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In my experience, you want a slightly inconvenient barrier, or else you'll be swamped with beginner's questions only partially related to your project. For com
by fxtentacle 6y ago
In my experience, you want a slightly inconvenient barrier, or else you'll be swamped with beginner's questions only partially related to your project.
For computer vision topics, StackOverflow is recently full of people who did a "deep learning expert in 4 hours" course and now need help with things that are covered in every textbook on the topic, like "what is disparity?".
Not everyone strives to be a teacher. Some of us also just want to work on cool stuff with like-minded people.
- detaro 6y agoSure, and that's a valid choice (although if IRC is the best filter, or just a convenient one, is arguable), but that's even more an argument that having an IRC channel is not quite the same as "having office hours by chat", especially if you don't want to have office hours. Maybe I just misinterpreted your initial comment, but to me it read like "we don't need office hours, our IRC channel does the same thing". What works best entirely depends on what your goals, personal preferences and audience are.