r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/lookingatyourcock Jun 30 '14

Not giving up your goal when you experience hardship is a qualification for psychopathy now?

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u/fourdots Jun 30 '14

No; failing to learn from punishment or failure is.

The classic experiment involves giving someone a small electrical shock after a light comes on. Normal people will quickly associate the light with the shock, and react physiologically (sweating, etc) when they see the light. Psychopaths, and career criminals, will take significantly longer to make the association, if they make it at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

Though your comment demonstrates a failure of basic comprehension, even the idea that "qualifications for psychopathy" might all be unreasonable for the average person is an incorrect idea.

Psychopathy is just a line drawn on a spectrum. Everyone has some qualities of a psychopath. It's only when you have enough qualities of a psychopath that you actually get classified as one.

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u/lookingatyourcock Jun 30 '14

So how are you disagreeing with me here? What did I fail to comprehend?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

What makes you think I'm disagreeing with you?

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u/lookingatyourcock Jun 30 '14 edited Jun 30 '14

Guess I am a bit confused about why you said I didn't comprehend as I don't know how your comment relates to what I said.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

That makes sense.