> How many times I've been discriminated against at a conference? Zero. Hi. I mean the following non-offensively. As a formerly obese person, I really doubt

> How many times I've been discriminated against at a conference? Zero. Hi. I mean the following non-offensively. As a formerly obese person, I really doubt this. People discriminate against fat people in social life, in the workplace, and yes even in a career in tech quite a bit. Educated people are good at not making it overt, or maybe they're not aware that they're doing it. But I think there have been various studies on how it affects people in the workplace (spoiler alert: it does). Also, one way I noticed this is the way people treated me before and after losing 100 lbs. It's ironic, because being treated shabbily was stressful; I would say that stress and lack of social recognition re-enforced my weight problem. I do wonder how weight might surface in a real technical conversation though. I guess it's proper to avoid certain metaphors, like "bloated" code or the "fat binary" (where fat = multi-architecture) concept they used to have on old Macs. I'm typing this on FreeBSD and I note they have "newfs_msdos" and "mount_msdosfs" instead of "FAT".