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A comment on Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"?.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by niqolas on Thursday April 23, 2009 @10:08AM (#575616)
The admins at work blocked HN simply because it had the word "hacker" in its name.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by andyking on Thursday April 23, 2009 @12:10PM (#575903)
Be grateful that you don't want to look up the Scunthorpe United results.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by dagobart on Thursday April 23, 2009 @10:36AM (#575673)
Yeah, I know what you mean. Every time I get in a "serious business" environment and fall for mentioning F/LOSS, I get the strange looks (and obviously freak out the admin). Better not even to mention the word "hacker" at all.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by jrockway on Thursday April 23, 2009 @02:53PM (#576263)
Best to let the "serious businesses" kill themselves off by ignoring free software and instead spending millions of dollars on inferior-quality products and services.
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