{"id":1398,"date":"2007-05-09T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T08:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/09\/dorky-poll-presidential-questi\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T08:18:48","slug":"dorky-poll-presidential-questi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/09\/dorky-poll-presidential-questi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Presidential Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was expounding on my dislike of the routine questions being asked of Wesley Clark last night (see previous post) to a colleague from Math, who suggested “Which do you prefer, C or Fortran? And if you use Fortran, do you declare all your variables?” as an alternative to boring policy questions that produce nothing but rehearsed answers. Clearly, this is a niche that needs to be explored, thus today’s Dorky Poll:<\/p>\n

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What great geek controversy should Presidential candidates be asked about?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because, really, how could you consider voting for a man (or woman) without knowing his (or her) position on the C vs. Fortran question?<\/p>\n

Other topics that come to mind are things like “String Theory or Loop Quantum Gravity?” and “Copenhagen Interpretation or Many-Worlds?,” to say nothing of “Emacs vs. vi?”<\/p>\n

So what geeky question would you like to see asked of Presidential aspirants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was expounding on my dislike of the routine questions being asked of Wesley Clark last night (see previous post) to a colleague from Math, who suggested “Which do you prefer, C or Fortran? And if you use Fortran, do you declare all your variables?” as an alternative to boring policy questions that produce nothing… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Presidential Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}