It’d be great to learn about other code by prominent politicians.
Off the top of my head, I only recall one other example: COBOL on Wheelchair [0], a web micro-framework for GNU COBOL, written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a Polish MP.
Off the top of my head, I only recall one other example: COBOL on Wheelchair [0], a web micro-framework for GNU COBOL, written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a Polish MP.
https://techblog.bozho.net/i-have-been-appointed-as-e-govern...
is a top Stack Overflow contributor:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/203907/bozho
as well as a moderately active HN user:
Lets remember his answer on stackexchange regarding how many Greeks pay high taxes vs Greek owners of Porshe Cayennes, when he not recognized and was asked for references for his figures: "Hi, can you provider references for your figures? - Skiiv The figures come directly from SQL queries I executed on the General Secreteriat for Information Systems database.... – Diomidis Spinellis" https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/6883
He got an ICPC bronze medal in 2001, and before getting into politics, he was at an IT company for about 10 years, working his way up from a software engineer to the CEO. The company now has 9k employees and $200M revenue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Volkov_(politician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Corruption_Foundation
Scroll down to page 150: "Anhang A1: Das Programm FPROJ". Google translate tells me that "Anhang" means "Appendix" in German. I will not soon forget the term "das programm".
I must admit: You nerd sniped me good on this one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
https://metacpan.org/author/AUDREYT
(And of course she is the initiator of the PUGS Perl 6 implementation project)
He understood how the IT services industry worked - from his time on the inside of it at IBM - and saw an opportunity. He likely had a good salesman's grasp of the structure of the industry technologically (what was selling, what wasn't; who dominated what segments; what companies were spending on various segments). He got started from spotting a market inefficiency that IBM wasn't interested in pursuing (leasing unused compute time), so Perot formed EDS and the rest is history.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...
* First in his Naval Academy class
* PhD from Caltech
* Reached flag rank
After leaving office because of the Iran-Contra scandal (during which Poindexter reportedly set up a secret communications channel on the IBM PROFS system the NSC used), Poindexter became a software developer!
Edit: Great HN username!
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky describes in some detail the job position of programmer archaeologist (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_archaeology>). Set thousands of years in the future, such archaeologists search archives going back to the early days of Unix for useful code.
2. Current government openly admitted to spying on the opposition and introduced an anti-abortion law that already killed a couple women, as hospitals decide to play it safe and wait until the fetus dies. And they dismantled the separation of powers. And probably already stole hundreds of millions of dollars, with independent investigations confirming at least tens. Our politics are so messed up that absolutely no one will bat an eye at a 7 years old non-PC joke.
When I was a child in the United States, Lech Wałęsa regularly celebrated as a hero by helping to lead Poland into democracy as head of the trade union Solidarity/Solidarność. I always felt he was "Une Hacker Originale" by forming a worker's union in a (nominally) Communist state! It was like they back-doored a democratic institution into a unfree state. Amazing stuff to read about.
nah he was just a puppet/poster boy for a good story. The real reason why communism fail in Poland were:
- coup d'etat by deep state. General Kiszczak did an excellent job. System has changed without a bloody revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Kiszczak - communism was inefficient. Trading barier made it worse. As a result Soviet Union was weak and didn't have enough influence to keep the system stable. - Kissinger managed to convince China to counter Soviet Union. In 1969 they had to throw and enormous resources at the border.
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
I don't happen to think the "wheelchair" is offensive here, you can tell yourself it's ageist and ableist if you need to, but the punchline is clearly at COBOL's expense.