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Comment by Johanx64

10 days ago

As per modus operandi of the midwit, you didn't demonstrate anything. You just disagreed.

I implore you to bring evidence where demonstrated competency of John Carmack or Michael Abrash is called into question. Demostrate how that is a phenomenon or a trend. And if you can't, I rest my case.

It is obvious to any reasonable person that in the statement "nobody" doesn't literally mean not a single entity within 8 billion population of the planet.

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sunshowers  10 days ago

You said "demonstrated competence" in general, not Carmack or Abrash.

My own competence has repeatedly been questioned, even though I've consistently delivered results on the teams I've been on. My body of work is almost all public so feel free to verify yourself. It turns out that how much you're questioned has a lot to do with race and gender — basically every single highly skilled minority I know has been in this position.

  • Johanx64  9 days ago

    > You said "demonstrated competence" in general, not Carmack or Abrash.

    I did specifically mention Carmack and Abrash to give a concrete example of what demonstrated competence is. And to avoid having to argue some vague, watered down, abstract pedestrian notion of what "demonstrated competence" is.

    >My own competence has repeatedly been questioned, even though I've consistently delivered results on the teams I've been on. My body of work is almost all public so feel free to verify yourself. It turns out that how much you're questioned has a lot to do with race and gender — basically every single highly skilled minority I know has been in this position.

    It looks like my intuiton has been on point here. You see yourself as a highly skilled, competent expert.

    Except others are apparently not always sharing in your self aggrandizing perception of self.

    Since you can't come to terms with this, hijinx insues wherein you assume that everyone else is just stupid, irrational instead. Or you surmise that they reject your "competency and expertise" based on irrelevant immutable characteristics.

    Timeless classic.