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"Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential electi
by woodchuck64 14y ago
"Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election."
I hope this puts the last nail in the coffin holding the remains of the hope that Romney would have been a better business and technical strategist for America than Obama.
- viscanti 14y agoBecause no good business/technical strategist has ever overseen a complex software project that had a bug in it?
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoThe article doesn't really describe a "bug" so much as a complete lack of planning, ignoring warning signs, brushing off questions and constructive criticisms, and in general demonstrates the exact wrong way to implement any system. No, no good strategist would ever release a "big data" system without stress testing it. You'd be hard pressed to find a job doing stuff like that.
- roguecoder 14y agoThat was an unmitigated disaster, possibly contributing to the total destruction of their employer? Well, I don't label people based on single data points; they might be very nice people and perfectly competent. But I certainly wouldn't hire them after this.
- marze 14y agoThe presidential election is a game, quite complicated, and the winner gets to be president. Voters and voting is just one aspect of the game. Romney lost this match, probably partly due to an IT and analysis advantage the Obama team had.
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- ams6110 14y agoRomney himself has a considerable track record of success in the private sector. Hard to think he would know less about what works than Obama, who has never worked there.