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Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round

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Re: Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round

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A lot of the comments here seem to be oblivious to the details of the original indictment: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/021110aleyn... It pretty explicitly details how the "backup" program he wrote had flags to select what to copy and some of those flags specifically copied GS option pricing code that he had never worked on.

That's not what I see when I read it. I see that he wrote a backup script that could backup two distinct groups of files depending on what argument he passed on the command-line. While the indictment mentions that some of the files included stuff he didn't work on, it doesn't say he set flags specifically to grab stuff he hadn't worked on. Only that it was getting swept up as part of a larger backup operation. It als…

It was cloudbees, pre-acquisition by CollabNet. They hosted the subversion repository and provided file space, paid for by his credit card.

Re: Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round

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Very dry humor!

Not humour, fact. You think billions of dollars a day in transactions are going to be entrusted to a single person writing code? Every single line, algorithm, and bracket is going to be examined by a dozen people over and over. When a single bug can do a billion dollars in damage or bankrupt you, nothing is left to chance...

I think his reference was to the debacle at Knight, where what that level of rigor did NOT happen. Or, it happened, but was insufficient.
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