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He doesn't place braces around single statement conditional/loop bodies. Would not vote for him. While pretty unexpected from a politician, he did graduate in M
by tgv 5y ago
He doesn't place braces around single statement conditional/loop bodies. Would not vote for him. While pretty unexpected from a politician, he did graduate in Maths & CS at Trinity College. Senior Wrangler, no less.
- WithinReason 5y agoI would not vote for him because the last for loop has unnecessary braces
- cm2187 5y agoAnd is he using space or tabs?
- WithinReason 5y agoIt seems to be spaces so I wouldn't try to actively sabotage his campaign
- baybal2 5y agoHe is a very boring PM, and lacking ambition of his father. Singapore under him is in "maintenance only mode."
- dskloet 5y agoIs that a bad thing?
- baybal2 5y agoI would say it's a good thing when the size of ambitions matches the size of ones mouth. He certainly inherited the size of the mouth of his father, and tried to imitate his tirades heavily 12 years ago when I lived there, but so far nothing really came out of it. Sing in last 12 years: losing vestiges of its industry, and getting more, and more reliant on mainland money.
- throwaway4good 5y agoWhat would be an alternative path for Singapore look like?
- baybal2 5y agoNot sure what it will look like, it's what leaders are for. I would say 1 thing: Singapore is probably the only country in the world which actively tries to reduce population of millionaires, and rich 6 digit salary making expats on the populist notion that this tiny population which pays for itself n-fold in taxes is "stealing Singaporean jobs."
- halgir 5y agoIs that necessarily a bad thing? Admitting I don't know much about Singapore.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>He is a very boring PM We could do with boring in the UK right now.
- thot_experiment 5y agoIf it's good enough for K&R it's good enough for me. And yes, I do sleep with my copy of "The C Programming Language" (Second Edition) under my pillow. ;)
- StreamBright 5y ago> While pretty unexpected from a politician I would say in the past this was unexpected. We cannot build a better future with bureaucrats and lawyers as it was proven several times. I am hoping that going forward means we have more practical politicians who actually have understanding of different domains outside of law and politics.
- shafyy 5y agoAlso, Angela Merkel, while not a computer scientist, was a physicist and quantum chemist.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoMargaret Thatcher was also a chemist.
- azalemeth 5y agoSenior Wrangler is genuinely impressive. I have it on good authority that Boris Johnson was viva'd at the end of his classics degree – implying he was on the first/2:1 boundary – and graduated with a 2:1.
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