Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job

Link to the actual programmer's account of the story: <a href="http://www.nucalc.com/Story/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nucalc.com/Story/</a><p>and a Google Tech Talk video of Avitzur telling his story: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567#" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567...</a>

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

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

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.

Here's This American Life telling the story (very, very entertaining): <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go?act=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/s...</a>

A link for downloading the Graphing Calculator program <a href="http://www.pacifict.com/FreeStuff.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pacifict.com/FreeStuff.html</a>

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

There's something to think about comparing this story to the entrepreneur who sneaked into AOL:<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-squatted-at-aol" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tire...</a>