Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:19:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Actually, given the blatant misogyny frequently on display on this forum, ???
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, May 13, 2016 19:53:18 bitwise via Digitalmars-d wrote: May be worth mentioning archiving sites like gmane that seem to love making your stupid questions/statements your #1 google search result. Excellent way to make an impression on future employers... ;) Actually, the fact that I had fairly high reputation on stackoverflow helped me get my current job, and I've had other companies looked favoribly on the fact that I have activity on github. I'm even amazingly searchable given how common all of my names are thanks primarily to this newsgroup. You'll probably find me fairly quickly if you search for Jonathan M Davis programming and this in spite of the fact that Jonathan and Davis are both _very_ common (and my middle name, Michael, is just as bad). 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. Sure, some folks may want to stay more anonymous, and that's there prerogative, but in my experience, having a visible presence online with regards to programming is definitely an aid in getting employment. Potential employers can actually see that you know something and that other programmers think that you know something, whereas they can't if you do everything online under a pseudonym and/or never contribute to projects online or make any of your own code available online. As to Walter's original point of recognizing folks, it's definitely nicer when contributors use the same names in the newsgroup and on github (be they their real names or not). Otherwise, it _can_ be a pain to figure out that they're the same person. For frequent contributors, you tend to figure it out and remember it, but even then, it's more work than when the names match - and if the contributor is not a frequent contributor, then it's unlikely that any connection is going to be made, and it's going to seem like they came out of nowhere when they might actually be someone who posts in the newsgroup semi-frequently. - Jonathan M Davis I agree there is value to having a strong online presence, but I personally don't approach my online interactions as if every bit of it was part of a portfolio. That is something I believe you have to plan for from the start, but for many, that ship has sailed ;) The biggest problem though, is that you can't control what every random internet crawler decides is a popular bit of conversation. For example, if you try to answer enough questions on stackoverflow, eventually, you're going to get one wrong. Sometimes, moronically so. So if some random search engine decides that that particular question is a popular one, you could easily have that [i]proud[/i] moment coming up as your #1 google search result. I'm certain that even in a year's time, I'll look back at some of my questions/statements on dlang.org, and frown. Except the one about conditional version statements, of course ;) Bit
Re: Github names & avatars
On 05/13/2016 01:19 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Actually, given the blatant misogyny frequently on display on this forum, Don't claim things that inflammatory when they obviously aren't true.
Re: Github names & avatars
On 17 May 2016 at 23:08, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-dwrote: > On 5/17/16 12:39 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> >> On 14 May 2016 at 03:18, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d >> wrote: >>> >>> On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than >>> @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I >>> actually >>> don't mind if people call me schveiguy! >> >> >> You know that github has separate records for your handle and your >> name...? Both are presented on github. >> > > Yes, I know. And to make matters worse, when I get github emails, the full > name is used, but when I look at the PR comments, only the handle appears. > So it's not always obvious the mapping between the two. > > It's unclear whether the request from Walter was for handles or names (his > full name is used for both). Right. It seems unreasonable to ask people to change their handles. In most cases, people have been using the same handle for decades...
Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/17/16 12:39 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 14 May 2016 at 03:18, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-dwrote: On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I actually don't mind if people call me schveiguy! You know that github has separate records for your handle and your name...? Both are presented on github. Yes, I know. And to make matters worse, when I get github emails, the full name is used, but when I look at the PR comments, only the handle appears. So it's not always obvious the mapping between the two. It's unclear whether the request from Walter was for handles or names (his full name is used for both). -Steve
Re: Github names & avatars
On 14 May 2016 at 03:18, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-dwrote: > On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add >> to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. > > > Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than > @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I actually > don't mind if people call me schveiguy! You know that github has separate records for your handle and your name...? Both are presented on github.
Re: [OT] Re: Github names & avatars
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 22:23:21 UTC, dewitt wrote: On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:02:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: [...] I think the bigger issue is the fact that every photo is now called a selfie. [...] On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 22:23:21 UTC, dewitt wrote: I screwed the subject line up. Hope this fixes it. :)
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:02:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. I think the bigger issue is the fact that every photo is now called a selfie. Personally all the places I have worked Besides the USMC and gov, my bosses could give two s**ts about your life. In fact if they saw something funny on github, they'd prolly be more inclined to interview. The PC crowd would love to ruin the careers of ppl they don't agree with but if thats who your applying from then thats on you. I have never lived in SF so I am just gonna stereotype that stuff that happens there doesn't happen everywhere. If your posting vile stuff on your real name then thats on you. Remember the Internet can screw you and you not even be at fault. If anyone remembers a certain very tragic event a couple years ago back East (which I will not name) and the media was blasting the brother's name as the perpetrator. Imagine how that guy feels now and he didn't have anything to do with his life being screwed over. If you ever make a mistake just remember WWTD (What Would Trump Do) and say "Yea I said it so what" Bottomline: For every employer with a stick up their a**, there is one that is actually a human being and knows ppl make mistakes.
