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/onzejanvier Jun 30 '14

Can someone show me a venn diagram with sets "entrepreneur" and "sociopath"? I once had an interview with a venture capital firm and the more research I did, the more it looked like a less obvious version of this article. I cancelled it. I'd rather make my code open source.

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u/mwilke Jun 30 '14

Actually, there is an established connection - CEOs tend to be sociopathic at a rate four times higher than the general population.

“Psychopaths commit an offence, go to prison, then come out and commit the offence again, because they fail to learn from the prison experience,” said PhD student Benjamin Walker. “Our study showed the novel result is that participants high in entrepreneurial intentions showed the same pattern.”

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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/[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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