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A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly

Posted by Zonk on from the at-least-its-not-haskell dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Now maybe... by calebt3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everybody who recognizes it would read it as 'Delete'

  2. Re:thats great and all.. by Samah · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you mean LOLCODE

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  3. Approval voting by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We didn't know that a Diebold machine could register 68% for one candidate and 100% for another," said their spokesman. Sure it can. Replace the radio buttons on a ballot with checkboxes and you have approval voting. For one candidate, 68 percent of voters gave thumbs up and 32 percent thumbs down. For another candidate, 100 percent gave thumbs up. If more people approve of another than one, another takes office. Do you need another example?