I think the people at Samsung will laugh to tears if Apple will be asked to modify their page once more. This is another great example of corporate trolling.
Let's see: stem cells -> eggs -> ovary tissue -> natural ovaries -> oocytes -> removed from ovaries -> fertilized -> transplanted into "foster mothers"... To me, that sounds like a combination between Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage
While these online courses are not as rigorous, well structured and of the same quality as Stanford / MIT / Oxford / whatever courses, I do think that most of them are much better than what students usually get at standard universities in poorer countries. Does anyone from Romania want to contradict me?
Even though there is enough room for improvement, there are many students in other countries who don't even have access to courses such as Machine Learning, Cryptography, Quantum Computing, etc so any introduction to such topics is most welcome.
I think that in a few years they will only get better, based on feedback received from the forums as well as from the quizzes. Also, they should implement some mechanism to determine which segments of the videos are re-winded over and over, since those might need clarifications. A term index is also welcome.
Just think about it: if an online course doesn't live up to the expectations of the students, then it will just die out when they will stop following it. Now, compare this to a professor who teaches poorly a certain course: generations upon generations of students will be forced to try and make sense of that course, because they have no other alternative.
I personally followed Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning and, while it wasn't rigorous regarding the mathematics, it did offer me a really good intuition on how those algorithms work, as well as the required terminology to be able to start reading a book on this subject. I also followed Jennifer Widom's course on databases, which was really, really good and Dan Boneh's course on Cryptography helped me get a decent understanding of this subject for my current job.
So, we should encourage them to improve the courses instead of just yelling that some of them doesn't really live up to "the standards".
It's quite funny that people with modest coding skills still believe that they can make good money as freelancers. Putting aside the rare occasions when you find (a fat pigeon) some clueless and wealthy investors, if you're not backed up by some company with a nice portfolio, then you're usually out of luck.
A few years ago, I was digging around sites like rent-a-coder to see if it's even remotely feasible to make some money as a freelancer. What I found was a swamp of "experts" who were willing to code youtube clones for 100$ and small companies that posed as users with perfect ratings.
My conclusion is that if you're good enough and you have many years of experience in the industry, then you're better off as a consultant for (big) companies, paid by the hour. Otherwise, just find a nice job at a company that's willing to invest time in training you, and, heck, you might end up learning how to code while making some money as well.
How do you have sex with someone while that person is sleeping? Also, how did those girls end up sleeping with him in the first place? It's just silly...
Yeah, she tripped, fell, and landed on his Captain Johnes, takng him by surprise. The standard swedish girl could break him in two, considering how feeble he is, so I am quite sure that the girls were encouraged by some 3rd parties to press charges, just because they don't have any other reason to throw the book at him. This whole legal issue of his sounds more like getting charged for stealing candy from a baby.
I used to work for Misys until recently. They are doing some development on their Summit application http://www.misys.com/products/summit-ft.aspx in the far East as well. You could try to look 'em up, although if the work conditions are similar to what the offer in Romania, you're probably better of in a different company.
Also, you should note that the entire backend of the application (which runs on a complex distributed server architecture) is written in C, which they tried really hard to upgrade to C++, and it ended up being a big maintenance from hell nightmare. Also, they decided to make a "fancy" C# frontend desktop application for that backend, which is full of bugs. As a side note, don't expect much documentation about the code structure and internal logic, just many 6000+ line functions of C code;)
They're going to get buried into history if they don't stop this cheap soap-opera with the CEO(s)... The internet changes much faster than the real world. One day you're at the top, tomorrow you're nobody: there once was a site called myspace, and the rest is history:)
I find it rather odd that they have the required traffic to keep going. Just look at Yahoo Answers for example. Or the trending topics featured on Yahoo Mail. Or... They're lucky that my main email address is @yahoo.com, because otherwise I would have ditched them a long time ago.
Call me curious, but what does Yahoo! offer these days besides a buggy version of Gmail and Flickr? I'm almost sure that nobody is using their search engine, which is supposed to be powered by Bing anyway...
Slashdot Mirror
Why so serious? :)
"401 Authorization Required" - The irony...
Not necessarily. It depends on what your needs are and how much money are you willing to invest.
Only if he can compile the schematics into chips.
Strange. I'm using 1366x768 and the page has height 1010px on Firefox, so I have to scroll around 200px to actually see the link.
