Recent content by Maroon_sl

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    Company bought - potential incentives to stay?

    My job will be going away for sure. I'm guessing they will need to offer some serious incentive for core people to stay so the business can operate during the transition. The office has about 80 people and we have 180 retails stores that will be flipped over to the new company gradually...
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    Company bought - potential incentives to stay?

    My company is being acquired and I'm in a bit of a pinch. I have a new opportunity but I'm afraid to commit and leave before I find out what incentives they offer me to stick it out during the transition. I literally have no idea I if would be 1k or 100k. Has anyone been through this...
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    Network Security

    I'm setting up a web server (ubuntu server 12.4 with lamp stack) that will be accessible from the internet for fun/education/hosting. In regard to security, I think i'm a little confused on how i should be setting up this machine in a way that prevents access to my private LAN. is...
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    Punk Music

    some Boston punk The Trouble The FreeZe Disrupt DROPDEAD(Rhode Island or Connecticut) Decrepit (Seattle)
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    Punk Music

    One of my favorites from my punk years: Civil Disobedience thanks to this thread prompting me to look them up, i learned they just release a discography in November called 'the whole 9 grams' on H.F.T. Records.
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    Software Engineering or Computer Science?

    As it has been said, learning on your own with practical experience is the best way to start out. One important thing for me was finding a REASON to write code. Churning through tutorials on youtube can be helpful sometimes, but if you have a specific project to work on it, you might find that...
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    Lurkers (reloaded)

    The lurker formally known as crrimson death. Made that name 10 years ago and thought it was time to move on/wave