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Turn on an external VPN or switch to a personal hotspot during your breaks. Hacker News could probably be considered industry related so I'm not sure casual br

• webmaven 10y ago
  > Hacker News could probably be considered industry related Depends on your industry. Anecdotally, I have had some difficulty justifying getting HN (as well as a bunch of other sites like StackOverflow) unblocked when working IT in the public sector a few years back.
  • navs 10y ago
    Was that a bureaucracy problem or did the powers that be not consider HN and SO appropriate?
    • webmaven 10y ago
      A bit of both. Both were on some screwed-up blacklist, 1st attempts to get them whitelisted ran into comprehension problems due to the words "hacker" and "stack overflow", subsequent attempts ran into difficulty that I couldn't identify a vendor associated with the sites, and only after that was I able to tackle the cultural issue of discussion/Q&A sites being important resources (it helped that both sites came up on the 1st page of results for queries that were directly relevant to tasks I had been assigned).