today is sucky. people are being helpless and yucky. I wanna go home.

I'm sorry msbelle. I'm not into today, either, let's boycott.

I have some helpless and panicking people too.

I told them--if you're not seeing the images in the right place, and you know where they are--copy them over, nuh? It's only a test scenario with an ad hoc architecture. I can't believe they've been spinning their wheels for hours and getting more and more asscappy and now they want a call. Copy and fucking paste, people!

From that ORCA article:

Among other issues, the system was never beta-tested or checked for functionality without going live before Election Day, two sources said. It went live that morning but was never checked for bugs or efficiencies internally.

"Hey, it worked in the unit test, who needs QA!"

Vindicates my profession, I tell you what.

Note, (for above discussion): Presidential campaign accounts (and perhaps those for Senate and House) remain "open" for 2 years so that various expenses can be paid, etc. There was no need to cut off credit cards on election day.

Oh yeah -- I wasn't saying I thought it was right or made sense, just that I could imagine the (stupid, but maybe not evil) train of thought that led to it happening.

I got a call from a local UPS lady, who said she would "ask" the driver if he could come back to my house. Are you fucking kidding me with that? Should I call the main number back to report that, since it's so ridiculous?

Well, that ORCA failure explains why the Romney people were so shocked that they lost on election day. They thought they were hitting their numbers and getting out their voters.

That is an incredible failure in the organization and running of the campaign.

even if they GOTV, there is some question regarding whether they would have one. Their models vastly underestimated Obama's voters - so much so that their GOTV would have made it closer, but probably would not have affected the final outcome.

Yeah, the ORCA thing was pushed in a marketing sense by people who lacked understanding of the technical issues. One example: they called it an "app" when it was actually a web app. As a result, many volunteers tried to find it in the Android store, which resulted in more wasted effort.

One of the things I keep seeing over and over is that they (GOP and Romney) really believed that somehow the last election was a fluke and a lot of people who voted then just weren't going to show up to vote.

Not that these people would vote for Romney but they just would not vote.

When Bain Capital owned Houghton-Mifflin, they decided to completely remake the IT department so that everything ran under SAP... And then let everyone go who had much experience with "other stuff" instead of retraining them so they'd retain the important corporate memory of what the other stuff was actually supposed to do instead of the badly ported vague idea that the SAP applications implemented.

It wasn't Romney-era Bain, but all too representative of that kind of thinking.

I understand Bain made a healthy profit when they sold an ailing HMCo the next year.