That's what I plan to do and I'm assuming that the materials will remain available once the course is over like they were for the ML course, but there could be a better way to deal with left-behind students (which I believe are a big %) than making them circumvent a good chunk of the class experience (grades, email certificate), in particular I'm demotivated to do projects because instead of feeling rewarded for the work I did, I feel penalized for being late on some imposed schedule.
what you say is true, but also that getting a good grade is a strong motivator and that is not available unless you follow the deadline regime. Perhaps what is needed are more slow paced courses that you could fast track and finish faster if you wish to do so.
I don't understand what's the need to constraint these courses in X weeks duration when one of the advantages of this presentation is to allow self paced study. I started the PGM course and found it interesting but cannot spend +10 hours per week on it just to get an email certificate in the end. I can do Kahn academy classes anytime I want right? why in coursera do I have to pretend I'm taking a college class?
your post describes so well how I was feeling about a year ago before I switched jobs, and I regret so much that I just didn't leave sooner even if it meant being unemployed for a few months, because life doesn't come back and I didn't really need the money. That was my case, not saying you should do this or that, I'm just saying to never leave happiness for tomorrow, that only worked for Cinderella.
I would have loved to see what these guys have to say about Scala critically, but that's not what they are doing, this is a half baked unfunny joke that does not inspire any debate, only flaming and bashing. Is good that you talk about fanboyism because that's what this article is about, clojure fanboyism to be precise
Why does a scala centric company publishes such a poor flame bait article against scala? I think this is just a joke and not to be taking seriously in any way
I can't sustain anything over 40h for more than a month, in fact I think I would be almost as productive if I worked 30h instead of 40h, maybe I'm just not insane enough.
"The company pool in Dublin seems large enough ... relative to the size of the city" might be true but the city ranks 34th in Europe by population, its just my opinion from my observations but I have been underwhelmed on the opportunities available for IT in Dublin on 2010-2011 when I was looking actively.
I can tell you that my employers are having such difficulties hiring good engineers here in Dublin that they are opening another shop on east Europe. Might be matter of €€€, I don't know, but the pool of both companies and candidates is quite small here.
I was expecting that that the game was aimed to iOS devices because of those pictures, kept reading waiting for the revolutionary touch interface to be mentioned
very cool site you should be the one in front page, do you get the colors out of the picture at random or you do some analysis to assign the darkest color to the background or something similar?
IBM is in no position to compete with Google or even Microsoft on this marker, it targets the slow and big companies that want "their own facebook" or their own "google docs" on their intranet, so don't expect this to be a consumer level offering even if it is on the "cloud".
I remember hearing in one of the first StackOverflow podcast that Jeff wanted to release the software as OS in and indefinite future, guess that Joel did not support that and now they are too successful to consider it again, in any case I can see why it would be disadvantageous after they changed their business model from third party hosted Q&A sites to the Area51 process.
what's wrong with ubuntu 10.04? it's still in support and has gnome 2.X
I will use it until either gnome shell or unity until get mature enough, there is no need to change OS every 6 months.
anybody knows if this means that something like a lift project or a scala play project now work on heroku? I only see a finagle example but that's not a web framework
good explanation of procedural vs OO programming, but I got kind of lost with the -er tip, is it all about naming conventions, should I go and rename all my ZzzXxxer classes to XxxxZzz?
I don't think the problem with Gnome3 or Unity is that it's hard to switch back, is that they are incomplete prototypes that are being forced upon us to replace a mature and time tested platform. What is really wrong is that canonical is releasing glorified betas as major versions, hopefully 12.04 LTS will be an actual release.