michaelrbock

A quote from the footnotes:

"'The most dangerous thought you can have a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.'

It's possible to misinterpret what I'm saying here. When I talk about not knowing what you're doing, I'm arguing against "expertise", a feeling of mastery that traps you in a particular way of thinking.

But I want to be clear -- I am not advocating ignorance. Instead, I'm suggesting a kind of informed skepticism, a kind of humility.

Ignorance is remaining willfully unaware of the existing base of knowledge in a field, proudly jumping in and stumbling around. This approach is fashionable in certain hacker/maker circles today, and it's poison."

Professor Redekopp was one of the best teachers I've ever had. I highly recommend any incoming CS students take him for any classes you can.

Just for some context, USC starts intro to CS with C++ and then does Data Structures in C++, then switches to Java for more advanced OOP. Upper division classes are usually in Java or C++.

I totally agree -- the quality of Udacity courses is the best of any of the online learning options (paid or free). Every time a non-CS friend asks me where to start learning to code online I point them to Udacity's CS 101 (over Codecademy or Coursera).

Sign up and put in credit card (maybe use stripe) or paypal info, choose which course you're taking (on coursera, udacity, etc.), and set an amount you want to "wager" on finishing that course (and a date to finish it by if it's a pace yourself course). Come back when the course is over and upload your certificate to prove you finished the course before the deadline (with email reminders). Make money for finishing it (paid for by people who didn't finish).

Yes I'd be interested in working on this (email in profile). I think it could be similar to http://www.gym-pact.com/ but for MOOCs (i.e. "get paid to finish MOOCs"). It could also expand to coders who have trouble finishing their side-projects (I had this idea recently).

From what I understand, the admission criteria for the GT OMS is that one is accepted conditionally until he/she passes 2 courses with a B or better, and then is fully admitted.

As some who really enjoys online courses, this is really disappointing news. I know it takes a huge amount of dedication to finish an online class (especially a free one where the cost of dropping out is zero). Hopefully Udacity et al can figure out the pedagogy before the Georgia Tech online CS masters begins (http://www.omscs.gatech.edu).

This isn't crazy at all, in fact it's been proven to be true.

The Marriott hotel chain found that guests who had something bad happen during their stay but which the Marriott fixed were actually more likely to return than those who had nothing bad happen at all.

Source: www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-48540174/how-customer-complaints-can-improve-business/

The Vergecast (http://www.theverge.com/label/the-vergecast)

This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/)

The Critical Path (http://5by5.tv/criticalpath)

Startups for the Rest of Us (http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/)

I think this would qualify as one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000815

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

Seems to me like they added course material for the first 2 weeks and then stopped...I wonder why. Anyone at Stanford with any insight?

If you use (or have used) Google Now, this is eye opening.

See pg 28 for revenue split (6-15% for UoM) and pg 40 for 8 possible revenue models.

Also, "AT&T will be the founding corporate collaborator of the program, contributing $2 million to the initiative..."

They say "AT&T hires about 30,000 employees a year" and that AT&T will provide projects for OMS CS students to work on, as well as internship and job opportunities. It also says they will be having some of their employees get the degree.

"Formal admission into the OMS CS program will require a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from an accredited institution, or a related Bachelor of Science degree with a possible need to take and pass remedial courses." -- http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/

I definitely like the addition of faster.

Back up!

Not for rails, but Google App Engine has been a pleasure for Python and Java web apps.

Agreed. I wish Twitter would change "favorite" to "like" or "star" so that people could essentially +1 other tweets with out the severity that "favorite" implies.

Why was it killed?

Does "digital content escrow for iTunes purchases" refer to Apple's grouping of multiple iTunes purchases into a single credit card transaction, as described here: http://qr.ae/T3uTd ?

And it's back up for me.

A very quick calculation (using AMZN's $61b net sales in 2012) yields about $116k per minute.

this

Yeah...my bad, I didn't see the first post until just now.

cool!