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Re:Show HN: Ask a Dev by danielvinson on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:36PM (#16317822)
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.
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Re:Show HN: Ask a Dev by dsr_ on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:52PM (#16317947)
We used to have college freshmen learn to use IRC by seeing someone else using it and getting a five minute "here's how".

I think the missing part is "seeing someone else using it".

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Re:Show HN: Ask a Dev by jimmaswell on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:02PM (#16319072)
What kind of programmer can't figure out how to use IRC?
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Re:Show HN: Ask a Dev by herbst on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:56PM (#16317991)
If this is the target audience. Who will be there to help?
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