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I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…
Maybe I'm lucky enough to have these friends, but this week I asked multiple friends and one person who I don't know that well about my current situation and they told me things like "You are really stupid you did that!" or "Get your shit together!", or "Do something already you idiot!". (Not joking or something, these were they actual, serious answers to me on the topic.) I don't know how could I get more honest opinion than these.
Also I think your best friends care enough to tell you the truth, and your responsibility should be also to tell them if you care enough! Yes, sometimes it's hard. One of my best friend says me things all the time which hurt my feelings very badly, but he always adds "I don't say this because I want to hurt you, but because I want the best for you.". He shouldn't say that because I know his intent and he is one of my best friend for more than 10 years now, even though he is brutal. :) Another example when I complained years ago to another friend about something, she told me how I dare to feel that way, I should feel lucky, I have a lot of friends and that's just stupid to worry about something like what I told her. She shocked me with her opinion but the more I think about it, the more I think she was right and I never heard an opinion like that before. We were very good friends at the time also!
I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…
this is an update on the concept of "my 2 cents", with the difference being...
...he has adjusted for inflation, with a markup.
Hey everyone - thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure how the response would be but it's been mostly positive so far. I came up with the idea because I wanted to use such a service, but when I couldn't find anything I figured I'd create it and thought it would be fun. Most importantly I want to help people out - the $10 is so I can (somewhat) justify it from a time perspective. So far it turns out I'm spending a lot…
The idea is terrible because you lack the qualifications to answer questions outside if your own personal expertise (whatever that may be). Second, assuming you get questions, you will be working at $20-10/hour. Not much money. So yeah, two thumbs down. awful idea
The only "Warrior One" I can locate is a coaching firm for lawyers, with no one named Jordan listed on their about page [3] as a member of staff.
I've asked this Warrior One on Twitter [4] if they are the actual owner of the site, and will reply here if they respond.
[1] which implies that either a DBA filing exists for that name, or no such name exists
[2] "I reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable information, as well as any other information, in connection with the sale or other disposition of all or part of Warrior One’s business, assets, or both."
[3] http://www.warriorone.com/our-story/
[4] https://twitter.com/floatingatoll/status/520745627278270465
I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…
He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…
RainSunshine, you registered at HN today and have posted only on this post and nowhere else, speaking with high confidence about how a random person on the Internet will respond to specific example questions.
What is your relation to Jordan and/or this site?
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The idea is terrible because you lack the qualifications to answer questions outside if your own personal expertise (whatever that may be). Second, assuming you get questions, you will be working at $20-10/hour. Not much money. So yeah, two thumbs down. awful idea
Dude, what a troll comment.
Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?