Original posted on January 7, 2015 by Anoop Dixith: http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2015/01/07/govt-bans-stackoverflow-com-developer-takes-6-hours-to-swap-2-variables/ (see? I knew it would)
Bangalore based software developer Rossell Bhargav, who works for HashInclude Technologies, had the worst day of his career after he found out that the company’s ISP provider had banned StackOverflow.com (a question and answer site for programmers) due to “regulations from the competent authority” (read Department of Telecom).
“I wanted to swap two variables”, said Bhargav, “but man it turned to be a daunting task! I’m not kidding, I’m a senior software developer here but we are all so accustomed to StackOverflow that we hardly write code without copy-pasting snippets from there. But I didn’t know what to do when I found that it was blocked!”
“I thought I’ll ask my overseas friends who could open StackOverflow from there and let me know the code