheap course about some seasonal garbage.

A few years ago i happily spent 12€ on a course about gitlab ci that saved me quite a bit of time reading documentation and got me started within an afternoon. I had no previous experience with gitlab, but i was well versed with git.

Those were money well spent, for example.

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