A plug for everyone in this thread to read `Recoding America` by Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code For America. Extremely good book which goes into detail about

A plug for everyone in this thread to read `Recoding America` by Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code For America. Extremely good book which goes into detail about why software is such a crapshow in government... there are many more reasons than "bad software engineers", and they're all fascinating.