Good old Udemy Elixr/Pheonix courses being irrelevant within 6 months but still trying to con people by saying they’re updated to current year.

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    13 days ago

    Somewhere around here I have a “Learn C++ in 24 hours” book that was published in 1999. I have a feeling that a modern C++ expert would react the same way 22nd century McCoy reacted to 20th century medicine in Star Trek IV.

    (For you youngsters, I’ll-get-around-to-its and nope-not-for-mes who haven’t seen it, he mutters things about “dark ages” and “Spanish Inquisition”. The whole movie is goofy, including the otherwise terrifying main plot point.)