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A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly
christo writes "In what appears to be a first, the US House of Representatives now has a Congressman with coding skills.
Democratic Representative Bill Foster won a special election this past Saturday in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. Foster is a physicist who worked at Fermilab for 22 years designing data analysis software for the lab's high energy particle collision detector. In an interview with CNET today, Foster's campaign manager confirmed that the Congressman can write assembly, Fortran and Visual Basic. Will having a tech-savvy congressman change the game at all? Can we expect more rational tech-policy? Already on his first day, Foster provided a tie-breaking vote to pass a major ethics reform bill."
Now maybe he can hack into the C-Span system so that, when he gives a speech before the House, it shows him as "Bill Foster (D-1337)".
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8086? MIPS? ARM? Would be nice to know.
What kind of half breed freak is this guy?
... he's a Visual Basic guy.
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Not only can he code assembly, he has his own private store of antimatter.
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If he drafts it in assembly it'll probably be more readable than normal legislation.
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I know that not everyone is Einstein smart, but it does not take a rocket scientist to know that mixing assembler in the house will cause divide by zero errors.
He'll have to learn the difference between NOP and Abstain
Nowhere in the "xxx programming for dummies" books does it talk about kissing babies.
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we'll be seeing computed gotos written into laws. In other words, same-old, same-old.
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vi or emacs?
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But does he know LOLCAT?
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IF U.BE_TAKIN(MAH BUCKET)
GIV_MEH_BAK(MAH_BUCKET)
GOTO JAYL
IF U.KILL(MY_MANS O MY_WOMANS)
GOTO LECRIC_CHARE
GIV_MEH(ALL_U_MONEY *
KTHXBYE
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Does he run Linux? Will he blend?
The article title reminds me of an exhange that occured in a meeting. We were co-developing a project with a customer and one of the customer's programmers was an old-time assembly programmer who never quite got the hang of high-level languages like C++. We were discussing some bug that was found in some of his unreadable code after a week or so of investigation.
My manager: It appears that this issue was found in some code that Bob wrote.
Their manager: But Bob's a great programmer. He can even knows how to code in assembly.
My manager: Great, can you have him stop coding like it's assembly?
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Maybe it's the perfect opportunity to get all legislation into CVS.
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That's nothing. The man was a freaking genius if rumors are true. Supposedly, he could write in Latin with one hand and in Ancient Greek in the other at the same time. Of course, that could just be legendary.
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Assembler coding? About the only difference in Congress that would make over your average Congress critter is when the lobbyists click their fingers and tell him to jump, he'll ask "how far", not "how high."
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Eeek! Conditional legislation? With all due respect, things are muddy enough as it is!
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