The bulk of these have been mostly positive followup questions to comments I've posted here. I admit that in a few cases I've dropped the ball and not gotten back to people. I do apologize for that.
I've also received two or three negative e-mails from people who didn't like my comments/posts, which is a little odd, as I don't tend to be too controversial on here. One of these was I think prompted by a misunderstanding of the message I was trying to convey. I would have responded but the person in question was using an e-mail anonymizer which didn't support return messages.
The most impactful relationship I've formed via HN was when I contacted Sebastian Macke to discuss my networking setup for jor1k. We don't speak to one another often, but since I still happily maintain the server which supplies network access to the jor1k demo we do contact one another every now and then.
A couple of times a week, though alot of my posts are explaining how the financial markets work and include a blurb to reach out to me with any questions.
I dedicate atleast one lunch a week to going out for coffee with someone who wants some mentoring, had mixed results with this. About half the people I have coffee with come from HN.
About once a month a blogger/reporter will read something I wrote and ask to do an interview about said topic.
People want to talk and learn, but its up to you to reach out and get things started.
I had few job offers from HN actually,even though I am not even that active on it, unfortunately I have never took one since none of them was remote and I am still pursuing my masters in AI and Robotics in a far country.
My first instinct was that it was some kind of scam, but apparently these people did some hard research into my publicly available information (LinkedIn, etc). They didn't mention their name which almost set off a red flag for me.
The bulk of these have been mostly positive followup questions to comments I've posted here. I admit that in a few cases I've dropped the ball and not gotten back to people. I do apologize for that.
I've also received two or three negative e-mails from people who didn't like my comments/posts, which is a little odd, as I don't tend to be too controversial on here. One of these was I think prompted by a misunderstanding of the message I was trying to convey. I would have responded but the person in question was using an e-mail anonymizer which didn't support return messages.
The most impactful relationship I've formed via HN was when I contacted Sebastian Macke to discuss my networking setup for jor1k. We don't speak to one another often, but since I still happily maintain the server which supplies network access to the jor1k demo we do contact one another every now and then.