Re: [OT] Re: Github names & avatars
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 19:19:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/13/2016 10:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Your name is your brand. Probably the most obvious example of this is Trump. Long before he got into politics, he understood his name was his brand, and never lost an opportunity promote his brand (and profit off of it). In fact, I stopped using pseudonyms online for my professional work because I watched "The Apprentice" and realized that he had the right idea. Also, think of the top programmers in the business. They all do things online under their own names. If I would guess, I would say that using your own name instead of a fake one is OK. However, I would be cautious. Please, mind the survivor bias! Would someone post here if he lost his engineering career because of a comment on the internet? Of course not! How many of those unlucky guys are there per one successful one? 10, 1, 0.01, 0.01? You can't know until you actually do hard work collecting actual statistical data. For everything anyone writes there are pretty much as many interpretations as the readers. And vague claims about touchy subjects are million times worse. If someone has a bad day, this really can turn out badly. Culture differences make it even worse. What is a technical disagreement in one country can be racism in another. Given sufficiently many words, those things can happen. A joke can be easily misunderstood as something completely different than intended. Also, social media sometimes spreads the news about people's textual mistakes. Just google "careers destroyed by social media". Also, you assume that you are going to be judged by technical merit alone, which is fair enough if you are white male with good reputation, living in a country known for its love for freedom of speech. It may be very different if you are a poor immigrant girl in a third world country trying to convince a prospective employer to give you the first chance at trying to do some programming. Another bias: Everyone always wants to think they are always victims and never the perpetrators, but still somehow perpetrators exist. After all, I would never say anything hurtful to anyone ever, right? And those people who accidentally hit pedestrians with cars are always pure evil, and I could never be one of them, right? Noone could ever be one of those until he is. :) There's a reason why stuff like correspondence is traditionally private.
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 18:31:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's quite difficult to find a real-name handle on github when you have three of the most common names in the English language! Use D namespace! d-mike-parker is free.
[OT] Re: Github names & avatars
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Re: Github names & avatars
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Re: Github names & avatars
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.
Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/13/16, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-dwrote: > I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to > that > if you could have a selfie as your github image. With some web apps like Slack (team chat software) each user can pick whether the app should display nicknames or full names of other people. For Github this already works with auto-complete, they would just have to add the optional feature to always display the full name.
Re: [OT] Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/13/2016 10:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Your name is your brand. Probably the most obvious example of this is Trump. Long before he got into politics, he understood his name was his brand, and never lost an opportunity promote his brand (and profit off of it). In fact, I stopped using pseudonyms online for my professional work because I watched "The Apprentice" and realized that he had the right idea. Also, think of the top programmers in the business. They all do things online under their own names.
