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I'll grant you that there are many high quality answers / discussions at SO. I also have no problem asserting that SO is infested with karma whores. They also have terrible moderation, and chippy pithy users with all manner of unproductive discussion habits. In other words, they suffer the same types of faults as other forums. I'm glad for you that you that you've had a positive experience on SO, obviously some users do; so have I, to the extent that I don't bother engaging in discussion, but rather just use the place to find the answer I want, and then just leave as soon as I am done with my research. As far as the anecdotes in that HN thread I posted earlier go, jfc isn't alone, there are pages of similar anecdotes in the same thread in addition to plenty of similar criticism elsewhere in the internet.

If they'll make you an offer, they'll make at least one counter-offer.

and also ping by the same author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muuss

Yeah, it's an unfortunate added frustration for beginners, but one you can quickly overcome, once you're made aware.

Well, if you work for a state college/uni/other entity like I do, then the salary information is public. Former employers can say or do what they like, they rarely do anything other than verify dates of employment, confirm a few facts, out of a perceived fear of a civil suit, (I guess). Credit reporting agencies OTOH, and other similar companies use all sorts of information to build profiles about you / your habits / other demographic data, and I'd be surprised if there weren't some of these companies who would sell either predicted (and perhaps erroneous) salary range for you, or a factual (if partial) salary history mined from various sources.

>I wonder if you could just counter the request by saying you signed a NDA that forbid sharing that information.

Seems reasonable, or some version of "No thanks, I'd rather not."

I can't agree. Stackoverflow does some things well, but there are reasons that it hasn't caught on outside a certain cohort who were either there first, or who are very dedicated to cultivating their karma.

HN user jfc said it better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650975

Not so fast. You think up your own million dollar business ideas!

They won't stammer. They will without the slightest bit of shame attempt to cajole/badger/guilt/etc you into revealing the information. Then they may also engage in a background check / credit report goose chase to get or infer the information.

You say "you dodged a FUCKING BULLET", and I agree in principle, but in practice, a lot of employers do this, and a lot of people submit themselves to this kind of crap which makes you stick out more (like a sore thumb) when you don't.

3, but when you find some snippet on the web that you want to try and it doesn't work, try not to forget that it may have been written in the Python 2 syntax.

    print thing    # Works in Python 2

    print(thing)   # the parenthesis are optional in Python 2

    print(thing)   # the parenthesis are required in Python 3

A lot of problems I've encountered in the transition are a result of the huge amount of simple examples available to newcomers which are written in the Python 2 syntax.

>If you go with a small town bank, they're often self-funding the loans and won't ever sell them off (which is exactly why I went with a small-town bank).

I think a lot of small banks have quit writing mortgages, rather than deal with the Dodd-Frank rules.

It did formerly via Carrier IQ, which was widely reported in the press. So that's not unprecedented.

Why?

They are also not that great if you happen to annoy the wrong people. See for example Barrett Brown, John Kiriakou, et al.

http://www.johnkiriakou.com/books/letters-from-loretto/

Lord it's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here? Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars It's been the same way for years We need a change

Somebody told me, when I came to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here, and we're all sure that you will But I don't think Hank done it this way No, I don't think Hank done it this way

Ten years on the road, makin' one night stands Speedin' my young life away Tell me one more time just so's I'll understand Are your sure Hank done it this way? Did ol' Hank really do it this way?

Lord I've seen the world, with a five piece band Looking at the back side of me Singing my songs, and one of his now and then But I don't think Hank done 'em this way I don't think Hank done 'em this way. Take it home.

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If they really wanted to help users switching from Linux/Unix etc. then invoking commands like 'ls' would display a help page informing users how to get the functionality from native tools.

GEO Group too.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ACXW%2C+NYSE%3AGEO

Yes. Natural gas is absurdly cheap in most of the US, most of the time due to the facts that (as you say) most of it is landlocked, or stranded, or some form of can't get it to market because of the pipeline network; and that Aubrey Mcclendon leased up half the damned country and frac'ed it all as fast as he could, flooding the markets. We see periodic rises when the Northeast has a cold winter, but unless LNG exporting becomes a thing we'll be in the low single digits for another five or ten years or more.

They look in your mouth and make assumptions that fit their preconceived notions. ie: "These teeth are in good shape, this person must've followed my advice on brushing and flossing!"

Notably absent are predictions of chaos/order from the monks and attendant pleas for money.

Inconvenient facts that don't help the F-35 agenda are national security secrets.

No but I have noticed that when the state reduces its funding contribution, that tuition rises to compensate.

Driving the speed limit, on the highway. If you ever hear the turbo, back out of it. IP timing was tweaked just a bit, but other than that it is a bone stock 1996 Dodge 3500. And, yeah, it's a clapped out just rolled 300,000 mile truck.

I like my old 12 valve Cummins because it has power, and gets 24 MPG on the highway.

The cost is down into hobbyist range. Not the cheapest hobby, but not a big deal for a lot of people. Look up USRP, HackRF, and BladeRf. I think BladeRf is the cheapest at $420.00 USD.

If you've got Cat 5 installed, then ~$10 per port can fix that for you.

It's not worth it because the cost of obtaining the expertise to do it is higher than the taxes.

I've been playing CS on Linux for about 15 years.

Surprisingly deep, and correct.

Talking about the FCC chair is definitely relevant content, as opposed to a general politics post. Wheeler is the FCC chair, and the FCC impacts the tech industry in about a billion and a half different ways, maybe more than any other single federal agency.