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Rebutting Xkcd’s Voting Software Comic (medium.com/cm30)
1 point by CM30 on April 6, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I'm possibly missing something but i can't see an actual rebuttal to the comic ?

Perhaps it's my reading of the comic. I'm seeing a comment about software engineering as a profession in relation to other similar "engineering" fields, specifically about them being less mature/regulated/proffesional. Then a reference to how software running voting machines is terrifying, the article then goes on to deatil why that's the case.

The details of why e-voting is hard are interesting and raise some good points, but it's in no way addressing the "claims" in the comic.


So, what do software developers say about Boeing 737 MAX software? I mean I think "That's terrifying!" might be an initial response.




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