I think the people at Samsung will laugh to tears if Apple will be asked to modify their page once more. This is another great example of corporate trolling.
Let's see: stem cells -> eggs -> ovary tissue -> natural ovaries -> oocytes -> removed from ovaries -> fertilized -> transplanted into "foster mothers"... To me, that sounds like a combination between Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage
While these online courses are not as rigorous, well structured and of the same quality as Stanford / MIT / Oxford / whatever courses, I do think that most of them are much better than what students usually get at standard universities in poorer countries. Does anyone from Romania want to contradict me?
Even though there is enough room for improvement, there are many students in other countries who don't even have access to courses such as Machine Learning, Cryptography, Quantum Computing, etc so any introduction to such topics is most welcome.
I think that in a few years they will only get better, based on feedback received from the forums as well as from the quizzes. Also, they should implement some mechanism to determine which segments of the videos are re-winded over and over, since those might need clarifications. A term index is also welcome.
Just think about it: if an online course doesn't live up to the expectations of the students, then it will just die out when they will stop following it. Now, compare this to a professor who teaches poorly a certain course: generations upon generations of students will be forced to try and make sense of that course, because they have no other alternative.
I personally followed Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning and, while it wasn't rigorous regarding the mathematics, it did offer me a really good intuition on how those algorithms work, as well as the required terminology to be able to start reading a book on this subject. I also followed Jennifer Widom's course on databases, which was really, really good and Dan Boneh's course on Cryptography helped me get a decent understanding of this subject for my current job.
So, we should encourage them to improve the courses instead of just yelling that some of them doesn't really live up to "the standards".
It's quite funny that people with modest coding skills still believe that they can make good money as freelancers. Putting aside the rare occasions when you find (a fat pigeon) some clueless and wealthy investors, if you're not backed up by some company with a nice portfolio, then you're usually out of luck. A few years ago, I was digging around sites like rent-a-coder to see if it's even remotely feasible to make some money as a freelancer. What I found was a swamp of "experts" who were willing to code youtube clones for 100$ and small companies that posed as users with perfect ratings. My conclusion is that if you're good enough and you have many years of experience in the industry, then you're better off as a consultant for (big) companies, paid by the hour. Otherwise, just find a nice job at a company that's willing to invest time in training you, and, heck, you might end up learning how to code while making some money as well.
They probably invented this for people who have trouble parking their cars in tight spaces. No more fender benders :)
Funny, but let's try not to get offtopic :)
Oh, c'mon... I wasn't trying to insult anyone. If the people around here are sensitive to such things (I rather doubt it), I'll help myself next time.
How do you have sex with someone while that person is sleeping? Also, how did those girls end up sleeping with him in the first place? It's just silly...
Yeah, she tripped, fell, and landed on his Captain Johnes, takng him by surprise. The standard swedish girl could break him in two, considering how feeble he is, so I am quite sure that the girls were encouraged by some 3rd parties to press charges, just because they don't have any other reason to throw the book at him. This whole legal issue of his sounds more like getting charged for stealing candy from a baby.
Let their demon hear you, bro! :)
I used to work for Misys until recently. They are doing some development on their Summit application http://www.misys.com/products/summit-ft.aspx in the far East as well. You could try to look 'em up, although if the work conditions are similar to what the offer in Romania, you're probably better of in a different company. Also, you should note that the entire backend of the application (which runs on a complex distributed server architecture) is written in C, which they tried really hard to upgrade to C++, and it ended up being a big maintenance from hell nightmare. Also, they decided to make a "fancy" C# frontend desktop application for that backend, which is full of bugs. As a side note, don't expect much documentation about the code structure and internal logic, just many 6000+ line functions of C code ;)
You definitely need to apply this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem ;)
Those aren't drivers. It's just some binary files filled with random bits.
That's good to know :D Thanks! :)
They're going to get buried into history if they don't stop this cheap soap-opera with the CEO(s)... The internet changes much faster than the real world. One day you're at the top, tomorrow you're nobody: there once was a site called myspace, and the rest is history :)
I find it rather odd that they have the required traffic to keep going. Just look at Yahoo Answers for example. Or the trending topics featured on Yahoo Mail. Or... They're lucky that my main email address is @yahoo.com, because otherwise I would have ditched them a long time ago.
Call me curious, but what does Yahoo! offer these days besides a buggy version of Gmail and Flickr? I'm almost sure that nobody is using their search engine, which is supposed to be powered by Bing anyway...