A review by marct22
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

3.0

Parts of this book I really liked, but the chapters about a Russian coder who stole code was just plain bad. As a software configuration engineer/consultant whose worked with many companies, worked in many languages and platforms, Lewis's ignorance about unix, open source, and coding in general really stood out, and I think some of the folks who he talked to snowed him on items like the bash shell, passwords, and open source. Had I been the author, I would have dropped that whole thread, it contributed nothing to the story, and honestly, made me kinda doubt how well he understood things because some of that is quite simple to verify, and to those mistakes and errors make it in, well, hmmm... I should really rate the book a 2 star, but I did like the other chapters that didn't involve the source code theft.