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The article is locked behind a paywall.

[meta] Perhaps if you posted a "Tell HN:" style comment with your summary of the article and included a link with a warning that it's subscription-only, we would get more utility from the posting. [/meta]

In general it sounds like a great deal -- freelance-type hours but with a regular paycheck and health benefits.

I had a similar position once and it was great for my family. I never had to miss anything important and had no commute. The only con was lack of face-time with peers.

What are your concerns? It sounds like you are looking for some hidden gotcha.

EDIT: I posted my comment prior to your edit. So, here's my counter-edit :-)

I suggest talking to an accountant. He/She will be able to tell you what costs to keep track of and how to put aside enough for taxes -- and possibly if you're getting a good deal.

Were I to pay for this kind of service I'd want to know who's looking at me (not just how many times). Are the hiring companies vetted in any way?

There has to be more balance in the model. Employers can look at you and see how your peers (or actually, anyone with an account) rate you. Hiring companies should be similarly exposed.

As I understood it, we provide the content, we pay for the service, maybe we get job offers from companies that don't suck. Who's getting the most value from this arrangement.

(let me state for the record that I really, really like SO. I'm just iffy about this careers business model)

It would be good to offer the service free to the unemployed (if that could even be verified). It's terrible practice to charge people for access to a job if they need the money for food.

Maybe a more fair arrangement would be to offer the service free after X number of comments or questions contributed. That way, even if you don't get a job out of it, there's a direct relationship between what you contribute to SO and what you get (aside from all the free knowledge).

This is only a vulnerability if you don't know what ldd does. The problem is that it's not necessarily easy to find out what ldd does.

The man pages for Solaris 8-10 will tell you not to run it on untrusted files. But, if you Google "man ldd" you may get this page (the first result for me, btw):

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ldd+1

Which is very sparse. If you are not an experienced SA you may not notice that the information is old, or not applicable to your platform. There are a lot of quasi-administrators (techy folk in your dept. w/ admin privileges) who may be vulnerable to social engineering by a consultant or evil employee (I've seen both happen).

We are all vulnerable to what we don't know.

Maybe we should start a grassroots campaign to insist that SPARC is pronounced "sparsee".

The article would be better if it provided a link to the survey as well as resources about SSL (for users and developers).

I've configured https servers (with a cert from Verisign and self-signed) and thought that communication to-and-from those servers was encrypted, and thus secure. Now I'm wondering what I've misunderstood.

I think about money going into my bank account. Makes the distractions seem more expensive (I'm currently salaried and it still works).

Allowing your site's users to create and share their own graphs through the content would be a useful tool.

People absorb concepts differently so you won't know beforehand the best way to present the material. This feature would allow say, another experienced math teacher, to create their version of the best journey through Mathematics.

You can then keep track of the most popular graphs (through voting or usage).

This feature would also help with your "but where then?" question. If a graph creator thinks "basic number theory" should go between fractions and algebra but, there's no article about "basic number theory" then just putting it into their graph will create a stub article.

Keeping track of stub articles would then let you know what topics are needed the most.

Can't wait to see what you come up with.