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作者 Kyle Neath（GitHub 设计师）以自己作为矮个子的亲身经历，讲述现实世界中的偏见与歧视，以及互联网如何以“像素不看人”的方式抹平这些差异——在网上，人们只看你的作品和想法，而非你的外表、年龄或身份。文章用两个真实故事对比了线下与线上世界的巨大反差。
为什么经久不衰：它道出了互联网早期最动人的特质：一个只凭作品和想法评判人的精英主义空间，在身份政治与社交网络盛行的今天读来尤其令人怀念和反思。
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作者澄清写作动机：不是控诉歧视，而是赞美互联网只看作品不看人的力量
（作者澄清）很多人以为我对遭受歧视感到愤怒，其实不是。我很早就接受了这个现实，甚至热爱自己矮个子。我写这篇文章是为了展示互联网和我们这个行业的力量——用两个亲身经历的故事形成对比。并非有人蓄意因我矮而打压我。另外，如果你对谈论歧视的人说“这是你自己的问题”，你该重新审视自己的立场——歧视之所以难对付，正因为它很少是有意识或恶意的。我们每个人每天都在歧视别人，也被歧视。
kneath查看英文原文
(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 examples of actual stories that I've lived through to show a dichotomy. This is not to say there were people set out on destroying me because I was short. That's crazy. I wanted to point out an amazing thing the internet has brought on, and especially how amazing it can be for people who deal in pixels for a living. That being said, if ever you find yourself telling someone who talks of discrimination that it's their problem, you should probably re-evaluate your stance. This is why discrimination is so difficult to counteract — it's rarely a conscious or malicious process. I discriminate against people every day, and I'm discriminated against every day. To think otherwise is absurd.
亲身经历印证：互联网曾让未成年人凭实力被认真对待
我 13 岁就在 eBay 上创业。没人知道我只有 13 岁，我那家小公司被认真对待，如今年净利润超过 200 万美元。互联网曾是我人生中唯一体验过的真正精英主义。虽然如今匿名性下降，但产品本身仍会说话——我 18 岁就融到 50 万美元，不是因为我长得像创业者，而是因为我能拿出数据。只要你能展示“投入 1 美元产出 10 美元”的黑盒，融资并不难。
austenallred查看英文原文
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 people in person I would get a pat on the head and a "you'll do great some day," but the little eBay company I had started was taken very seriously. It's still around today, and it makes just over $2 million/year in net profit (not on eBay any more). While the Internet is no longer as anonymous, and I am no longer with the aforementioned company, I believe product still speaks for itself. While it's true that investors may be looking for a dropout Stanford grad student, if you create something people love you can grow a company regardless of what anyone thinks about you as a person. Hell, I raised half a million dollars as an 18-year-old kid, not because I looked or acted like the quintessential entrepreneur, but because I could show numbers. If you can show someone, "Here's a black box where you put in $1 and $10 comes out," finding money isn't hard. Even if you're 18. 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.
对比金融与科技行业：硅谷对年龄的执念格外反常
硅谷对年龄有一种奇怪的执念，在歧视和崇拜之间摇摆。我 20 岁在瑞士银行做交易员时，年龄只是玩笑话，最终仍看实力。但 21 岁面试帕洛阿尔托一家知名科技公司时，每一轮都在纠结我学校不够好、长得“娃娃脸”。没人会像 VC 吹捧 19 岁“摇滚明星”那样吹捧 22 岁的对冲基金创始人。
JumpCrisscross查看英文原文
Silicon Valley has a strange fixation on age which waffles between discrimination and fetishisation. I started working as a trader at a Swiss bank in New York when I was 20. There were lots of jokes cracked about "traders south of the drinking age" and the number mattered more to some than others, but in the end it was meritocratic. When I was 21 (after leaving the bank), I interviewed at a well-regarded Palo Alto-based tech firm and painfully remember every round of the interview bringing up that I didn't go to a prestigious enough university and that I looked "baby-faced". Granted, I look older in a suit, but it's a curiously consistent cultural artefact. You don't find anyone lauding over 22-year old hedge fund or energy venture founders as VCs do over over their 19-year old "rock stars".
怀念早期网络按想法而非身份交往的乌托邦特质
我在早期社区（Everything2、Slashdot）有完全相同的体验，长期刻意不让自己的头像出现在网上。能基于想法、理念和作品质量与人交往，是前 Facebook 时代网络的魔力所在。这也是如今社交-移动-本地创业潮如此无聊的原因：它们用个人徽章取代了真正的成就。
morisy查看英文原文
I had the totally same experience with early online communities (Everything2, Slashdot), and for a long time made a conscious effort of keeping my avatar off the Internet. It's a little utopian, yes, but being able to deal with people based on their ideas, ideals, and quality of work, and develop fast friendships without ever being aware of so much (Great line: "How could the internet know you were gay? 80 years old? Hispanic? Transgender? Karl Rove? It just didn’t matter.") is what made the pre-Facebook net magical for me and so many others, and what, in many ways, makes the rash of so many social-mobile-local startups so boring: They trade personal flare for personal expression, let users show off badges instead of actual achievement.
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