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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 13

      Austen Allred Retweeted Karen Dawn Zachary

      This may get me strung up on Twitter, but one of the main reasons folks don't move from a lower *economic* class to a higher one very easily is because they don't know the proper cues from the corresponding *social* class.https://twitter.com/KarenDZachary/status/1029183717162475520 …

      Austen Allred added,

      Karen Dawn Zachary @KarenDZachary
      Replying to @AustenAllred
      I think about this a LOT. For example, had an applicant use all caps. I don't think anyone would ever hire an applicant who used all caps. But this tiny miscue is so instantly fixable with the tiniest helpful nudge.
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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 13

      I remember when I was trying to make my way into tech a founder told me he had a job for me and to "ping" him. I had no idea what that meant, I googled forever and ended up emailing someone and asking what that meant. Now I say "ping me" all the time, not even thinking about it

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        2. Reindeer Flotilla  🌀‏ @patq911 Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          so uh, what does that mean?

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. Molten Steel‏ @_molten_steel_ Aug 13
          Replying to @patq911 @AustenAllred

          I'd also like to know this

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 13
          Replying to @_molten_steel_ @patq911

          Just means “contact me,” usually email

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I have *so many* stories like this, especially pre- and at-university. The Japan factor then insulated me from it for sufficiently long to be able to mostly successfully fake professional class on both sides of the Pacific.

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Aug 13
          Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred

          "What social class did you grow up in, Patrick?" Mom once called a McDonalds that I was in with the math team to ask the manager would he please give me a burger and we would come by and pay for it later. (This sounds like either a joke or "We were *very* poor"; was neither.)

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        2. Zach C‏ @zachcaceres Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          There is a certain degree of emotional transparency that is only OK when you are from lower classes. There is no status to jockey over if you are from lower economic classes, so you never learn to be guarded and to manage the status that you are projecting at any given moment.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Aug 13
          Replying to @zachcaceres @AustenAllred

          I don't think any of that is true. Status within your milieu is always important and useful, it just doesn't always transfer to other social contexts.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Zach C‏ @zachcaceres Aug 13
          Replying to @sonyaellenmann @AustenAllred

          There is a point where everyone around you is so low status that you just exit the status game. If there is status-seeking in that context, it is not even remotely like the kind of status-seeking that is prevalent in tech and that helps you advance in more elite contexts.

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        2.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          A sign of my bubble is that I say "ping me" all the time and never had any idea that it was opaque terminology

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. Andrew "Not a Fed" Glidden‏ @asglidden Aug 13
          Replying to @sonyaellenmann @AustenAllred

          Question: what was the origin? I remember using it in elementary school in the context of Magic: The Gathering (pinging is tapping a creature for 1 damage), so I quickly learned the ValleySpeak (a quick grab of someone's attention).

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo Aug 13
          Replying to @asglidden @sonyaellenmann @AustenAllred

          also used with regard to mid-20thC sonar... but origins seem to go much further back, to middle/old english for prod/prick: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ping#Etymology …

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        5. Dan Magnuszewski‏ @magnachef Aug 13
          Replying to @gojomo @asglidden and

          It’s a networking term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility) …

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Andrew "Not a Fed" Glidden‏ @asglidden Aug 13
          Replying to @magnachef @gojomo and

          But it clearly predates consumer computing, given my age and awareness of it as a child.

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        7. Francois Justice‏ @FrancoisJustice Aug 14
          Replying to @asglidden @magnachef and

          I learned about it in middle school computer class in mid-00s - we were learning about networking and how we could send a “ping” to an IP. Stuck w me ever since but I’m not sure I would’ve known had it not been for that one elective class.

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        1. Yousif Astarabadi  🦄‏ @YousifAstar Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Yep. “A framework for understanding poverty” by Ruby Payne talks a lot about this

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        1. Zach C‏ @zachcaceres Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I had to learn this the hard way, too. There is a constellation of habits/traits (dress, jargon, beliefs, ways of speaking) that you will not get via osmosis if you are from below the upper-middle class. Elites can smell it a mile away.

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        2. Dennis Wingo‏ @wingod Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          When I first moved to California and worked in the microcomputer industry in the 80's I was given a hard time about my very strong southern accent. There was still lingering disdain for "okie" accents as from stupid people. It happens. Adapt and overcome.

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        3. Jess‏ @jessalynn83 Aug 14
          Replying to @wingod @AustenAllred

          This has not changed. I moved to the Northeast from Texas and I have to be very careful in my professional life to try to minimize the Texas accent because I get teased mercilessly when it slips out and people go from listening to me to making fun of me in an instant.

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        4. Dennis Wingo‏ @wingod Aug 14
          Replying to @jessalynn83 @AustenAllred

          Yep...

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        1. Trevor Bodily‏ @Tbodily1 Aug 14
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.

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