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hey, wondering if anyone in this channel has thoughts on this poll: - https://twitter.com/RadicalZephyr/status/917650575327682560 - https://twitter.com/RadicalZephyr/status/917651191399616512
Actually, I'd rate that as pretty valuable. Pair programming (and, more generally, tutelage from a live human) is in theory one of the most efficient ways to transfer knowledge, since you have an intelligence you can ask questions of. I think that'd be especially true if you're stuck on something, since you're not just starting from scratch (in which case a free tutorial might be pretty efficient). I might like a "try before you buy" deal so that I can verify the quality of the expert (including expertise as well as communication/teaching skills), but then again, reviews and whatnot might address the same uncertainty. Personally, maybe up to $100–$150/hour for a really good expert, in which case I'd generally expect to spend a half hour or less getting unstuck and properly oriented.
the problem/question posed to an expert has to be very clean though. You have to know exactly what you don’t know 🙂 Otherwise this turns into consulting services
Depends on how good the expert programmer is at teaching you what it is they're doing and thinking during the pairing process. It could be pretty valuable though.
I paid for a pairing session to help wrestle with some ruby metaprogramming foo that was bedeviling me some number of years ago. Maybe $125/hour for 2 hours? Worth every penny. But as dm3 suggested, I had a very specific problem at hand and specific design scenarios I wanted to explore quickly.