Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

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Post by haberdasher » Sun, May 20, 2012, 1:16 AM UTC

Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account
github.com

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Post by jasonhitchcock » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:15 AM UTC

anecdote (no facts): I ran into some GS folks at the X.Commerce conference last year in SF and they said that engineers comprised their largest employee category. They said that they have built proprietary versions of a lot of really basic software (like email clients, office suites, etc...) purely out of security concerns and the fact that they have more money than god.

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Post by fatjokes » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:16 AM UTC

Why not? It's a large corporation with many branches and technical needs, some of which are harmless to open-source. Despite its reputation, I don't think they go through their day thinking "hmm... we could open-source this, or we could go kick a puppy instead! Muahahaha!"

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Post by mcot2 » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:31 AM UTC

Any java guru think this is good stuff? Just curious. I moved on form java years ago.

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Post by jcdreads » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:36 AM UTC

fatjokes wrote: post #3

Why not? It's a large corporation with many branches and technical needs, some of which are harmless to open-source. Despite its reputation, I don't think they go through their day thinking "hmm... we could open-source this, or we could go kick a puppy instead! Muahahaha!"

Why choose?

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Post by chrisaycock » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:44 AM UTC

From their FAQ:

  Why is Goldman Sachs open-sourcing GS Collections?

- We believe that GS Collections offers a significant advantage over existing solutions. We hope others will benefit from it.

- We believe in the power of the technical community to help improve GS Collections.

- Technology is a huge part of what we do at Goldman Sachs. GS Collections exemplifies our commitment to technology.

- We use open source software in many of our operations. We have benefited from the work of others and we'd like to give something back.

  Does Goldman Sachs use GS Collections?

- Yes, we use GS Collections in many of our internal applications.

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Post by DodgyEggplant » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

Ahh, it's Henry Blodget fault. He argued that Goldman lost the FB IPO partly because the other underwrites were semi geeks investment bankers, http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-goldman-sachs-...

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Post by edwinnathaniel » Sun, May 20, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

mcot2 wrote: post #4

Any java guru think this is good stuff? Just curious. I moved on form java years ago.

Took a quick look, GS Collection seems to be a similar library like Google Guava; a nice functional library helper to perform operation against Java collection.

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Post by jlarocco » Sun, May 20, 2012, 3:00 AM UTC

  ...
  import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Comparators;
  import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Functions;
  import com.gs.collections.impl.block.procedure.CollectionAddProcedure;
  import com.gs.collections.impl.collection.mutable.AbstractCollectionAdapter;
  ...

Gees, I feel sorry for people still stuck using Java.

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Post by koko775 » Sun, May 20, 2012, 3:08 AM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #9

... import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Comparators; import com.gs.collections.impl.block.factory.Functions; import com.gs.collections.impl.block.procedure.CollectionAddProcedure; import com.gs.collections.impl.collection.mutable.AbstractCollectionAdapter; ... Gees, I feel sorry for people still stuck using Java.

Why? It's pretty good, all things considered.