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Re: Tell us your naughty stories

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Post by bnycum »

jasonkester wrote: post #63

Fast Food Hack: When I was in highschool, Burger King ran this "checkers" game, where you'd get a card with a little checkerboard on it, then scratch your way across it by picking squares until you either lost or won a prize. The one feature they advertised was that "Every card is a winner", meaning that if you picked the right path you were guaranteed to win something. A friend had a sister who worked at a Burger Ki…

I was once in San Francisco at a Burger King and noticed one of the workers doing something besides working while I was waiting for my food. They were scratching the scratch off tickets for whatever contest was going on at the time. I decided to snap a picture with my (horrible) cell phone at the time to send to the consumerist when the manager noticed me. She quickly ran over to the worker and told the worker to go do that in an area more private. I was pretty shocked, but I enjoyed my burger and went on.

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Post by dholowiski »

harold wrote: post #238

I once had a client that paid with a bad check. To make matters worse, the check had arrived several weeks late. Rumor had it that his business was on shaky ground. I knew something was up when the teller at my bank noticed the client's name and said they would have to verify the check (check was drawn on a different bank) And of course it was revealed there were non sufficient funds. Bad check in hand, I went to his…

Epic hack.

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Post by bnycum »

Once in middle school we had a test in a history class that just totally slipped my mind. Our class period was divided by lunch, and everyday during lunch there were 2 girls that stayed behind and ate lunch with the teacher and helped her grade. Turns out they stole the test the day before while the teacher ran to make copies during lunch. The girls share this information with everyone they can find, for every history class. I find out right before class but only manage to snag 5 answers. We took the test, and soon the teacher caught on when everyone passed with flying colors, tons of trouble all around. She came up to me and told me "I'm so glad to know you didn't cheat", and handed me my paper with only those 5 correct answers.

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Post by meric »

MichaelGG wrote: post #124
meric wrote: post #72

Back when I was in high school, On one Friday afternoon I discovered the ethernet cables connecting the computer to the network had the same plug on both ends. I wondered what would happen if I had a cable coming out of the wall plugged back into the wall, so I pulled out the cable out of one of the computers and plugged both ends into the wall. On Monday, One of the teachers went to each class and (loudly & angrily)…

$300 fine because the network admin couldn't be bothered to run spanning tree?

I don't think we had a 'network guy' at the high school. It was just the computer teacher who was responsible for everything related to IT, so I'm guessing the school outsourced all the networking.

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Post by jchonphoenix »

Certain movie sites on the web limit the amount of viewing time you have for watching movies.

Thus, I wrote myself my very own web proxy. Every single time I run out of viewing time, I ssh into one of many university machines, run my proxy, point my browser at the proxy, and keep watching my movie. Now I have unlimited viewing time everywhere.

:)

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Post by rjurney »

makmanalp wrote: post #155
rjurney wrote: post #3

For my first experiment testing boundaries, I went round the building taping off red high five zones, put up posters outlining an official high five incentive program, and started recruiting a high five squad. The Wall Street Journal picked the story up and it worked out well for everyone. We still high five a lot. Then I stole a conference room called Battle Ship, moved into it with my big purple chair, end table an…

This is great! Are you hiring?

Yes. Aggressively. rjurney at linkedin.com

Rubyists, javscript hackers, the data obsessed, information designers... all badly needed.

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Post by natep »

Definitely not as impressive as some of the top rated on here, but I have a few stories.

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One year in college I worked for a storage company. They were short on drivers so I volunteered (having driven vans and trucks in my last job). Thing was, they needed me to be over 21 (or 25?) for their insurance. Nobody was, so I just got in the van and started driving. A few days later, they had me take their drivers test, and then I got to be a driver anyways (with the raise that went with). I got to drive around and do house calls while most of my coworkers had to move stuff into/out of dorms all day.

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Rather than write a lot of networking code to give a program remote-control abilities, we decided to install the program locally and VNC into the remote machines, and use Skype to get sound from them.

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Recently, I discovered Git and have pretty much fallen for it. My work still uses svn (mostly), so I've been using git-svn. I went to my supervisor and told him I thought we'd be better of using git (since we're trying to use svn that way anyways), and it turns out, he had a budget that needed to be used by the end of this fiscal year, which I was able to use to teach myself more of Git. That budget's used up now, so I'll have to do the rest on my own time, but he's said if I can make a compelling enough case, future projects will use git. I've also become the guy my coworkers call for help with svn, so whenever I can (without being annoying), I try to point out how git is better for X.

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Post by m-photonic »

earbitscom wrote: post #73

At my very first internet job, in 1998 or so, I was hired as a temp. They said they wanted me to find websites that would be good publishers for their content network. They said to do so by searching AltaVista for sites, and then looking to see if they had a web counter, the kind that say "You are visitor number XXX". If the counter said over 100,000 they considered that a good sized publisher and someone else would…

>I spent the next 90 days building a Rage Against the Machine fan site with my friend at home

Is it still around? ;)

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Post by deltasquare4 »

We had a filtered internet access at the consulting company I used to work for, which blocked personal mails, social networks and blogging platforms and software downloads (apparently, you need approval of the IT department to install any software on your machine). I subscribed to RSS feeds from tech blogs via Google Reader and deployed a download proxy on my website server to bypass these restrictions.

The same company wouldn't allow flash drives in any of the machines for security reasons. We had a couple of testing Mac Pros on another network where we needed to deploy our application frequently. I installed the USB mass storage drivers back into these machines to enable Flash drive access. Everything was smooth after that.

We weren't using an issue tracker for our application because the in-house tracker was total crap and less usable compared to pen and paper. We weren't permitted to install any other tracker (not even an open source one). Eventually, I took the plunge and (secretly) installed Redmine on my machine. It saved us a lot of time (and a lot of paper, too).

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Post by Mz »

rprasad wrote: post #328
stakent wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have great product idea here. Ebook - how I ... etc.

I apologize for being a wet blanket, but the vast majority of couples divorce without hiring lawyers. The numbers vary by location; in Cleveland in the mid-00's, roughly 85% of divorces did not involve lawyers. When lawyers were involved, it was always because the romance had become visceral hatred and one or both parties wanted to antagonize the/each other.

Can you provide some stats or something? I mean a link or something?

Thank you for providing some balance!

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