Re: Github names & avatars
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 15:57:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: There's always a risk of someone seeing what you post, not liking it, and reacting badly too it, and if that's your employer, you could be in trouble. But in general, when we're talking about stuff that relates to your profession and not general social networking, then I don't think that that's it's often an issue. If you're talking in this newsgroup about D and programming topics, and you're discussing technical stuff in the reviews on github, then I don't think that you're really at much risk of having a problem with your employer due to a remark that you make. Where that's far more likely to get you bitten is places like facebook where you're chatting about random stuff. Personally, I post under my real name (or something obviously related to it like jmdavis) in all of the programming-related places I post in. And I think that that's very valuable from the perspective of showing potential employers that I'm actually competent and that others think that I'm competent. However, when I post on sites talking about stray stuff that has nothing to do with my profession, I post under pseudonyms and don't provide anything that would give any obvious hints as to who I am. There's no benefit to linking that stuff to my real name, whereas there is with programming stuff. Places like facebook or google+ are where you end up generally posting under your own name and talking about random junk that might get you in trouble if the wrong person sees it. But I don't have a facebook account, and I don't do much on g+, so personally, I'm at a low risk of problems with that. Still, any time you post under your real name, you should be mindful that pretty much anyone could end up seeing it whether you intend for that to happen or not, and dumb remarks _could_ come back to bite you. It helps though if you make few dumb remarks. ;) But in the case of places like this, if you mostly stick to professional topics and are generally civil, then I really don't think that you're at much risk of getting in trouble over it. And if you've built a good professional brand online, then in the rare case that you _do_ get in trouble over it, then you'll have an easier time getting a new job. - Jonathan M Davis Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (attributed to Cardinal Richelieu) If they're out to get you, they'll get you anyway. Now you can do one of two things: you can say, "Why take the risk?" and stay anonymous or you can say "Life is full of risks anyway", and show your real name. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
Re: Github names & avatars
On 2016-05-13 19:02, Walter Bright wrote: I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. I think it's confusing with inconsistency. For example, committing with an email address that doesn't match the ones register for the GitHub account. Having multiple accounts, i.e. several Sociomantic developers have, what seems to be, both a personal account and a Sociomantic account. I don't know the policy Sociomantic has when it comes to GitHub accounts. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:01:17 UTC, Meta wrote: On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 18:56:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: If some company won't hire you because you contributed code to D, I'd say you dodged a bullet working for such! When I was young, I worried about what other people thought of me. When I was middle aged, I stopped caring what other people thought of me. When I was old, I realized nobody thought about me. Unfortunately, you can't just say whatever you want nowadays and expect people to respect your freedom to do so. So many careers have been lost over some flippant tweet or Github comment that complete anonymity is the only sane option, whenever possible. There's a difference between losing a job and losing a career, and whilst losing a job may not be much fun it is not the worst thing that can happen to a person, and may looking back from some years be better than not losing a job. The public instances of people being fired for violating politically correct norms are highly salient but can easily lead to a distorted picture of the real risks. And what appears to be going on is not always the real story. For example Larry Summers appeared to be fired as President of Harvard (or whatever his title was) for some remarks he made about the implications of differences in variance of two groups. But that can't be understood without realising that he lost the support of many people before that for standing up for Schleifer, a very talented economist but one who certainly did some things wrong in relation to certain activities in Russia. So when the later hoohah was raised, he didn't have much support. I think Andrei and Walter are right about the value of establishing a brand for most people. One's strengths may also be weaknesses, and it is much better to have people hire you because they value what you can do and understand and know up front what difficulties that might imply and don't mind it than try to be bland and fit in and have them discover that later. It's a big world, and there are many people that are looking for someone exactly like you (and you only need one of them), so it's not the end of the world if by exposing yourself as you are some people realise that you are not their cup of tea. I am not speaking theoretically but based also on practical experience - myself and people whose situations I have known. Of course people are in different situations, and I am sure there are cases where this might not apply. Political correctness though is dead - its very brittleness and shrillness is also its death rattle - but it will take a little while for that to be completely clear. People at the best firms are slowly starting to realise that the incredible risk aversion about hiring and the work environment has led to having an army of trained monkeys, and in the long run its not good business to have only such. There's an advantage to being one of the earlier people to not be afraid to present oneself as one is because it is still quite rare. A little courage goes a long way in life.
Re: Github names & avatars
I stick with my pseudonym. I don't go to great lengths to protect my identity. You could probably figure out my name and address if you really wanted to. The concern isn't so much the government, but other individuals doing harm to you. We live in a world which is very politically correct, and on the other hand there are a lot of people who are just mean. You're much safer if you make a point not to give out too much personal information in public spaces. Brendan Eich is probably the best example I know of where someone lost their job for not having the right opinions.
