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I'm a man who wasted twenty years programming with nothing to show for it. I moved on, to a working class job. You're riding false hope and trying to get blood

I'm a man who wasted twenty years programming with nothing to show for it. I moved on, to a working class job. You're riding false hope and trying to get blood from a stone. HN doesn't pay for commenters, it pays start ups. You should move on. Fifteen years is enough.

DoreenMichele 3y ago
I gave up a long time ago on ever making money via HN. I rarely post my own work here. I no longer have my resume service linked in my profile. Trying to get HN to hire me isn't the point of my remarks here. Do note that multiple other people felt some need to shoot me down here and insist my gender isn't an issue and etc. I don't talk about me to try to get anything out of it for me. I talk about me because talking about other people can get you sued for libel and not giving an example at all generally means it's too vague to make any real difference in anyone's mind. Talking about me is the least worst solution I have found even though it routinely gets me attacked and dismissed. I talk about me and my track record on HN because I am on HN and you can verify my claims by checking my comment history under this handle and my previous one. You can see that I spent years trying to make money "honestly" while dirt poor and being offered money for sex while homeless and turning it down because I am celibate for medical reasons. I talk about me because I have been here long enough some people know what I am saying is true, having read my comments for years. Maybe it will get those people to actually think and do things differently. It seemingly worked once before on a different subject. While homeless and on a tablet, I used to complain somewhat frequently "I can't access that/that doesn't work for me. I'm on a tablet." And now design is mobile first. Is that all my doing? Of course not. But I suspect programmers who never spoke to me, never admitted they knew I existed nonetheless kept my complaints in mind and it likely got us there faster. At some point I quit bitching all the time "I'm homeless. I'm on a cheap tablet. I can't do that." Things just began working and stopped being a problem.
- barrysteve 3y ago
  All good. I have nothing to add to that. Real life people who know you, would have more to say. I hope it works out.

DoreenMichele 3y ago

I gave up a long time ago on ever making money via HN. I rarely post my own work here. I no longer have my resume service linked in my profile. Trying to get HN to hire me isn't the point of my remarks here. Do note that multiple other people felt some need to shoot me down here and insist my gender isn't an issue and etc. I don't talk about me to try to get anything out of it for me. I talk about me because talking about other people can get you sued for libel and not giving an example at all generally means it's too vague to make any real difference in anyone's mind. Talking about me is the least worst solution I have found even though it routinely gets me attacked and dismissed. I talk about me and my track record on HN because I am on HN and you can verify my claims by checking my comment history under this handle and my previous one. You can see that I spent years trying to make money "honestly" while dirt poor and being offered money for sex while homeless and turning it down because I am celibate for medical reasons. I talk about me because I have been here long enough some people know what I am saying is true, having read my comments for years. Maybe it will get those people to actually think and do things differently. It seemingly worked once before on a different subject. While homeless and on a tablet, I used to complain somewhat frequently "I can't access that/that doesn't work for me. I'm on a tablet." And now design is mobile first. Is that all my doing? Of course not. But I suspect programmers who never spoke to me, never admitted they knew I existed nonetheless kept my complaints in mind and it likely got us there faster. At some point I quit bitching all the time "I'm homeless. I'm on a cheap tablet. I can't do that." Things just began working and stopped being a problem.

barrysteve 3y ago
All good. I have nothing to add to that. Real life people who know you, would have more to say. I hope it works out.