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Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by focusaurus »

astrodust wrote: post #16
mioffe wrote: post #10

Ohh sweet! Super psyched to see us on the front page of HN. We are looking for as many folks who love pair programming as possible. So if pair programming is your thing, please consider applying to be an expert here: www.airpair.com/be-an-expert Let me know if you have any questions about AirPair. Cheers, Maksim AirPair co-founder

What does it cost and what does it pay? It's not all that clear on the site. Also looks like you need a favicon.

It's set up as a marketplace where experts can have ballpark hourly rates and clients can also offer a specific rate for a given request. Then a mutually agreed upon amount (could be zero on up through top-dollar market rates) can be negotiated. As an expert you can decide "I always want $X/hour" if you like or you can do it case-by-case. Same thing as a client, you can specify in the request an amount you are offering and let experts take it or leave it.

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by peteforde »

This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman.

Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by mioffe »

peteforde wrote: post #22

This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman. Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.

Hi, thanks for the comment. We couldn't agree more. There's a systemic problem with STEM education that affects the entire industry.

We welcome female experts and will be doing outreach in this area. On the bright side, we've had quite a few female customers already and are happy to be contributing to righting wrongs.

-Maksim

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by rrouse »

peteforde wrote: post #22

This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman. Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.

Are you also disappointed that there aren't any transgendered experts listed?

Diversity is great, yes, but can we please stop suggesting that there is sexism happening here?

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by mamcx »

jkresner wrote: post #18
mamcx wrote: post #15

This is too for spanish people? Or only english?

We have quite a few spanish speaking experts like Felipe Lima https://github.com/felipecsl We're also in discussions with a partner in Brazil to get some Portuguese experts. Jonathon, AirPair Cofounder

Is possible to pick based in language? So, If I join, could help only in spanish?

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by jkresner »

mamcx wrote: post #27
jkresner wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have quite a few spanish speaking experts like Felipe Lima https://github.com/felipecsl We're also in discussions with a partner in Brazil to get some Portuguese experts. Jonathon, AirPair Cofounder

Is possible to pick based in language? So, If I join, could help only in spanish?

We will support listing languages you speak on profiles soon.

Jonathon, AirPair Cofounder

Re: Airpair's fast growing pair programming community

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Post by jkresner »

huragok wrote: post #25
jkresner wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We just scaled from 1-10 dynos. Hopefully fully up now cheers. Jonathon AirPair Cofounder

OAuth callback from GitHub fails :(

Please contact us at team at airpair so we can diagnose - it is working for others people.
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