Elo comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elo 22 June 2015 03:04:08AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for this suggestions; I have a number of brilliant programming friends. Its about time I upskilled my programming ability.

I am trying to very delicately ask help at the right times to various people without asking for too much from any one person.

One of the problems I am having is that a task that might take me 5 hours could be done by someone with the skills in under 30 minutes. If I were to achieve the creation (of the app) at the cost of all else; It would be fastest to ask one of my skilled friends to do it for me. But then I don't gain any skills, and pretty soon my friends get sick of me asking favours.