That's all well and good, but you need to raise that with your IT department if it is an inconvenience rather than complaining to us.
It seems odd that github would be blocked especially given HN isn't unless your company has some sort of pathological fear of accidental IP dilution, so perhaps it is a mistake that will be quickly corrected once pointed out?
my coworker's previous employer blocked all code-sharing and question-and-answer sites for programmers because of a pathological fear of accidental IP dilution. it's a real thing.
That it is, although what they end up doing is making people work on their work machine as well as their cellphone. Source: me, working for a defense contractor with the same insane rules, but no "hand in your phone" rules on entry.
What’s wrong with him asking for assistance? You could’ve just ignored his comment lol, no need to be so rude. Im dissappointed anyone upvotes you. This is bad behavior, shouldn’t be promoted.
I didn't read it as a request for assistance, more a complaint that we weren't doing enough to assist by providing a link that would work in the specific circumstance that the poster finds themselves in (that we could not have known about ahead of time even if it was something we should be responsible for fixing or working around).
And I did offer assistance by suggesting the only practical way forward (unless you count HN banning github links because some of its readers can't access them as a practical way forward!): discussing the matter with the IT department. Especially as it _could_ be a mistake (externally sourced block lists being overly aggressive unbeknownst to them?) rather than a deliberate action. And if it is a deliberate action the poster may need to investigate what policy the block is part of to make sure they are not accidentally breaching it by other actions.
> no need to be so rude.
I used the exact same tone in my reply as I was replying to. A little passive-aggressive maybe, but if I was rude then so was what I replied to. I know two wrongs don't make a right, but then again neither does the first one on its own so I've not made the situation any worse.
It seems odd that github would be blocked especially given HN isn't unless your company has some sort of pathological fear of accidental IP dilution, so perhaps it is a mistake that will be quickly corrected once pointed out?