Re:I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to ...
by ksaj on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:03PM
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It might be the whole "offline for 3 months with a stranger" situation. How safe is that for anyone, free or not? Loving to teach is an imbalanced motive for the expense and solitary dedication. That's not a student. That's a disciple. The need to continually "add sugar until someone bites" just adds to the creep factor.
Your motives may be entirely pure, but this is a case where absolutely everybody in their right mind should look a gift horse in the mouth.
Re:I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to ...
by wwoessi on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:11PM
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If nobody joins me with this offer, I'll just keep adding more sugar until someone bites... I want to teach people typescript, but I'm just done with the half motivated people, that's why I want to go completely offline !! (Also I love the mountains of course)
Re:I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to ...
by pcthrowaway on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:35PM
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I'm confused, what's the catch? Is it satire? I know a lot of people who would take you up on this in a heartbeat.. I would if I wasn't already gainfully employed to program Typescript.. I love both mountains and Typescript. Haven't been to Nepal, but Dharamsala is close and absolutely gorgeous
Re:I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to ...
by robocat on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:30AM
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> just done with the half motivated people
Other motivations are likely to attract people attracted to those other motivations. You obviously think there is a high correlation between free-flight-to-Nepal, and desire-to-learn-TypeScript. Seems unlikely.
Nepal is poor: why not find some local students? Instead of wasting money giving free flights to rich 1st world people, why not supply a few computers and training to poor 3rd world people.
Make your entry requirements highly correlated with geeky keenness for programming?
Re:I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to ...
by moistly on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:24AM
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OP has an account since 2017, with their only submissions (2) being made in the past 12 hours (both on this topic), and their sole comment is in this thread. Too fucking weird.
Your motives may be entirely pure, but this is a case where absolutely everybody in their right mind should look a gift horse in the mouth.
Other motivations are likely to attract people attracted to those other motivations. You obviously think there is a high correlation between free-flight-to-Nepal, and desire-to-learn-TypeScript. Seems unlikely.
Nepal is poor: why not find some local students? Instead of wasting money giving free flights to rich 1st world people, why not supply a few computers and training to poor 3rd world people.
Make your entry requirements highly correlated with geeky keenness for programming?