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I read it as a joke just playing to the audience (ongoing good-natured rivalry, etc). It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can
by seiji 15y ago
I read it as a joke just playing to the audience (ongoing good-natured rivalry, etc).
It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can tell a complicated story about how they like cats and populist rage politics, but it's a hard negative signal to get past.
- yaz 15y ago> It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can tell a complicated story about how they like cats and populist rage politics, but it's a hard negative signal to get past. I see the parallel but your signalling system is rather poor if it penalizes someone for liking reddit.
- jblow 15y agoI agree that it is sort of good-natured rivalry, but it sort of isn't. I went to Berkeley and know that it is true.
- throwaway1979 15y agoYou're probably right ... it was likely a good-natured joke. However, I see the elite school bias happen a lot in tech. When you're a young person trying to get that first job, etc., it really stabs you in the heart. The idea of signaling is reasonable but taking it to the extreme is just plain stupid. Peter jokes about the poor family with a big mortgage ... that isn't a sob story ... a lot of people have that or worse. My folks immigrated to the west with very little. I went to the best school (not Stanford) I could afford and tried to make the best of it. And I know for sure that I'm not the only one like that. All I ask is that we don't take these things as innocent jokes. It is just another form of discrimination ... we should point that out every time we see it.