> For example, my very existence as a moderately young, moderately successful computer scientist threatens some men’s sense of identity, thus making them uncomfortable and/or lash out.
I'm not a woman, but I faced this soooo many times in my career that now I believe that it's just insecure men feeling threatened by other people's knowledge or capabilities. Usually these people are hiding something and they are not as smart as perceived. Having someone in the room that can potentially unmask that makes them insecure.
You have to address the behavior the first time it occurs by establishing boundaries otherwise it keeps happening more and more.
And that is a leadership/management failure to address these behaviors. In all occasions the insecure men were so loud and obnoxious that management prefers not to deal with it and take the easy route by firing the target of the abuse, reinforcing the behavior more and more.
>I'm not a woman, but I faced this soooo many times in my career that now I believe that it's just insecure men feeling threatened by other people's knowledge or capabilities. Usually these people are hiding something and they are not as smart as perceived. Having someone in the room that can potentially unmask that makes them insecure.
Funny you mention this. The worst career experience I ever had was with a woman who was insecure about herself. She routinely gave me a hard time and butted heads with me on issues where I was actually right many times. By the way, she got promoted to be my manager (something that one more senior guy expected from the first time he met her years before). I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand her. Arrogance is not a uniquely or even predominantly masculine trait in this industry. It's a relatively common thing among programmers, especially young ones.
And if you're gonna blame the upper management for my experience, I've just gotta say that you are naive. They are the ones who put that woman in place and were biased in her favor. Nothing I could have said about her obnoxious behavior would have made a bit of difference. More likely than not, I would have been targetted for even more frustrating BS.
And if you're gonna accuse me of not liking women somehow, my current manager is a woman and she's one of the better ones I've had. I'm talking about the assumption that all toxic personalities are owned by men, and that women are inherently disadvantaged. They are not as a whole. In this industry, there is more variance among members of each gender than there is between genders. Men and women want different things out of life generally. But if you look at similar types of people, their gender hardly matters.
It can be ignored (it's the equivalent to a "keep out" sign on a lawn), but I very much doubt Google et al. (Edit: Oops, Bing et al.) will actually ignore it.
I wonder how much they pay. Reddit profits a lot from showing up on the top for many search queries. I very often do "whatever I'm looking for reddit" (for e.g. product reviews), since the reddit results often provide higher quality information than normal results.
Google sometimes ignore it when it makes sense (ie big bank accidentally adds login page to ignore) or to check for spam activity (in which case google doesn't use their bot user agent)
At some point, we should stop thinking about engine/theme. This is a "normal" website.
This kind of blog/website can easily be done by writing every blog post in a separate html file then doing a quick script to put together the index.
Your script could also add use a very simple template for each page, template in which you can use your own CSS. (here, it is an external file containing 142 lines of straightforward CSS).
Yes, I did it for my own blog. But I also added the fact that I would like to write my posts in the Gemtext format. So I wrote a parser to convert it to HTML.
And, in the end, it proved to be quicker and easier to do it all by hand myself than to learn any templating engine or any static website generator. Also, I never understood CSS (I’m really really bad at that) but managed to do what I want in exactly 42 lines of CSS. And, guess what, lot of people are asking me where I found my "theme".
I think that everybody working with the Web should be required to do a pure HTML/simple CSS website at least once to realize how easy and straightforward it is to NOT use any engine/theme.
And how much time and energy we are wasting on layers above layers above layers.
> Your script could also add use a very simple template for each page, template in which you can use your own CSS. (here, it is an external file containing 142 lines of straightforward CSS).
> Yes, I did it for my own blog [...]
So, you created a custom engine, which is what parent was asking about.
The way I read it, he moved on from ikiwiki to his "newest approach", which looks to me like regular hand-written html+css. And why not, it's just a bunch of words, no frameworks necessary. This guy has software running on Mars so making a good old '90s style website by hand seems appropriate.
That's what I interpreted at least one of the times, but if you follow the "new approach" (it's a link) it takes you to a blog that is old (according to dates) and does not match the current styling
I could definitely be wrong, as it's still a bit ambiguous to me
I had two similar experiences in the past years: I added some database indices, the application become super fast, the rest of the team starts acting weird, I get shown the door.
At this point I'm pretty sure anything IT relate became a bullshit job.
I'm not a woman, but I faced this soooo many times in my career that now I believe that it's just insecure men feeling threatened by other people's knowledge or capabilities. Usually these people are hiding something and they are not as smart as perceived. Having someone in the room that can potentially unmask that makes them insecure.
You have to address the behavior the first time it occurs by establishing boundaries otherwise it keeps happening more and more.
And that is a leadership/management failure to address these behaviors. In all occasions the insecure men were so loud and obnoxious that management prefers not to deal with it and take the easy route by firing the target of the abuse, reinforcing the behavior more and more.