Physicist here, so of course I've heard of ORNL, as well as been there. I did not know that ORNL was not on the GS pay scale, which is interesting.
I think you may get more responses if you change your headline to something like "Ask HN: Software Engineers, your opinion of Oak Ridge NL?". The software folks may not be aware that you are asking them. You could possibly even call them developers, but I'm not sure which crowd you are aiming for.
I think you may get more responses if you change your headline to something like "Ask HN: Software Engineers, your opinion of Oak Ridge NL?". The software folks may not be aware that you are asking them. You could possibly even call them developers, but I'm not sure which crowd you are aiming for.