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Another thing is the lack of understanding, or almost disdain of technicality when it comes to IT among politicians and high ranked officials. The tendency is p
by euske 8y ago
Another thing is the lack of understanding, or almost disdain of technicality when it comes to IT among politicians and high ranked officials. The tendency is probably common among politicians everywhere, but Japan is particularly bad as the majority of these committees members have only legal backgrounds and don't even know what HTML is (and their contempt of studying them).
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- titanix2 8y agoGive me exemple of foreign politician that know HTML please (besides Taiwan ones). We got got a lot of funding for IT related stuff here from the government.
- solarengineer 8y agoThe Singapore PM is a Haskell programmer.
- 77pt77 8y agoI don't know about Haskell, but he did program a C++ Sudoku solver https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419035
- arh68 8y agoOff the top of my head, Ted Lieu has a CS degree, so it’s likely. There are 4 congressmen total who have CS degrees [1]. Not to say a music major can’t know this stuff, too. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lieu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lieu [1] https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/we-asked-every-member-congress-computer-science-degree-about-apple-s-war https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/we-asked-eve...