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Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by eric_bullington on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:32PM (#7933196)
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, all the upcoming office hours appears to be web framework stuff, most of which I already am pretty comfortable with or am comfortable learning on my own. The only exception to this appears to be Steve's session on open source projects (which I'm sure will be excellent based on his recent blog post on this topic [1]).

However, I would pay good money to be able to participate in office hours with an expert who's discussing lower-level stuff: C, C++, Rust, or even some assembly. I'm really interested in learning more about embedded, but would also attend any type of systems programming office hours.

I'm pretty hungry to learn more about this kind of lower-level stuff, and I sometimes get stuck on my own.

I'd also love to participate in a functional programming office hours, and would pay accordingly. Something with OCaml would be great, or Haskell, etc. These are all languages I have a superficial understanding of, and would love to delve deeper.

In short, diversify your offering beyond web stuff and I'll be there.

1. http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-garde...

Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by weitingliu on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:36PM (#7933217)
Hi Eric,

This is a great idea - we will diversify our offering as you suggested. If you have any specific recommendations on which experts you'd like us to invite - please shoot me an email. Thanks!

Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by korzun on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:34PM (#7933590)
Looked at few developers and I don't think most of them could be labeled as experts in any given language.

There should be a better filter that's not based on 'worked on nothing special for 20 years' or 'stackoverflow points'.

Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by pentium10 on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:14PM (#7933892)
what kind of developers would you reach out to if you had the chance?
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by korzun on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:17PM (#7935734)
Actual technology leaders. Not self proclaimed experts.

One thing that would be great is to have a poll of who users would like to book and perhaps reach out to them.

Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by esonderegger on Monday June 23, 2014 @05:24PM (#7934786)
Scrolling is completely broken for me on ios devices (both an ipad and an iphone 5c). Why is there so much temptation to mess with how the user scrolls?
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by weitingliu on Monday June 23, 2014 @05:56PM (#7934976)
sorry this should be fixed now.
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by weitingliu on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:46PM (#7933678)
Sorry apparently Heroku is down right now: https://status.heroku.com/
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by kuida0r3 on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:57PM (#7933771)
Looks like it's back up.
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by elwell on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:23PM (#7933949)
The youtube'd example on the homepage is not a very strong one because the mentor's accent is very hard to understand and I would say it destroys the reputability of the entire platform.

http://youtu.be/vw5_YyM4hn8?t=3m40s

Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by spython on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:59PM (#7933367)
Co-dementor seems like a great name.
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by mrtimuk on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:32AM (#7936963)
Are the "8 spaces" just for participants in the Q&A? Ie: can I just watch without signing up and 'participating'?
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by erichurkman on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:38PM (#7933238)
I see 'RSVP available soon' - is there an email list for when new RSVPs are available?
Re:Show HN: Codementor Office Hours by weitingliu on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:40PM (#7933246)
Please sign up and we will announce via our email list in upcoming weeks!