Tag: coding
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Code thieves and the people who hire them
I saw in the news that there’ve been two cases lately of programmers stealing source code on the way out the door from their employers, presumably to use at their next job. In both cases the code was for financial companies’ high-speed trading systems. Let’s acknowledge that high-speed trading systems are more complicated than, say, […]
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The Cormac McCarthy thoughtchain post
Lots of saved browser tabs accumulating (and some old mental bookmarks as well) surrounding Cormac McCarthy, who apparently wrote the book No Country for Old Men and The Road, both of which were movies as of late, though he’s been published since 1965, so it seems shallow to just highlight the stuff he’s written in […]