What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
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What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
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#2Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
Re: What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
#3Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
If, as the theory goes, the product structure mimics the organizational structure of the group that created the product - you could extend to situations like this. In which case, you would argue that until the GOP changes its (hierarchical and paternalistic) structure the tech advantage will continue.
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#4Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
It seems more likely that this was an Obama campaign advantage, rather than a Democratic party advantage.
The translation over isn't obvious. From what I've heard their internal organization was pretty fluid. That kind of thing depends on the quality of people involved, their commonality of purpose, and the organizational culture. You can't box that and roll it over to party HQ.
That said, Democrats do seem more likely to attract and motivate the kind of people you'd need for this. That's a pretty important head start.
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#5Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
It seems more likely that this was an Obama campaign advantage, rather than a Democratic party advantage. The translation over isn't obvious. From what I've heard their internal organization was pretty fluid. That kind of thing depends on the quality of people involved, their commonality of purpose, and the organizational culture. You can't box that and roll it over to party HQ. That said, Democrats do seem more like…
If you are resistent to change, it's hard to attract people who want to create change....
Re: What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
#6Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
It seems more likely that this was an Obama campaign advantage, rather than a Democratic party advantage. The translation over isn't obvious. From what I've heard their internal organization was pretty fluid. That kind of thing depends on the quality of people involved, their commonality of purpose, and the organizational culture. You can't box that and roll it over to party HQ. That said, Democrats do seem more like…
I agree pretty strongly. I read, for example, that the Obama campaign expanded the Democratic Party's voter database by something like a factor of 10.
Re: What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
#7Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
If, as the theory goes, the product structure mimics the organizational structure of the group that created the product - you could extend to situations like this. In which case, you would argue that until the GOP changes its (hierarchical and paternalistic) structure the tech advantage will continue.
The argument can go the other way as well, if your organization is not so hierarchical that it can't learn anything. Point at this episode as proof that when in direct competition, the organization that's open to multiple approaches and tests to discover what works, has a distinct advantage.
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#8Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
In the sense of "the democratic party is using technology to their advantage" or "the democratic party is moving the tech industry into their political machine"?
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#9I think that what they accomplished is amazing, but remember that their goals were very different than your typical business. Their goals were to create something in a short amount of time with a really random group of people given a fairly short lifetime. The individual projects will live on, but the whole thing was shut down at the end of the campaign.
A business is about sustainability. You are creating things that you will be maintaining and using for (hopefully) years to come. You get to be picky about who you are hiring. In that given, its not unusual that you want all of your employees to be able to work on various parts of the stack as focus changes or what not.
This isn't to discount the value in polyglot groups. Its almost an inevitability at this point. While totally possible that you could have entirely js stack in node, more likely you'll have ruby (or something) and javascript and maybe objc for iphone and java for android and maybe .Net for windows or more objc on osx or whatever.
Re: What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming
#10Like it or not, the democratic party owns technology compared to republicans today.
In the sense of "the democratic party is using technology to their advantage" or "the democratic party is moving the tech industry into their political machine"?
I'm not sure what it would mean for them to move the tech industry into their political machine. Could you clarify?