Re: Github names & avatars
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 08:24:32 UTC, Joakim wrote: taken it to now. It just means, "Stick to the technical topics," particularly in this forum, which is mostly feasible, but people have other interests too and discussions wander to the connected world. Without a clear moderation policy and a capable moderator it just means the «sensibilities and favouritism» of the moderator at hand. The D forums show symptoms of this. Being a good moderator is difficult though especially if you are emotionally invested in the topic. Ideally the moderator shouldn't be invested in the topic at hand. So often the better solution is to have different forum sections and divert/direct different groups to the different sections. Telling people to move regular communication off to another community is counter productive and impractical. It is typically the opposite of what you should do to grow a stronger community. Anyway, talking religion and politics in a work setting is perfectly fine in a sane working environment. It is very difficult to get to know people without talking beliefs and values. Getting to know people is what makes communities healthy and strong. Anxiety isn't good for growth, a culture with a relaxed and laid back attitude to different opinions is much better for growth. Using your real name online is an artifact of the real world that doesn't work too well: I read a good analogy once that compared it to shouting out your real name every time you enter a real room, which nobody does. We're moving to a more anonymous virtual world where most everyone will be using nicknames, we're just not there yet, largely because the culture at large is just not used to it yet. I don't know. Younger people often go with the anonymous "cool" handle, but as people get older they tend to go with their real name? Besides, if you use the same handle you aren't really anonymous anyway. It is usually easy to track down people's real identities based on the information they share by systematic googling. If you really want to. Most people don't really want to, but anonymity is usually not easy to achieve if you want meaningful communication over time. However, providing just date+time+identity can become a problem. Say, if an employee is on sick leave and is active on github in the same period. So even seemingly innocent information can be sensitive given the circumstances (depending on the nature of the employer-employee relationship).
Re: Github names & avatars
On 13 May 2016 at 19:18, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-dwrote: > On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add >> to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. > > > Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than > @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I actually > don't mind if people call me schveiguy! > > In fact, I have a counter-proposal. Instead of putting people's real names > on their dconf name tags, let's just have their github handles :P. > Having initial+surname as my moniker means that no one pronounces it correctly. Then again most people don't even get my first name right either! "Yienne" is probably my favourite mispronunciation it.
Re: [OT] Re: Github names & avatars
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 05:08:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I honestly think this concern is overrated, sometimes to the extent it becomes a fallacy. The converse benefits of anonymity are also exaggerated in my opinion. You have nothing to fear because you didn't (and hopefully won't) experience internet mob justice [1]. People loose their jobs over internet arguments [2] and get swatted [3]. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/internet-mob-justice-gone-far/ https://magnetricity.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/feminist-slander-campaign-backfires-perpetrator-loses-job/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 22:18:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/13/2016 1:54 PM, Xinok wrote: I've known a couple people who had to apply for over 200-300 positions before they finally got a job in their field. Life isn't so convenient that we can pick and choose which job we want. Sometimes, you've gotta take what you can get. Ironically, hiding contributions under a pseudonym may make one a less desirable candidate because nobody will know that you're any good. Not really, you can always put your github profile on your resume, ie selectively unveil your pseudonym for certain potential employers. But suppose one of these people was a member of the D community and they get turned down for every job they apply for because the employer discovered something dumb they posted in this thread: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gpcyapiqlkpfahrzf...@forum.dlang.org The internet never forgets so a little anonymity is a good thing. Note that this is a professional forum, not a chat room. I have suggested many times that people maintain a professional decorum here, i.e. don't post things that are unacceptable to say at work. 1. Using a pseudonym here is not license to be a jerk 2. It's not that hard to adhere to a professional standard of conduct 3. If you want to vent about politics and religion, reddit is just a click away For a "professional forum," perhaps this is all true, though the term "professional" really is a euphemism for "don't offend anyone you're working with," which becomes ridiculous with the levels the professional offense-grievers and PC police have taken it to now. It just means, "Stick to the technical topics," particularly in this forum, which is mostly feasible, but people have other interests too and discussions wander to the connected world. 4. Consider your name as your professional brand. By posting and githubbing under your name, there's a significant opportunity to enhance your brand, which translates into being able to get better jobs at higher pay. Anonymity is a fine way to have to send out hundreds of resumes to get a job. Being a well-known contributor to a prestigious project is a shortcut to better things. Not everyone wants to have their name as their professional brand, or wants any kind of "brand." I know this is the conventional wisdom, but it's not like "well-known contributor to a prestigious project" gets you on billboards anyway, :) so there is very little upside to such "branding" and a lot of downside. Using your real name online is an artifact of the real world that doesn't work too well: I read a good analogy once that compared it to shouting out your real name every time you enter a real room, which nobody does. We're moving to a more anonymous virtual world where most everyone will be using nicknames, we're just not there yet, largely because the culture at large is just not used to it yet. On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:19:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:02:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: In today's surveillance state, the government already knows your name and what you look like, so being anonymous on github is a bit pointless, as if anyone cares that you are interested in D. I can understand if you're a celebrity or want nobody to know you're a dog, but that doesn't apply to most of us. Actually, given the blatant misogyny frequently on display on this forum, about 51% of the world's population - literally most of us - have a perfectly understandable reason to maintain some level of anonymity in this community. You must be reading some other forum than I am or have some strange standards for such an epithet. If you're referring to the recent thread started by the language researcher, all I saw was a bunch of people sharing their anecdotal experiences, speculating on reasons for the documented gender gap, and mentioning statistical evidence for what the underlying reasons might be, none of which is "blatant" or any other kind of "misogyny." If you're referring to some other threads, hard to believe it's so "frequent" that I've never seen it, though I certainly don't skim every thread, as you say you do.
