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Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

by landonhowell on 7/2/12, 2:09 PM with 37 comments

• by nathos on 7/2/12, 2:30 PM

  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...

• by radicalbyte on 7/2/12, 2:35 PM

  1. Dig up old stories from slashdot.

  2. Write a blog post summarizing them.

  3. Post to HN / Reddit.

  4. PROFIT.

  Smart business plan.

• by brittohalloran on 7/2/12, 2:29 PM

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

• by smsm42 on 7/2/12, 6:00 PM

  Some people would have open-sourced the code and then there would be no need to sneak into Apple headquarters and lurk in the bathrooms waiting for facilities people to leave. But I guess in 1994 it might not be as natural as it is now. I wish more companies would open-source their "not quite worked out" projects instead of just burying them.

• by bryanjclark on 7/2/12, 4:36 PM

  Here's This American Life telling the story (very, very entertaining): http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/s...

• by Jacobi on 7/2/12, 2:42 PM

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

• by thematt on 7/2/12, 2:49 PM

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

• by wissler on 7/2/12, 3:55 PM

  There's something to think about comparing this story to the entrepreneur who sneaked into AOL:

  http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tire...