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Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by cabalamat »

breck wrote: post #3

If anyone... - Wants an invite - Has ideas about better use cases than programming tutors ...please let me know! (here or on breck7@gmail.com)

One thing that something like this may be useful for is in help at solving a particular problem (e.g. sending POST requests in Python and interpreting the responses).

Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by cellis »

I wonder if hours are the best metric? All of the advisors i've had outside of school have rarely spent a whole hour with me, but still managed to help me a lot. Unless you are a complete beginner to programming, I suspect that a lot of the problems you have are of the "how do I do x in language y" sort. So maybe it could be priced by question, or by problem?

Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by tentonova2 »

I'd happily solve/tutor a one-off problem for 2 hours at a lower fixed price ($100-200), but as much as I like the idea of one-off tutor sessions, I can't get behind a minimum wage rate.

At my usual $150 hour rate, it would take 17 hours on WageMachine to match one hour of work. I could just as easily spend those 17 hours finding that one hour of work (and it wouldn't be just one hour).

[Edit] Thinking about it more, I think your idea is very good, but lacks any real traction without being able to genuinely pay real experts -- I don't mean "highly talented, industrious, college educated, English speaking, and lives in the United States", but rather, someone who has at least a decade of work experience, is near the forefront of their field, and would like to invest some time in assisting, teaching, solving other people's once-off issues.

One of the primary reasons I don't participate in StackOverflow is that the vast majority of questions are simply boring. For $150, nobody is going to ask a boring question (and if they do, at least they're paying market rate for the answer).

Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by Estragon » 

  Every worker on WageMachine is highly talented, industrious, college educated, 
  English speaking, and lives in the United States.
  http://wagemachine.com/blog/learn_more_about_wagemachine
Then why the hell are they working for minimum wage at a deadend job on your site?

Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by wizard_2 »

breck wrote: post #3

If anyone... - Wants an invite - Has ideas about better use cases than programming tutors ...please let me know! (here or on breck7@gmail.com)

I fully support ideas like this. I see it as lowering the barrier to market. This could solve the problem of finding small work. I have out of work friends who are capable at tutoring but are currently unemployed.

I do wonder what you'll do about quality control. You say you have bright people who are happy to work for very little money, but I'll need to see why I can trust them. A reputation so to speak.

This almost seems like it's begging to be a paid stackoverflow, but I'm not sure what that would look like from a community standpoint (not the same as the free one). I'm getting the feeling it will be more like a craigslist then a structured sytem.

Re: Hire Programming Tutors now on WageMachine

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Post by sam »

tentonova2 wrote: post #6

I'd happily solve/tutor a one-off problem for 2 hours at a lower fixed price ($100-200), but as much as I like the idea of one-off tutor sessions, I can't get behind a minimum wage rate. At my usual $150 hour rate, it would take 17 hours on WageMachine to match one hour of work . I could just as easily spend those 17 hours finding that one hour of work (and it wouldn't be just one hour). [Edit] Thinking about it more…

Maybe you could handle 17 WageMachine threads simultaneously.
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