On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I definitely think that having a visible presence on sites like stackoverflow and github is good, and if they have your real name (or something close to it) with your real photo, it's a lot easier to show that it's really you.
If you are white, then by all means use your real name with your real photo. Nothing brings more comfort to pretty much all employers in the industry than the assurance that a candidate is a white male. If you are not white, then don't post your photo. And if you have a non-white name, consider legally changing your name. If you have a heavy European accent, and you can't string a f*cking English sentence together, then you are cute and funny; however, if you're not white and can't speak fluent English, somehow you are a subhuman. So, if you have a non-white foreign accent, take English lessons to drop the accent. None of this is going to guarantee you a job, but it will at least increase the odds and give you a chance at an interview.
Every now and then, someone writes a blog about how the interview process is broken. It isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was intended to do, to keep the non-whites out as much as possible and for as long as possible. The tactics used by white males in the software industry, and their attitude towards others, is so disturbing and disgusting that one can only give up hope on humanity. Besides, if you're white, you have a much higher chance of getting a raise and move up the ranks, regardless of your level of technical competence. I personally have encountered countless project leads, managers, directors who are complete idiots when it comes to software engineering, yet they make more and get to make decisions.
Racism runs deep, and it even has the potential to influence good fair folks who mean well but manage to say stupid shit without even realizing it. Like when Andrei said "generics in Go is like the N word ... we can't talk about it." White folks have this obsession and just can't get over the N word. They want to be able to freely express themselves, just like the good old days. And Why anyone would create a link between the N word and the lack of generics in Go is beyond me, but this is coming from a guy who demotes criticism aimed at D as nothing but rants, something not to be talked about. Or when he pokes fun at the Zimbabwean dollar to get a cheap laugh during his keynote speech at a gathering with ze Germans. There is nothing funny about an economic collapse. The source code of the debt-driven slave economy implemented in Africa and rest of the world is in the IMF and the European central banks. Africa is the richest continent, but people there are suffering because of 500+ years of colonialism and exploitation by whites. But no worries, what goes around comes around. Once the economy further contracts, pension funds are raided, and bank accounts are seized, and the dollar and other currencies further devalued, the first Great Depression will seem like a cakewalk to what is coming. It's all fun and games until it happens to you.
