I know that many experienced developers are willing to forgo their free time in order to answer questions for beginners, hence, stackoverflow, but I am curious how the psychological difference of committing 30 minutes to a single person in a one-on-one experience will play out. Very cool idea if it has enough liquidity.
One of the nice things when solving things on SO or IRC is that your work is available for many others to benefit from. Also, since it's public, I can expect to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I'd see this as being the same as saying "Oh, you commit to open source projects, so you'd be happy to work on this private project for free!".
As a Python dev trying to learn C++ and leveraging various IRC channels, it's been near impossible to get anyone to commit to even looking at anything bigger than a single error line. It's one of those things that I understand because you can't guage who's on the other end. (Complete newbie vs. I'm not sure the best way to structure this in <insert new lang>)
I think we already know that it won't scale well. This is akin to emailing a problem to one person and them emailing you back a solution. This only helps one person at a time. We can help a lot more people if you post your question on Stack Overflow instead.
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I know that many experienced developers are willing to forgo their free time in order to answer questions for beginners, hence, stackoverflow, but I am curious how the psychological difference of committing 30 minutes to a single person in a one-on-one experience will play out. Very cool idea if it has enough liquidity.
One of the nice things when solving things on SO or IRC is that your work is available for many others to benefit from. Also, since it's public, I can expect to be corrected if I'm wrong.
I'd see this as being the same as saying "Oh, you commit to open source projects, so you'd be happy to work on this private project for free!".
As a Python dev trying to learn C++ and leveraging various IRC channels, it's been near impossible to get anyone to commit to even looking at anything bigger than a single error line. It's one of those things that I understand because you can't guage who's on the other end. (Complete newbie vs. I'm not sure the best way to structure this in <insert new lang>)
I think we already know that it won't scale well. This is akin to emailing a problem to one person and them emailing you back a solution. This only helps one person at a time. We can help a lot more people if you post your question on Stack Overflow instead.