Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
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Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
#2My favorite part of all of this is the scare-quotes around "subversion repository"
Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
#3Of course they overstepped. They basically mugged a person of their life savings, deprived them of their liberty, and ruined his marriage over nothing of consequence.
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#4I have some recollection that it was a bunch of Erlang code, from some other article about it.
Edit: Hah, wow... ok, so it's a small world. If I'm not mistaken, this is the same Sergey Aleynikov:
https://github.com/saleyn/erlexec/commits/master
I've been interacting with him quite a bit lately regarding his erlexec code. He strikes me as a nice guy.
Edit2: Looks like he's asking for donations to help fund his defense: http://www.aleynikov.org/
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#5Programming is starting to seem like a relatively dangerous kind of work.
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#6My favorite part of all of this is the scare-quotes around "subversion repository"
Oh no! The hackers are coming with their terrible powers of "subversion"!
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#7ITT: journalists don't "get" programming.
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#8Where in the article is the actual story? Can someone please point me to the page and paragraph that contains what actually happened? What did he do?
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#9If it was a normal company you could boycott them, but how do you boycott Goldman Sachs for all they have done?
Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
#10Where in the article is the actual story? Can someone please point me to the page and paragraph that contains what actually happened? What did he do?
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