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Re: Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

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Post by njs12345 »

btilly wrote: post #29

Sorry to be negative, but I've personally found that people who offer me prizes, money, etc to help others result in my choosing not to. I have people who are willing to pay me real money to help. But places where I get involved in discussions, I'm willing to offer valuable advice on. Since this draws a distinction between people who get and receive help, and discourages public discussion, I can't see myself getting…

It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?

Re: Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

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Post by rangibaby »

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #28

If you want to be proper, you're forgetting to add the 'u' to the end of ohayou and arigatou :P

Actually, if you wanted to be proper you would use a circumflex or macron over the long vowel, depending on which version of ISO 3602[1] you are following.

Of course, that looks pretentious, especially when typed. ;-)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_R%C5%8Dmaji

Re: Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

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Post by saiko-chriskun »

rangibaby wrote: post #32
saiko-chriskun wrote: post #28

If you want to be proper, you're forgetting to add the 'u' to the end of ohayou and arigatou :P

Actually, if you wanted to be proper you would use a circumflex or macron over the long vowel, depending on which version of ISO 3602[1] you are following. Of course, that looks pretentious, especially when typed. ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_R%C5%8Dmaji

Ah I thought it was more proper to add the u than to do the line over the o. It's at least much more prevalent :P.

Re: Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

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Post by btilly »

njs12345 wrote: post #31
btilly wrote: post #29

Sorry to be negative, but I've personally found that people who offer me prizes, money, etc to help others result in my choosing not to. I have people who are willing to pay me real money to help. But places where I get involved in discussions, I'm willing to offer valuable advice on. Since this draws a distinction between people who get and receive help, and discourages public discussion, I can't see myself getting…

It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?

A bit over a decade ago, that is exactly how I thought when I signed up for experts exchange to answer Perl questions. At about the same time I signed up for Perlmonks.

A couple of years later I never went to experts exchange, even though they were willing to pay money. Meanwhile I was so active on Perlmonks that I had the highest earned points of anyone on the site.

It turns out that I enjoy teaching exactly because I'm motivated by the interaction. Make the interaction wrong, and I'm never going to show up. OK, I will if you pay enough, but any true expert will have no shortage of people willing to pay more for their time than any junior person can ever hope to afford.

Now granted, I'm an outlier. But this is a critically important problem that needs to be solved in any kind of problem/answer site.

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