Oleg had found a programmer who could do the job for a million rubles, or thirty-five thousand dollars.

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Our second programmer, Josh, has quit the project entirely to take another job.

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When he found it, he quickly hacked into its corporate servers, sent a note to its CEO's unlisted e-mail address (both announcing the security breach and asking for a job) and then moved to New York to become its lead programmer.

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