Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#1

Post by landonhowell » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:09 PM UTC

Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job
mentalfloss.com

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#2

Post by brittohalloran » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:29 PM UTC

You know you have a good company when people sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#3

Post by nathos » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

Link to the actual programmer's account of the story: http://www.nucalc.com/Story/

and a Google Tech Talk video of Avitzur telling his story: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567...

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#4

Post by radicalbyte » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:35 PM UTC

1. Dig up old stories from slashdot.

2. Write a blog post summarizing them.

3. Post to HN / Reddit.

4. PROFIT.

Smart business plan.

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#5

Post by relix » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:37 PM UTC

brittohalloran wrote: post #2

You know you have a good company when people sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore

You know you have a bad company when you fire people who would sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

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Post by iamdave » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:38 PM UTC

radicalbyte wrote: post #4

1. Dig up old stories from slashdot. 2. Write a blog post summarizing them. 3. Post to HN / Reddit. 4. PROFIT. Smart business plan.

Remove step three and you've described a good third of the bloggosphere (why did I just use that word? Somebody get me a gin and tonic, ack)

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#7

Post by Jacobi » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:42 PM UTC

A link for downloading the Graphing Calculator program http://www.pacifict.com/FreeStuff.html

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

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Post by threepointone » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:45 PM UTC

brittohalloran wrote: post #2

You know you have a good company when people sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore

And this is during the non-Jobs years!

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#9

Post by thematt » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:49 PM UTC

Would this even be possible nowadays? As soon as your badge gets disabled typically any access you have to systems gets disabled as well.

Re: Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

#10

Post by robinduckett » Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 2:55 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #6

radicalbyte wrote: post #4

1. Dig up old stories from slashdot. 2. Write a blog post summarizing them. 3. Post to HN / Reddit. 4. PROFIT. Smart business plan.

Remove step three and you've described a good third of the bloggosphere (why did I just use that word? Somebody get me a gin and tonic, ack)

Remove step one and replace with "Lookup folklore.org stories"