Github names & avatars

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

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.