I wonder if he's going to listen to the advice and present as more milquetoast when using his real name, or double down.
I mean I have some pretty fringe beliefs too (mainly on the strongly anti-capitalist, progressive side of things). I'm not stupid enough to post those ideas publicly because they're far more likely to hurt my chances of employment than to help them.
But it's a good thing that companies find this out because I'm not a good fit for a sterile work environment.
My original post was not asking why; it was refuting the article that said it was a good thing in its face.
Not that I necessarily agree with that, but how are you refuting it?
The posts that make you stand out the most don't really demonstrate creativity, nor do they make you stand out in a positive way (to most employers; perhaps not to any employers, since you're so publicly opinionated on a variety of things that are largely unrelated and yet also largely unaligned with the majority of tech workers)
I'm not refuting that you have technical writing that could make you stand out in a positive way, but it's overshadowed by all the other stuff.
It's like if someone posted "You only have to write one operating system from scratch to stand out as a candidate", and then Terry Davis (author of TempleOS) comes in and says "not true, I wrote an operating system and no one will hire me"
Well sure, but if you look at the comments in the source code for that or any of his writing or videos, they're riddled with racial slurs.
Obviously the OS itself is impressive, but no one wants to hire a liability
The article had an implicit bent that standing out was good. When you're like me, it's not. That's what I was refuting.
To offer an extreme example, if someone were to put up a website that advocates for child cannibalism, and then didn't get a tech job as a result, I don't think it'd be credible for them to say that their website refutes this article's point.
As an aside, your comment that any work environment that might object to your views must be "sterile" is yet another piece of supporting evidence for why you might have trouble finding a job.
Well, yeah, but I'm European, which means I'm practically a Communist ;) I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt, because "dude, tone it down a bit, you're spookin' the horses" is easier to swallow than "everything you believe is wrong".
