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You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your

You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless.

nickjj 10y ago
> You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless. Yep, it costs $20. Basically the cost of chinese food for 2, to ensure guaranteed victory in learning the essentials of AWS' platform while having a guided tour on how to deploy a fault tolerant web app with Amazon ECS from start to finish. You can definitely learn everything for free, but the value in a course is that you're getting a cohesive learning path that was carefully planned and tested. You get a system that you can apply to your own projects and plenty of source code to reference. You're paying the $20 so you can avoid spending 6 months trying to figure out everything on your own while stringing together a bunch of half-assed blog posts and tutorials. You pay the small fee for certainty and it's well worth it because your time (and sanity) is not infinite.
- goldenkey 10y ago
  I love the comparison to chinese food for 2. As if everyone lives in the US with the same economic situation. Your posts are truly despicable.
  - nickjj 10y ago
    I'm sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately time is something we all share, and it brings me a lot of joy to have students say that my courses have saved them a ton of time and helped them meet their goals. I see that you recently left Amazon after making 200k/year there (a comment you made 5 days ago). I can see why you don't like people promoting Amazon products, I fully understand.
    - goldenkey 10y ago
      Condescension abounds! :-)

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You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your

by goldenkey 10y ago

You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless.

nickjj 10y ago
> You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless. Yep, it costs $20. Basically the cost of chinese food for 2, to ensure guaranteed victory in learning the essentials of AWS' platform while having a guided tour on how to deploy a fault tolerant web app with Amazon ECS from start to finish. You can definitely learn everything for free, but the value in a course is that you're getting a cohesive learning path that was carefully planned and tested. You get a system that you can apply to your own projects and plenty of source code to reference. You're paying the $20 so you can avoid spending 6 months trying to figure out everything on your own while stringing together a bunch of half-assed blog posts and tutorials. You pay the small fee for certainty and it's well worth it because your time (and sanity) is not infinite.
- goldenkey 10y ago
  I love the comparison to chinese food for 2. As if everyone lives in the US with the same economic situation. Your posts are truly despicable.
  - nickjj 10y ago
    I'm sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately time is something we all share, and it brings me a lot of joy to have students say that my courses have saved them a ton of time and helped them meet their goals. I see that you recently left Amazon after making 200k/year there (a comment you made 5 days ago). I can see why you don't like people promoting Amazon products, I fully understand.
    - goldenkey 10y ago
      Condescension abounds! :-)