@0xabad1dea I worked for Ripple, not nice people at all. I got put on a project with a young man with very strong beliefs about his ability to write computer programs who had "written" a trading backend in "C++" - really C.
(One of his beliefs, for example, was that making all variables static and global made the program run faster. Indeed, he had a lot of weird beliefs about what made programs faster, but since he refused to do any form of benchmark, I was skeptical.)
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