Open-Source Developer and Manager David Recordon Named White House Director of Technology (zdnet.com) 51
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: President-elect Joe Biden's transition team announced that David Recordon, one of OpenId and oAuth's developers, has been named the White House Director of Technology. Recordon most recently was the VP of infrastructure and security at the non-profit Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation. Before that, Recordon was Facebook's engineer director. There, he had led Facebook's open-source initiatives and projects. Among other programs, this included Phabricator, a suite of code review web apps, which Facebook used for its own development. He also led efforts on Cassandra, the Apache open-source distributed database management system; HipHop, a PHP to C++ source code translator; and Apache Thrift, a software framework, for scalable cross-language services development. In short, he's both a programmer and manager who knows open-source from the inside out.
Recordon learned to program at a public elementary school. According to the Biden-Harris transition team, he's spent his almost two-decade career working at the intersection of technology, security, open-source software, public service, and philanthropy. Looking forward to the challenges Recordon faces in his new position, he wrote on LinkedIn: "The pandemic and ongoing cybersecurity attacks present new challenges for the entire Executive Office of the President, but ones I know that these teams can conquer in a safe and secure manner together." The report notes that Recordon served as the first Director of White House Information Technology during President Barack Obama's term of office, working on IT modernization and cybersecurity issues. He's also served as the Biden-Harris transition team's deputy CTO.
Recordon learned to program at a public elementary school. According to the Biden-Harris transition team, he's spent his almost two-decade career working at the intersection of technology, security, open-source software, public service, and philanthropy. Looking forward to the challenges Recordon faces in his new position, he wrote on LinkedIn: "The pandemic and ongoing cybersecurity attacks present new challenges for the entire Executive Office of the President, but ones I know that these teams can conquer in a safe and secure manner together." The report notes that Recordon served as the first Director of White House Information Technology during President Barack Obama's term of office, working on IT modernization and cybersecurity issues. He's also served as the Biden-Harris transition team's deputy CTO.
In case you're wondering where everybody is .. (Score:2)
... Turn on the TV news.
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... Turn on the TV news.
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Oh, you are just too foreign to American customs. We always celebrate the election of a new President by rioting and storming the Capitol.
It's just good, clean, Christian, wholesome fun!
That poor joke said, it's really just sad and shameful to see this.
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That poor joke said, it's really just sad and shameful to see this.
Yup. We've become the shithole country the con artist talked about. On his watch.
What scares me (Score:3)
So, the whole world is watching America melt down. You have no place lecturing anyone on democracy anymore. Trump has destroyed that, just as he has tried to destroy all the international institutions America has helped build since WW2. They will be rebuilt, with or without the US of course. I'm expecting Biden to make America relevant to the world again. Will be nice to have a normal adult in charge.
What is more concerning however, is this; What if the Retrumplicans (I'll refrain from any allusion to
Re:What scares me (Score:4, Insightful)
The Constitution will prevail. The reality is that not as many Republican lawmakers were as pro-Trump as they felt they had to be. Some, like Tom Cruz, are still under the delusion that the Trump faction of the GOP is a lion they can tame, but for the most part I think the party itself is just trying to hold its breath until January 20th. What happens after that? Probably some more unrest. Hotheads always get a good deal of attention, but the demographic shift which has been happening since at least 2008 is still moving away from these kinds of sentiments. Churches of all sorts, but in particular Evangelical churches, are losing membership, and that is where the bulk of Trump's support comes.
I don't think many conservative voters will ever be happy that Biden won, but I think the lessons of last November and of yesterday's Georgia Senate elections are pretty clear. Yes, Trump had some hardcore core supporters, but many of his other supporters will begin melting away. The US has seen unrest before, and it always feels like doomsday in the midst of it. But if the US could survive its violent birth, the Civil War, the unrest of the Depression, the unrest of Civil Rights and Vietnam protests in the 1960s, then it can survive even a bunch of self-declared militias. Those arrested by police for breaking into the Capitol Building will find an unfriendly Attorney General ready to mete out justice.
One hopes that at least some Republicans have been scared straight, and realize that words have consequences. You can enter fierce partisan debates with the opposing party, indeed that has been the American way even since the Continental Congress tried to reach unanimity on the Declaration of Independence, but calling for armed partisans to show up in the Capitol and try to overthrow the elected house of the people, no one is going to back that. Except for the current President, who, I doubt, really cares about consequences at all, and seems to get off on stirring the pot. But since he's decided he wants to be a rival to Rupert Murdoch, I doubt even that career step will be successful. Besides, he'll be too busy in a New York court room for the next while to be launching an insurgency.
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I saw Moped Jesus break a window and climb into the Capitol Building.
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The conflation of Ted Cruz [google.com] with Tom Cruise [google.com] is...just...priceless - something really special.
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What's really sad is that we're talking a few hundred idiots doing this. Everything I've seen talks about "hundreds" invading the Capital Building. Not thousands or tens of thousands.
So Trump can't even muster a decent number of fanatic followers (probably because everyone is talking about NFL standings now, and not caring a hill of beans about the election (which is a done deal by this point)).
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What's really sad is that we're talking a few hundred idiots doing this. Everything I've seen talks about "hundreds" invading the Capital Building. Not thousands or tens of thousands.
So Trump can't even muster a decent number of fanatic followers (probably because everyone is talking about NFL standings now, and not caring a hill of beans about the election (which is a done deal by this point)).
