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The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!
Heck, I remember a Republican candidate who was amazed by the scanner at the supermarket checkout.
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Why do you choose to throw out an insult at Windows? Is there anything about this story that points to Windows being at fault? How about you think before you flame next time, okay?
Looks like someone has a bit of an emotional investment on a tool, eh?
Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson... To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. This sounds like a lot of failed IT projects in large corporations -- dreamed up by upper management types who don't know anything about tech, then farmed out to consultants and tech…
A cynic would say that this is just the software consulting version of what management consultants like Romney do.
On one hand, management consultants are typically working with the executives of a company, and usually one of those executives will have been a former consultant (the executive boardrooms of companies are filled with them). Not to mention that both consultants and executives usually have the same set of "skills."
On the other hand, one former management consultant I spoke to told me that executives would often hire consultants to tell them what they already knew. The only purpose of bringing the consultants on-board was so that their recommendations would serve as political validation in case they had to explain their decision (i.e. if they failed).
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Using Windows was a mistake, that's for sure. Good thing for Democrats they didn't know about the open source ushahidi platform.
You can fail on any platform with bad implementation and/or bad management and/or bad planning. That's the lesson here. (and at Twitter when they fail whaled for months on end with Rails - it wasn't Rails fault - it was the application of Rails in too high a volume deployment)
Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson... To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. This sounds like a lot of failed IT projects in large corporations -- dreamed up by upper management types who don't know anything about tech, then farmed out to consultants and tech…
Mitt Romney’s campaign handed out more than $200,000
in bonuses last month to senior staffers, according
to new disclosure records filed Thursday.
Richard Beeson, Romney’s national political director,
received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31 in addition to his
salary, according to records filed with the Federal
Election Commission.
When I first heard about this, I remarked to a friend "what the hell are they doing giving out bonuses? The bonus should be that your candidate gets elected!"
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A cynic would say that this is just the software consulting version of what management consultants like Romney do.
Yes and no. On one hand, management consultants are typically working with the executives of a company, and usually one of those executives will have been a former consultant (the executive boardrooms of companies are filled with them). Not to mention that both consultants and executives usually have the same set of "skills." On the other hand, one former management consultant I spoke to told me that executives would…
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Indeed. Particularly in contract to the Obama machine, which was built by passionate technologies motivated mostly to help Obama win, not make money.
Interestingly, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said they built something similar in 2008, and it crashed too. http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/messina-obama-won-on-the-...
http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world...
Sounds like they spent quite a bit of time and money on that. Nice article, by the way, though it's obviously a bit of a puff piece.
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This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
I disagree. His point is very valid.
wikipedia: Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense
Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson... To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. This sounds like a lot of failed IT projects in large corporations -- dreamed up by upper management types who don't know anything about tech, then farmed out to consultants and tech…
And yet, despite this disaster, Mitt Romney’s campaign handed out more than $200,000 in bonuses last month to senior staffers, according to new disclosure records filed Thursday. Richard Beeson, Romney’s national political director, received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31 in addition to his salary, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012…