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Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by jessriedel »

bm98 wrote: post #84
graeme wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an anecdote: I'm 5'6", and I don't think this has been a barrier to anything. I've had to be more careful about my appearance, of course. My clothes fit well, I'm lean, and I work out. Despite my diminutive stature, men get out of my way, because I look strong and I walk confidently. Men didn't do this until I got strong. I get looks from girls all the time. They don't seem to care that I'm in about the 2nd percen…

Agreed, but I think you're selling yourself short on your percentile: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l021.p...

That's says he's 10th percentile in the US, right? Although that's true, I'm guessing if you corrected for the ethnic and social groups he's judged against that you'd find 2% is pretty accurate.

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by mpweiher »

FireBeyond wrote: post #13

What a strange claim. "Looking back", he can't help but feel discriminated against due to his height. It couldn't possibly be because of his "no formal eduction, no experience with any big clients", could it?

http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/height_discrimi...

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by graeme »

bm98 wrote: post #84
graeme wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an anecdote: I'm 5'6", and I don't think this has been a barrier to anything. I've had to be more careful about my appearance, of course. My clothes fit well, I'm lean, and I work out. Despite my diminutive stature, men get out of my way, because I look strong and I walk confidently. Men didn't do this until I got strong. I get looks from girls all the time. They don't seem to care that I'm in about the 2nd percen…

Agreed, but I think you're selling yourself short on your percentile: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l021.p...

Interesting, thanks. Hadn't looked up those stats in years and lowballed it as a result.

My weight percentile is around 40%. I feel good about that compared to my height percentile, since it's muscle and not fat.

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by sitong »

kneath wrote: post #74

(Author here) Just wanted to clarify, since it seems a lot of people seem to think I'm frustrated with being discriminated against. I'm not. It's a fact of life. I got over it pretty early in life. I love being short, it's fucking awesome. If ever you meet me, you'd probably agree I don't have an issue with it. I wrote this article to illustrate the power of the internet and this industry we work in. I used two examp…

Great post. I love that this industry is more a meritocracy than many others. One note: your ENTP link is https://entp.com/ when it should be http://entp.com/

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by eru »

robotresearcher wrote: post #55

"For the first time in human history, it’s possible to be represented (almost) solely through the merits of your work." I enjoyed the piece, but this is overstated. Represented by an agent that protects anonymity, or just working by correspondence only, writers have enjoyed this ability for a long time. George Eliot and J.K. Rowling obscured their gender and let the work speak for itself.

Nitpick: `J.K. Rowling' might be obscuring gender, but `George Eliot' isn't just obfuscation.

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by eru »

HCIdivision17 wrote: post #62
kerryfalk wrote: post #30

? I, too, am short. I'm 5'6". I have always worked on teams with people much older than me (seems like a 15-20 year average). When I was in my early 20s and in sales selling high dollar value equipment I recognized that my age wasn't going to help. It took a few moments to dispel that once I began talking with someone as I just needed to overcome the view that I was inexperienced (As that would be associated with my…

I suspect he wasn't skilled in overcoming his appearance and projecting himself yet. I had a similar experience to yours, perhaps, but in engineering. Most of my coworkers were at least 25 years older (and one good friend calls me grandson). It took a while to learn to project "I know what I'm talking about and can prove it" without coming off as pretentious. And I've had people note the change. Perhaps like your exp…

> In a management group, it's easy to lose face fast if someone doesn't follow a nuanced argument (which is admittedly a rookie mistake in such a setting)

Do you mean, making a nuanced argument is a rookie mistake, or not following one?

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by anonymous »

sneak wrote: post #90
kneath wrote: post #74

(Author here) Just wanted to clarify, since it seems a lot of people seem to think I'm frustrated with being discriminated against. I'm not. It's a fact of life. I got over it pretty early in life. I love being short, it's fucking awesome. If ever you meet me, you'd probably agree I don't have an issue with it. I wrote this article to illustrate the power of the internet and this industry we work in. I used two examp…

I secretly cringed after that time we were in Berlin and I told that terrible "Have you guys... SEEN KYLE??! (He's about this tall.)" joke. (For those that don't know it, you extend your right arm out, palm down, horizontally, while saying the last part loudly.) It wasn't until after I'd said it that a) I realized that it was totally and absolutely illegal to tell there and b) that I was calling attention to the heig…

That's a common misconception. Making fun of nazism is allowed. Spreading propaganda that nazism is the best thing since sliced bread is not.

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by geon »

dhaivatpandya wrote: post #65
geon wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you are a prodigy, you simply haven't had the time yet to become really good at anything. Supposedly it takes 10.000 hours or so of exercise, which would be 9 years at 3 hours daily. I'm not trying to push you down, and anyone not paying you what your work is worth is definitely taking advantage of you.

Very true. But, I don't think that applies to everything. I don't think it takes 10,000 hours of practice to design a decent Wordpress theme. In fact, I would say that most college graduates (even from top universities) would still be quite far away from 10,000 hours in a specific domain of CS/SE, yet, companies do hire them.

> But, I don't think that applies to everything. I don't think it takes 10,000 hours of practice to design a decent Wordpress theme.

Well it does, but you obviously benefit from all relevant experiences. Any kind of design, even print or illustration, is relevant. Obviously all programming, not only PHP/Javascript is relevant.

Re: Pixels don’t care

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Post by vidarh »

chimeracoder wrote: post #80
austenallred wrote: post #66

I started out as a 13-year-old entrepreneur selling stuff on eBay (which was pretty new at the time). There was a loophole when they first opened where you could sign up under someone else's name and switch all of the records over to your name; that way you didn't have to be 18 to register. I first grew to love the Internet as the only real meritocracy I experienced in life. No one knew I was 13. When I talked to peo…

> While the Internet is no longer as anonymous > You don't know who I am from this comment (unless you stalk my bio and find me on Twitter). If you like it you'll upvote it. That's exactly (one of the many reasons) why I love the Internet. That's the one sad thing, though: as you yourself point out, the Internet is moving in a direction where this concept of an anonymous meritocracy is already becoming more and more…

It might become more difficult, but mostly because most of us don't care enough about being hard to track down.

Piecing together most of my "online identity" for example is easy, because I don't care. My id here is my first name and last initial. My name is all over my blog which I've acknowledged ownership of in many contexts, even where I use user names that does not match my name in any way, for example. But there are the odd pieces you likely won't find, because I don't want you to find them.

People just need to, and will, learn to curate their identity more.

Incidentally, things like Google's attempt at a real name policy for G+ in some ways makes anonymity easier: It makes people trust names that have not been verified - just eyeballed for "looks like a real human name". Everyone knows that "chimeracoder" is not likely to be your real name. But if you posted as pjohnson (just to pick something at random), people would be likely to assume it is your actual name and be none the wiser.

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