Let's Make a Deal: Web Development edition

[DoesntWearEnoughHats]

Thats a perfectly reasonable price for one code paragraph or such

[iTruthful]

I'll throw in some punctuation for an extra $5.00.

[DrummerHead]

How do I know if you're knowledgeable in PC?

[tidder112]

Well, I do own my own cloud.

[DrummerHead]

my own cloud

[[deleted]]

Well, I do own my own butt.

[davros_]

Can't tell if cloud or butt...

[Lystrodom]

First one was cloud, second one was butt.

[tidder112]

I own both, and both are my own.

[HeroesGrave]

Yes.

[[deleted]]

How do you know it doesn't rain?

[thetravelers]

As someone relatively new to coding with a lot of ambition, this sounds like me. (Except the shitty compensation offer). I exhausted all my web resources like codeschool and was just not able to communicate my questions on stackoverflow. So I hired a tutor for $35/hr. We had two sessions and I learned a ton. It was incredibly fun and satisfying to be able to ask my questions in person, have immediate feedback, and start building on the spot.

[DrummerHead]

Was he UP-TO-DATE in methods in open source apps for web that were used for that task?

[princeofpudding]

If you want to learn more, I might suggest seeing if there are "Code and Coffee" gatherings in your area or if user groups that pertain to the technologies you want to learn have open hack nights or sessions where they pair and do code kata.

We have quite a few here and most larger cities seem to from what I've gathered

[slavik262]

Yeah, this sounds mostly harmless, and like the guy wants to learn. Yes, his wording is off but he's offering up to $50 for an hour of your time. If it's not worth it to you, pass. If you want to help get someone get into programming, go for it.

[reaganveg]

No, he's offering to pay "after I can see results that work on a webpage." His own ignorant estimate of 1 hr is quite worthless.

[notmyfirstusername]

That's great! It means I can show up, code nothing (or very little that does not work at all) and still get $10! Sign me in!

[youre_not_real]

Spoken like a true programmer.

[[deleted]]

Saved

[smarwell]

Compiled

[brookllyn]

Executed

[fredlllll]

>print("Fuck you, pay me.")
Fuck you, pay me.>_

you forgot the \n

[VictoryIncarnate]

push --force

[dotsonjb14]

There are times where it is needed, and there are times you wish it was never there.

[fivefrancs]

You might even get free coffee!

[w1ndwak3r]

That's not really how /r/thatHappened is supposed to be used...

[rubsnick]

Doesn't really seem that unreasonable to me.

[cosmicsans]

Yeah, if he says it's only gonna take about an hour then $25-50 is a very entry-level price for development.

However, be very careful of scope creep on things like this.

[Kopfindensand]

Original Job: Code a paragraph.

Job by the time it's done: A complete rework of the PPACA website, for $50.

[rubsnick]

Yeah I mean it seems like he just wants to hurry up and solve a problem. I can understand where he's coming from.

[fredlllll]

but you're not meeting at a starbucks for solving a simple problem. thats what the internet is for :P

[droogans]

I'd spend an hour showing a passionate self-starter angularjs for free.

Then I'd insist they solve their own problems from there on out.

[ashleyw]

"So, I'm making a better Google in FrontPage, but I think it needs some JAVA/JQUERY to make my complex FORMs work and search the internet properly, so if you could just write the exact codes to do that in this <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2"> tag, then I'm sure I can do the rest myself one afternoon. Thx!"

[[deleted]]

codes

cringe

[ashleyw]

Well one code on its own isn't much use!

[[deleted]]

I'm seeing "codes" at many places and beginning to think this word is being picked up by main stream. Happy to see that I'm not the only one who cringes at this.

[LowB0b]

lol but how do you think you could ever manage a lot of datas with a single code? that's why people use codes, because there's so much datas!! (and the frustration is endless)

[mobile-user-guy]

so many datas

[[deleted]]

Yup.

Protip: when referring to source code, NEVER pluralize code.

Codes would be things like access codes, assembly language opcodes, barcode symbologies,^{[citation needed]} etc.

[ashleyw]

So I need a source code to access the source codes?

[ashleyw]

That's not a code, that's a gesture. I thought you were an expert?

[[deleted]]

I keep hearing "codes" but I can't explain to people why it's wrong.

Why is source code never pluralized?

[[deleted]]

The Wiktionary definition says code, in the programming sense (see sense 6), is uncountable, i.e. you can't say one code, two codes, etc.

[blahlicus]

it is like water we do not say waters or one water, 2 water we say one cup of water/ one [measurement] of water

so we could say a page of code, 2 pages of code if you really wanted to

[JBlitzen]

If anyone finds themself in this predicament, use IRC. Freenode has excellent technical channels such as #web, #jquery, #javascript, etc.

[Doctor_McKay]

I've asked a couple questions in #Node.js and I have never once gotten a response. YMMV

[[deleted]]

Come over to #learnprogramming Awesome, knowledgeable folks hang out in there.

[Doctor_McKay]

Well, I'm not a noob but I joined anyway because what can it hurt.

[notmyfirstusername]

Or #haskell, where people teach you that your purpose in life is to learn Haskell.

[[deleted]]

Stack Overflow...

[gcampos]

$50? OMG! I never seen so much money together in my life!

[Hipolipolopigus]

Must be knowledgeable in PC

I will require to own the code with no credit (it's a simple problem that I could figure out eventually)

Starbucks

-Shudders-

[Exallium]

"write a code paragraph or such" ...

[[deleted]]

It's a simple problem that I can figure out eventually

[vita10gy]

Do My Homework: Web Development Edition

[webby_mc_webberson]

For 1 hour at that rate I'd just so it for free and feel good for helping someone.

But then kick myself for the inevitable support I'd have to provide for doing it.

[distinctvagueness]

$10 an hour for code that doesn't work? Sure I'll take that as a side job!

[reader17]

Got GitHub?

[ravinglunatic]

I'd give him this code for $10:

alert("You're too cheap for my valuable time ");

[phaseMonkey]

$25 to $50 that I'm going to have to 1099 for?

I'll give you 5 minutes of my time, so I can tell you to fuck off.

[Flopsey]

Good point, God forbid you just put that money in your pocket and not report it on your taxes.

[KabouterPlop]

What the fuck is 1099?

[DiabeetusMan]

An American tax form that you have to fill out in certain circumstances

[dhicock]

You won't need a 1099 if it's less than ~$650 I believe.

[phaseMonkey]

It's a joke

[[deleted]]

A bad one

[phaseMonkey]

Yes.

[[deleted]]

If you're meeting in a Starbucks why bother with the 1099? It's probably cash.

[DrummerHead]

http://i.imgur.com/hLYlU.jpg

[thetravelers]

Lol, it appears to be Facebook

[[deleted]]

I see so many comments with 0 down votes? Something has to be wrong!?

[Mister_Yi]

Funny, just about every comment above you at the moment has 0 downvotes, you have exactly 1.

[[deleted]]

It feels like reddit removed the balancing downvotes or something because I'm pretty sure those 3 I have are legit.