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I at least, think I'm being consistent in both comments. :) Both times I've said people never get work from the people that they help - only from coworkers. F

I at least, think I'm being consistent in both comments. :) Both times I've said people never get work from the people that they help - only from coworkers. Fifty percent of my income for many years came from engineers and coworkers I worked with while volunteering, and I’m still working with some of them ten years after leaving. My latest client, doing snazzy blockchain work, is from someone I met twenty years ago while volunteering. The same networks of people-who-know-you-can-get-stuff-done build up regular big companies too - volunteering is just another way to bootstrap this outside of such a job.

DoreenMichele 9y ago
Defending yourself in comments here is about protecting your reputation. In spite of your claim that HN has had no significant impact on your career, your reputation matters. Mine does not. Women are just supposed to enhance the lives of men for free. If you actually gave a damn about helping me, you would have emailed me try to hash this out privately. You aren't actually trying to help me. You are just continuing to virtue signal and look out for your reputation. Solving my problem is not actually on your agenda or you would be doing something effective about it, not something counterproductive that just serves to further smear me. The reason my website is unfocused is because I cannot get serious engagement from anyone ever. Engagement is how a website goes from being some half-baked piece of shit to being a means to provide a service in exchange for money. I cannot get serious and respectful engagement. I mostly get platitudes and shallow advice that isn't based on much of anything. Chin up. Keep trying. Tally ho. Maybe next time. Meanwhile, my bank account is nearly empty as usual and I am not happy about it. Platitudes do not pay my bills. Encouragement does not pay my bills. Men talking to me to enhance their reputation while pissing on mine does not pay my bills and is nothing innovative. Patio11 has done the exact same damn thing to me. He pissed all over me in public and when I blogged about it years later and someone posted that blog post here because the HN crowd loves its gossip, his only fucking concern was covering his ass and denying wrong doing. Because that's the kind of good guy Catholic boy he is. His fucking reputation matters. My suffering is irrelevant. My inability to come up with enough earned income to have basic food security no matter how hard I try and in spite of high levels of education and competence is of zero concern to him, to you and to most people here pretending they are good people and not sexist jerks. So please stop leaving me these incredibly shitty comments that just get worse with every new one.

DoreenMichele 9y ago

Defending yourself in comments here is about protecting your reputation. In spite of your claim that HN has had no significant impact on your career, your reputation matters. Mine does not. Women are just supposed to enhance the lives of men for free. If you actually gave a damn about helping me, you would have emailed me try to hash this out privately. You aren't actually trying to help me. You are just continuing to virtue signal and look out for your reputation. Solving my problem is not actually on your agenda or you would be doing something effective about it, not something counterproductive that just serves to further smear me. The reason my website is unfocused is because I cannot get serious engagement from anyone ever. Engagement is how a website goes from being some half-baked piece of shit to being a means to provide a service in exchange for money. I cannot get serious and respectful engagement. I mostly get platitudes and shallow advice that isn't based on much of anything. Chin up. Keep trying. Tally ho. Maybe next time. Meanwhile, my bank account is nearly empty as usual and I am not happy about it. Platitudes do not pay my bills. Encouragement does not pay my bills. Men talking to me to enhance their reputation while pissing on mine does not pay my bills and is nothing innovative. Patio11 has done the exact same damn thing to me. He pissed all over me in public and when I blogged about it years later and someone posted that blog post here because the HN crowd loves its gossip, his only fucking concern was covering his ass and denying wrong doing. Because that's the kind of good guy Catholic boy he is. His fucking reputation matters. My suffering is irrelevant. My inability to come up with enough earned income to have basic food security no matter how hard I try and in spite of high levels of education and competence is of zero concern to him, to you and to most people here pretending they are good people and not sexist jerks. So please stop leaving me these incredibly shitty comments that just get worse with every new one.