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Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Get yourself a proxy.

One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost: : http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne... This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality. A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out w…

Where I work, we have to ssh tunnel. Our cvs, bug tracker, internal websites and other servers are all located on the other side of the world, and only accessible through a tunnel.

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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This is great. But why isn't it async?

The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.

I'd like some code that writes itself ;-)

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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I spend most of my day talking with customers and reviewing contracts etc.. As much as I would love to, I think if my boss caught me looking at code like this he would fire me !

So we need to come up with one that looks like a contract, maybe?

If I weren't trying to get away and do WBC differentials...

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Get yourself a proxy.

One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost: : http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne... This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality. A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out w…

This is what I do to get around blocks on some IM services. I work for a large, well-known and presumably IT-savvy organization. Nobody has confronted me about it yet, which in itself is actually kind of worrying. I half expected an IT SWAT team to rappel through the window after starting the tunnel.

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Or try getting a new work...

or (better) a new job (I hope I understand the difference between these words)

'Work' is sometimes used to mean 'office' or 'job'. For example, someone might say 'Why don't you drop by my work after lunch?'

I think that's the usage the parent meant; possibly, it was an intentionally awkward but colloquially valid variation on the grandparent's post.

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