alt Hacker NewsSo many of these names I feel I know them, but I don't know them, personally.
I know them, by tone. I read his/her take on the topic. Turns out you don't need to see any faces or body ratios of any kind to connect with people.
Thanks for keeping HN 'stable/sane'!
Two takes:
* never meet your heroes/heroines
* when you meet f2f with people you've known for decades online, prepared to be whelmed, under or over, depending.
People IRL are very often not what you projected. I learned this from UK mailing list interactions over 40 years ago.