Well, it appears that I was largely right...liberal programmers ARE better:-)
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/11/09/more-geekenfreude/ Some good linkage there to decent techie info about the systems, but in a nutshell...The Obama team spent 18 months, using open source and Amazon cloud services to scale up their effort doing tons of stress testing; the Romney team contracted with Microsoft and a consultant, spent 7 months on it and the whole system was dependent on a single web server in the Boston HQ... Team Romney brought a Commodore64 to a supercomputer fight. -- Bruce Johnson UA College of Pharmacy On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> (note, the people in charge of Romney's website and IT stuff snagged some >>> of those $50K bonuses in August…That was money well spent!) >> >> Yes, it's not comforting to learn that they had no beta testing phase at >> all, and rolled it out like that. Arrogance or ignorance? > > This is what you get for hiring consultants to do your core business > functions…oh, wait, that was Bain's entire business plan…either that or > liberal programmers are just plain better than conservatives :-P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
