And the grift starts appearing in the daylight after the election... Team Romney dropped $134 million on firms tied to campaign advisers. Obama? 5.8 mill.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-campaign-payday-20121027,0,6084625.story> -- Bruce Johnson UA College of Pharmacy On Nov 9, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
