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Everyone prepared for disappointment?

Yep, and it seems the more experienced they are, the more likely they are to experience this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

Nope, I'm stuck on Hacker News.

Anyone else here also signs up for these courses, then never logs in?

Yes, I'm guilty of that too. The main reason I don't take more courses is the time it takes to take them. I've taken 3 courses (databases, algorithms I & II), and they were all great, but required a lot of work. So while I'm tempted to sign up for more, I need to have the time available to take them too. This is similar to buying books, but not having the time to read them (something I'm guilty of as well ;-))

I wrote about the courses I took. Here's about the last one: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...

Everyone else, apparently: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/12/27/moocs-inflated-expectati...

I sign up for a lot of courses, but I drop maybe half of them a week in. Usually because it's more work than my casual interest in the subject warrants.

On the other hand, since these things started, I've finished 12 courses in a variety of fields.

I'm signed up for 5 classes starting in the next couple months, I'll probably finish maybe 3 of those. We'll see. :-)

Most of it in my case is learning for its own sake, but MOOCs are just about the best part of the internet for me. I took a Neural Networks class from Hinton and there's an upcoming class on Financial Markets from Robert Shiller. It's hard to beat that kind of access to teaching by absolute leaders in their fields.

I sign up for a lot of these, but am only interested in the material offered, not actually taking the course. Because of this, there are courses I never revisit, I just sign-up to save them for future reference.

my completion rate is somewhere around 30%, mainly because some courses are not what I expected to be, or I realize I'm not that interested in the subject.

I just finished the ML course.

yeah, me too

Just finished yesterday

TLDR

I love the irony.

ya, but each of the factors of 2013 is prime, so that's gotta mean something, right?

Isn't always possible to deconstruct the factors of a number in only primes?

I think ruttiger may mean that 2013 is the product of three unique primes (e.g. 30=2 * 3 * 5 would be another example, but 50=5^2 * 2 is not).

Why are you trying to contact them to remove the hidden text?

From his HN bio:

>I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.

It's a joke

A dark one, given that the maintainer in all likelihood was one of the people who committed suicide.

LOL.

maybe to improve their SEO.

WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?

Could you easily move out of GAE? I made a site on that platform a couple years ago for fun, and would get anxious every time I'd get an email from them with terms of service or API changes.

Not too easy, but not as hard as people expect either. The App Engine SDK is open sourced. This is the layer that connects your code to Google's infrastructure. There are a couple of projects that have taken that SDK and modified it to connect to MySQL, MongoDB, memcached, and so on. They allow you to run your GAE app on your own server, without changing your code. I tried typhoonAE a while ago and managed to get my app running on another server with about a day of work.