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Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by herbst » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

danielvinson wrote: post #24

cpt1138 wrote: post #9

I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…

The target of this service is very much NOT people who would know how to use IRC and know where to go on IRC to ask a question, nor is the type of question which this service is aiming to answer easy to ask over text.

If this is the target audience. Who will be there to help?

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by tshedor » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

cpt1138 wrote: post #9

I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…

Valid points, absolutely.

IRC and Freenode are great...if you're already in tech. About every third freelance client I speak with needs help with simple stuff - understanding how to get a host. Understanding how to point DNS to a service like Squarespace. They don't have that one tech friend to help them or know where to ask for help, despite the constant and saturated availability of chat rooms/forums.

So while we'll provide dev-to-dev mentoring, I really hope we reach this audience too.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by tshedor » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

snow_mac wrote: post #8

I'll run one of these in Downtown Denver Colorado!

Thanks very much, we'll take you up on it. Please reach out to askadevorg at gmail.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by tshedor » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

badrequest wrote: post #6

Would absolutely love to do this in Austin. :)

Austin is prime time. Please drop a line to askadevorg at gmail.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by tomasien » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

I never would have become a functional program if someone had sat down with me regularly for 3 months to think through these types of problems. Learning how they thought about them and debugged them made becoming self-taught so much easier. This is great!

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by daurnimator » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

I'd love to do something like this in Melbourne, Australia.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by fiatjaf » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

If you want to help someone, just hang out on IRC and look for people asking questions.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by tshedor » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

daurnimator wrote: post #36

I'd love to do something like this in Melbourne, Australia.

We'd love to have you. Please hit me up at askadevorg at gmail.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by komali2 » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

akurilin wrote: post #17

cpt1138 wrote: post #9

I think IRC does half or more of this. Usually there are channels for specific things with a lot of varied experience and expertise. For instance in the #xml channel on Freenode, some very heavy hitters in the XML world frequent the channel. It also allows you to contribute back for the more basic questions that might get asked. I like the personal contact in the abstract but it suffers from huge latency (have to wai…

It's hard to overstate the value I've gotten out of Freenode IRC over the years. The #postgresql channel is chock-full of contributors and PG gurus willing to generously spend time explaining concepts and best practices. A real gem. Same thing with #clojure and #haskell . ##networking is great as well. Pretty amazing to drop into the same channel for 6-7 years in a row and see the same faces every time. One of the fi…

I still am not sure the best way to "IRC," I remember back in the day having it running in a program on Windows but lordy knows what the "preferred" method is now.

I've noticed that StackOverflow now has a chat feature which is very IRC-ish and relatively helpful, if a bit empty at times.

Re: Show HN: Ask a Dev

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Post by arca_vorago » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #39

akurilin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to overstate the value I've gotten out of Freenode IRC over the years. The #postgresql channel is chock-full of contributors and PG gurus willing to generously spend time explaining concepts and best practices. A real gem. Same thing with #clojure and #haskell . ##networking is great as well. Pretty amazing to drop into the same channel for 6-7 years in a row and see the same faces every time. One of the fi…

I still am not sure the best way to "IRC," I remember back in the day having it running in a program on Windows but lordy knows what the "preferred" method is now. I've noticed that StackOverflow now has a chat feature which is very IRC-ish and relatively helpful, if a bit empty at times.

I prefer command-line irc from a vps, I use erc because I'm an emacs fella, but I've enjoyed irssi as well. Don't forget to cloak whenever possible!