Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by padthai on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:16PM (#26229978)

This is fascinating to me. Is there any particular kind of profile that hired you as a ghostwriter? Do these people know how to do their work and decide to outsource it or they have no clue and just got lucky in the interviews?

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by daniellarusso on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:07PM (#26230631)

There was a story about a developer from IBM that hired somebody, and was only discovered because the inbound VPN IP was from a different country.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by branon on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:23PM (#26230830)

I would like to read this story!

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by MattGaiser on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:29PM (#26230908)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21043693

Not the same one in all likelihood though.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by 908B64B197 on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:36PM (#26230988)

That's a failure from the dev and management.

Being able to find and get repeatable good results from contractors across the globe and manage them is a skill in itself.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by shawn-furyan on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:10PM (#26233458)

I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure.

It's true that unscrupulous people are often very effective. But it's also true that they are unscrupulous. Leaning into lack of scruples probably isn't the most stable of pro business strats, but I imagine it works out sometimes.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by irjustin on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:59PM (#26233399)

Clearly needed to use a jump machine.

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Re:Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for... by yupnoop on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:20PM (#26253488)

The Onion has a good video about this phenomenon https://youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ

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