Sympathy, and thanks, for Harry
Reading through the programmer's notes released as part of the Hadley leak had me squirming in sympathy with the writer(s). Data that's supposed to say one thing saying another, data with no referents, measures or provenance; bad code with magical jumps to right answers hard coded right in? been there - seen all that. What bothered me, however, was how this mess got so far out of hand: one mistake piled on another, one compromise after another, and another - why didn't this guy hang his employers out to dry years ago?