Tangent: Ever notice how some of the most interesting threads on SO are [closed]? Especially the ones linked to from HN. Edit: BTW, I didn't mean to imply that

Tangent: Ever notice how some of the most interesting threads on SO are [closed]? Especially the ones linked to from HN. Edit: BTW, I didn't mean to imply that this was necessarily a bad thing. It's in keeping with the facts, not opinion, guidelines of SO, but an [opinion] tag might be a nice addition to SO. In this case, the question wasn't bad, and although some of the answers are mere speculation, comments like the one made by Larry Osterman help put to rest some of the BS that gets spread around in this industry.