Re: Github names & avatars
On 05/13/2016 03:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Ironically, hiding contributions under a pseudonym may make one a less desirable candidate because nobody will know that you're any good. This. Being a well-known contributor to a prestigious project is a shortcut to better things. Yep. Ali
Re: Github names & avatars
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 08:09:51AM +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 5/14/16 12:01 AM, Meta wrote: > >So many careers have been lost over some flippant tweet or Github > >comment that complete anonymity is the only sane option, whenever > >possible. > > Could you bring some evidence or list a few anecdotes over the careers > lost over a tweet or github comment? Thx! -- Andrei Not sure how reliable this is, but a realtor friend of mine had a colleague who got fired from the realtor company because of a remark made IIRC on Facebook (or one of those social media things) about his personal values that somebody in power in the company didn't agree with. Not every employer cuts you slack the way we net-savvy people expect reasonable people would. Personally, I think this kind of occurrence is relatively rare, but still, it's very real. T -- Тише едешь, дальше будешь.
Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/14/16 12:01 AM, Meta wrote: So many careers have been lost over some flippant tweet or Github comment that complete anonymity is the only sane option, whenever possible. Could you bring some evidence or list a few anecdotes over the careers lost over a tweet or github comment? Thx! -- Andrei
[OT] Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/13/16 11:54 PM, Xinok wrote: On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 18:56:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: If some company won't hire you because you contributed code to D, I'd say you dodged a bullet working for such! I've known a couple people who had to apply for over 200-300 positions before they finally got a job in their field. Life isn't so convenient that we can pick and choose which job we want. Sometimes, you've gotta take what you can get. But suppose one of these people was a member of the D community and they get turned down for every job they apply for because the employer discovered something dumb they posted in this thread: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gpcyapiqlkpfahrzf...@forum.dlang.org The internet never forgets so a little anonymity is a good thing. I honestly think this concern is overrated, sometimes to the extent it becomes a fallacy. The converse benefits of anonymity are also exaggerated in my opinion. My own experience is evidence. A simple pattern I followed throughout is: 1. Do good work 2. Put your name next to it 3. Goto 1 I've written a large number of things by my name that I shouldn't have, the most epic being probably http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2002/01/23189.php. But if the prevalent pattern is good work under your name, then you stand to gain a _lot_. People understand the occasional fluke - and this community is a prime example. Your name is your brand. (In the US quite literally anybody can do business using their name as the company name with no extra paperwork.) You have the option to build your brand and walk into a room and just say it to earn instantly everyone's respect and attention. Or you can introduce yourself and then awkwardly list the various handles under you might also be known. I was repeatedly surprised (this week most recently) at the brand power my name has in the most unexpected circumstances. Andrei
Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/13/2016 10:19 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: It is nice to have a consistent pseudonym for matching up forum posts with irc with github etc., but let's not make this a requirement. It's a suggestion, not a requirement. I respect that some people have good reasons for anonymity.
Re: Github names & avatars
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:02:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: In today's surveillance state, the government already knows your name and what you look like, so being anonymous on github is a bit pointless, as if anyone cares that you are interested in D. I can understand if you're a celebrity or want nobody to know you're a dog, but that doesn't apply to most of us. Actually, given the blatant misogyny frequently on display on this forum, about 51% of the world's population - literally most of us - have a perfectly understandable reason to maintain some level of anonymity in this community. It is nice to have a consistent pseudonym for matching up forum posts with irc with github etc., but let's not make this a requirement.
Re: Github names & avatars
On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I actually don't mind if people call me schveiguy! In fact, I have a counter-proposal. Instead of putting people's real names on their dconf name tags, let's just have their github handles :P. It avoids when people who post as "Fred" on the newsgroup submit PRs as "HorseWrangler" and get annoyed when I don't realize they are the same person, and then I overlook them at the conference because I have no idea what they look like. Please don't make me learn @dicebot's real name :) -Steve