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This program was just announced. So the first cohort hasn't started yet. There are a bunch of OMSCS students in this thread though who have taken some of the classes.
Back when they were oDesk, I lived in a remote area with no technology jobs. I ended up working for oDesk for a 6 mo stint (Actually for oDesk not a third party). So I'm familiar with the ecosystem. I was just wondering if it was web dev or something more specialized.
What kind of work are you doing? If you don't mind my asking...
It's definitely a race to the bottom but it also represents a good opportunity for junior developers even in developed countries. I've gotten $35/hour jobs before which isn't great but it isn't peanuts either.
As far as I know this has always been the case. oDesk had a screenshot tracking program too for hourly jobs prior to the merger and rebranding.
You're right. Maybe I was confusing it with the Metropolitan Commuter tax.
This happens all of the time. For example, it is very common to live in NJ and work NYC. In that case, you pay NYC tax, NY and NJ tax and receive credit for your NJ tax based on the NY state tax you pay.
Not to be pedantic but the article is about NY state, NJ, CT etc. Many people live in NY state but do not live in NYC. Additionally, as the article explains, some people try to live outside of the state for over half the year in order to avoid paying state taxes. Presumably, there are considerable financial and personal incentives for maintaining some presence in NY state. So, the answer to your question is yes because the people in question are still typically maintaining a residence in a high tax state.
Soaps and detergents are not hydrophobic. They are part hydrophilic and part lipophilic which is how they pull lipids into the water when you wash something.
> we accept some risks while walking bicycles across multi-lane highways at night without watching for oncoming traffic.
The accident occurred on a surface street in a fairly busy area right down the street from ASU's main campus where there tend to be a lot of pedestrians and bikers
It looks like the script is there to block phantomjs based bots (which can evaluate JS). It seems to check for the global properties mentioned in this article:
https://blog.shapesecurity.com/2015/01/22/detecting-phantomj...
If the properties are defined, it doesn't do anything, otherwise it reloads the page.
It is obfuscated but that seems to be what's going on anyway.
I'm taking ML in the fall and I've already taken ML4T and RL. So the order I went in was ML4T -> RL -> ML. My understanding is that's roughly in order of increasing difficulty (although I do suspect RL has gotten a little harder over the last year).
Both ML4T and ML have some RL component. So there's overlap. If you're new to python, then I'd definitely recommend ML4T first because it spends a bunch of time on Pandas/Numpy. ML4T is also easier to get into than ML if it's your first semester.
Take a look at the course review site also. It's really helpful in estimating difficulty:
https://omscentral.com/reviews
Like others have noted, you need some Bachelor's degree minimally. But you don't need to take the GRE.
Get on the omscs-study slack. It's really helpful (and fun). Good luck!
Yes but it's a significant commitment. I work full time and take one course a semester. It's definitely doable but occasionally very stressful.
There is a specialization for Computing Systems:
https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-computing-system...
I think most Computer Science education is focused on fundamentals. So there isn't anything that's CS that will focus on the latest thing. That said, I think any of the specializations will make you a better software engineer. Also, the price... you just can't beat 7K. I don't think there's anything out there that competes on price and quality.
No, they admit people without a BS in CS but I think they want to make sure you'll be able to succeed in the program. So it helps to have professional software engineering experience or some other coursework.
I'm halfway through the OMSCS in the machine learning specialization. It has been a great experience so far and definitely worth it for me.
A couple of things to consider: As you mentioned, it is more focused on Computer Science than Software Engineering/Development. There are a couple of Software Engineering/Architecture/Testing courses but I haven't taken them so I can't comment on how relevant I think they are to my day job.
It's an incredible bargain... 7-8K for an MS (not an online MS) from a top 10 school in CS. That on it's own makes it worth it for me.
It's not easy and it's not like a typical Coursera/Udacity course. Depending on which courses you take it can be quite challenging (which is a good thing). You typically don't have much interaction with the Professors but there are a lot of TAs and other students to help you along the way.
Here's a reddit in case you haven't come across it that answers many questions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/
And here's an awesome course review site that a student built:
https://omscentral.com/reviews
I've completed three of the courses in the ML specialization on coursera (The UW one) and I'd definitely recommend it. It uses python (which I prefer over R or matlab) and it's really well organized with good lectures.
I don't think that naming the name of the company involved was doxxing. I think of doxxing as getting personal information to use in coordinated harassment of an individual. To the degree that occurred, I think it's unfortunate. (And I imagine it did occur).
I found Penny's story very believable and felt really bad for many of the individuals involved (the H1-B workers most of all). There was probably a lot of professional pressure on Penny not to be seen as a troublemaker and not to name the company's name. There is a definite information asymmetry between management and workers and I feel like wrkriot was using that to exploit their employee's trust.
It seems fair to out them for that so they can't just change their name and do it again (which was clearly a pattern). Had they not been mostly a fraud, they might have been able to provide a reasonable defense against the story. Had the fraud continued, in order to protect innocent employees, it most likely would have just hurt more people.
It's definitely not black and white but I don't think we harassed them out of business either. It was definitely all about to fall apart regardless.
I think 1for.one is the old name, then they changed it to jobsonic and, more recently, to wrkriot.com.
> The way I see it, Andrew Ng is an entrepreneur co-founder with a startup called Coursera. He makes his courses free, because he's a good guy, and free attracts the audience that makes his platform worth something.
I liked this class and Andrew seems like a great guy but I'd like to point out that it's no longer free to take the evaluations for Coursera courses. Coursera is a startup and needs to find a way to monetize the courses to stay in business. I have no problem with that but I think its a little disingenuous to present Coursera as a free service when its clearly not.