Good thing because Capitol security seemed completely unprepared for more than a couple dozen.
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The impression I'm getting is that sometime today a deal will be reached and Trump will be on his way to Argentina on some donor's private jet. Then we can all get vaccinated, and life will return to normal.
Re: In case you're wondering where everybody is .. (Score:5, Funny)
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Trump is just a dude that took advantage of people republicans and democrats decided to ignore because they're no longer useful to em.
I hope the lesson is learned, and you don't leave any large percentage of the population unheard, or the next trump will be even worse.
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You actually think that there are literally millions of fascists in the US like that? if this was the case, you would have literal factories of killing people proudly displaying "the number of dead kikes".
What you actually have is a bunch of people without jobs or future because you relied too much on megacorporations and allowed em to kill the small businesses, and those are easy pickings for the fascists, mostly using the far left stupidity as propaganda.
Bring back the small business and the fascist shit
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Some of them seemed to have no difficulties buying guns and ammo and hopping in their wannabe-monster trucks and heading to Washington DC. I'm not buying that these protesters are all disgruntled unemployed people.
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Of course not, but we're still talking about a man that won an american election, that have a bit less than half of the country still supporting him.
It's quite a good thing most of his electorate is poor, or the situation would be quite worse.
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You actually think that there are literally millions of fascists in the US like that? if this was the case, you would have literal factories of killing people proudly displaying "the number of dead kikes".
Do you think Trump does not wish, in his most feverish dreams, of the power to round up his political rivals in prisons and camps? Do you think that would not be just fine with many of his fans? Were Germans all as delusional as Hitler, or were they just happy to go along with whatever they were told...?
The world is filled with leaders like that and Trump resembles all of them mentally. The only thing that makes him different is the system just won't let him.
Thankfully.
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Yes, it would be fine with many of his fans, but you don't win elections with a few nutcases.
You need to see what is his actual mass appeal, separate it from the stupidity and cater to it.
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What laughable nonsense. The party that is the party of big business and deregulation and tax cuts is the one responsible for the rise of megacorporations - and it's also the party that these fascists are voting for.
Most of these fascists are human garbage who want a life of luxury without putting any of effort into earning those luxuries. They believe they're entitled to that life simply because of the colour of their skin, because their great-great grandparents had that life. Doesn't matter that was based
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Half of america voted for Trump, yet, you don't have literal fascist towns with "kike extermination camps".
Maybe the crushing majority of the Trump voters are just regular people like you, but that had to "swallow that annoying pill" to get something very specific.
Re: Trump's Armed Retard Insurrection (Score:2)
Impeach him so he doesnâ(TM)t try to steal the election in 2024. Although according to his own understanding of the law, if he wins in 2024, Kamala (as VP) can just not count his electoral votes.
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Omar is starting the impeachment process, according to get Twitter post.
Re: Trump's Armed Retard Insurrection (Score:2)
The constitution says such people should be impeached. Impeachment has the advantage that unlike criminal conviction he is barred from becoming president again.
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It looks like we may end up with an Enlightened(TM) corpse swinging from every lamppost. Ok, so Christmas came a bit late this year. Think I'm complaining?
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he has something to do with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. And that means he has ties to Facebook
...and Jackie Chan. Who doesn't love Jackie Chan? Particularly if there's an initiative where Jackie Chan karate-kicks Zuckerberg in the sack or something.
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Oh great, he's one of the sexist tw&ts at code.org, determined to prevent boys from learning to code.
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No national-level official is good for the people. They all serve some interest group or other, when they're not busy serving themselves.
So yeah, it'll be good for open source if whoever he's doing the bidding of has an interest helping open source.
Funky hair ! (Score:2)
https://github.com/davidrecord... [github.com]
How is this good? (Score:4, Insightful)
We have someone who worked in the inner depths of Facebook and is going to be working at some of the highest levels of the government. How in any way is this a good thing?
Re: How is this good? (Score:3)
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Would you rather have Yet Another Fortune 500 CTO with zero actual knowledge of software development?
Regardless of its faults, Facebook is an example of enterprise software that actually works, and the fact that Recordon became Engineering Director at that company aged only 23 indicates he is an extremely smart individual. FB taking him back in that same role after he finished his first stint in government shows his directorship wasn't a fluke, either. And he's spent the past 3 years working at the CZI Foun
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It's the first appointment that I've noticed that wasn't a lobbyist, party crony, or drum-beating warmonger. If only there were more of them.
PHP in the White House ?! NOOOOOO ! (Score:5, Funny)
This is serious. Come back Trump, your incitement to insurrection is forgiven.
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The objections won't get very far. The Republicans don't have the numbers, and a pretty large proportion of Republican lawmakers won't have any part in these challenges. All the protesters and terrorists managed to do is hold off the debate and the vote. If not today, then tomorrow, Joseph R. Biden will be certified by Congress as the next President of the United States. Mike Pence has made it clear now that he will fulfill his largely ceremonial duty, and I have a feeling that the hooliganism that went on
Oh look ... (Score:2)
An administration calmly going about it's business. How odd.
I hope he has fun... (Score:2)
...for the next two weeks.
And? (Score:1)
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Good, where will you be emigrating to? That Libertarian paradise of Somalia? The kleptocracy of Russia? Or maybe a front row seat to watch Britain circle the drain after Brexit?
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation (Score:1)
This would imply that Recordon is an SJW who will be seeing to it that AI is not racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, or even arachnophobic.