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I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question. That said, I'm very impressed by the congre

by axaxs 7y ago

I feel like this is blindly upvoted. The video is underwhelming, and doesn't come close to answering the question. That said, I'm very impressed by the congressman in the video, as it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Wikipedia doesn't mention much about programming in his bio...

Areading314 7y ago
Looks like he comes from an NSA background. Have to say, I'm very heartened to see someone in congress ask such detailed technical questions about cybersecurity issues.
amerine 7y ago
Same. They’re grasp of the ecosystem and the involved bits of tech is exactly what more representatives needs to grasp.
protomyth 7y ago
The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you". I do like the basics of his questions "who is committing code to Libra" and "why are using nightly build of Rust". I get the feeling he is not happy with it given his mention of "not how we usually did releases in the DOD" and pointing out the non-US coder. It will be interesting to see the technical response and his response to that.
- MrMorden 7y ago
  Of course Rust is international. Windows is international; Linux is international; VMS might possibly not be international. You'd think DoD would be buying Talos systems as fast as Raptor could spit them out, given all the talk about wanting things to be made in the USA, but even those will likely have parts from dozens of countries. I don't want to knock Rep. Riggleman too hard, since knowing what Github is (let alone how to use it) puts him in the top one or two percent of Congress; but DoD is by no means a paragon of software development practice. It cares far too much about compliance for the sake of compliance and far too little about whether that compliance enables business objectives such as security or reliability. (And waivers are easy to obtain when compliance makes things better, but difficult when compliance makes things worse.)
  - epoch_100 7y ago
    In the video, Rep. Riggleman doesn't find issue with Rust being international; he instead notes that one of the primary committers to _Libra Core_ (not Rust) is Nigerian. I had a similar response to yours when I read the top-level comment, but watching the video it's clear that his issue is very much _not_ with Rust having an international development team.
    - protomyth 7y ago
      His issue is Libra having a international development (or more specifically random international development), and his issue with Rust is using the nightly builds instead of a stable release.

by axaxs 7y ago

Areading314 7y ago

Looks like he comes from an NSA background. Have to say, I'm very heartened to see someone in congress ask such detailed technical questions about cybersecurity issues.

amerine 7y ago

Same. They’re grasp of the ecosystem and the involved bits of tech is exactly what more representatives needs to grasp.

protomyth 7y ago

The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you". I do like the basics of his questions "who is committing code to Libra" and "why are using nightly build of Rust". I get the feeling he is not happy with it given his mention of "not how we usually did releases in the DOD" and pointing out the non-US coder. It will be interesting to see the technical response and his response to that.

MrMorden 7y ago
Of course Rust is international. Windows is international; Linux is international; VMS might possibly not be international. You'd think DoD would be buying Talos systems as fast as Raptor could spit them out, given all the talk about wanting things to be made in the USA, but even those will likely have parts from dozens of countries. I don't want to knock Rep. Riggleman too hard, since knowing what Github is (let alone how to use it) puts him in the top one or two percent of Congress; but DoD is by no means a paragon of software development practice. It cares far too much about compliance for the sake of compliance and far too little about whether that compliance enables business objectives such as security or reliability. (And waivers are easy to obtain when compliance makes things better, but difficult when compliance makes things worse.)
- epoch_100 7y ago
  In the video, Rep. Riggleman doesn't find issue with Rust being international; he instead notes that one of the primary committers to _Libra Core_ (not Rust) is Nigerian. I had a similar response to yours when I read the top-level comment, but watching the video it's clear that his issue is very much _not_ with Rust having an international development team.
  - protomyth 7y ago
    His issue is Libra having a international development (or more specifically random international development), and his issue with Rust is using the nightly builds instead of a stable release.