Obama is RESTful(idolhands.com)

127 pointsby bradgesslervor 18 Jahren48 comments

http://www.idolhands.com/personal/obama-is-restful/

15 comments

kirsevor 18 Jahren

All I know is when I try to go to Obama's homepage at work and click the link for my home state, IE7 tries to download it rather than view the page.

Clearly Obama doesn't give a crap about us average middle-class working Americans stuck in rough jobs (forced on IE instead of Firefox/Chrome) or anyone from Pennsylvania for that matter.

http://www.imagesocket.com/view/obama_pa_fail0ac.PNG

Edit: Oh wait, the satire is only legitimate when it supports Obama?

ksvor 18 Jahren

http://www.imagesocket.com/view/obama_pa_fail0ac.PNG

"Content you have requested is for mature audience only and requires age verification."

Can anyone try to explain why this picture was "mature"?

statictypevor 18 Jahren

Misconfigured mime-types is not something kids will understand.

d0minevor 18 Jahren

IMO 'fail0ac' is similar to φαλλός http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus

juanpablovor 18 Jahren

Work perfectly for me. http://imagesocket.com/view/obama111.png

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

donniefitz2vor 18 Jahren

Please don't start pimping politics here. Save it for Digg.

ntoshevvor 18 Jahren

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DanielBMarkhamvor 18 Jahren

This is story #17 on a variation of "My Candidate is more tech-friendly than yours"

The formula is simple. Whatever the board's topic, just add something about your candidate to that. Then claim it is on-topic. Everybody who doesn't like your candidate is stuck having to figure out how to respond, not wanting to get into a political discussion, yet not wanting to see the board go to hell either.

Ok. Ok. Enough already. Candidate X has technology Y. We can argue how Y is cool (or not), how X is cool (or not) or how X choosing Y demonstrates, yet again, that X is cool.

Substitute parameters and repeat ad-infinitum.

0_ovor 18 Jahren

it is not about politics,dude,don't comment before you read

bradgesslervor 18 Jahren

This is exactly what I thought. This item was meant to be a geeky satire that pokes fun at both candidates.

Call it a bit comic relief for something that is taken so seriously!

coltafevervor 18 Jahren

I definitely agree with that

thomasmallenvor 18 Jahren

One bit of code may demonstrate that Obama is wasteful, using this expensive DOM method:

  jQuery(document).pngfix()

instead of

  $("img[@src$=png]).pngfix();

Intrigue!

maxkleinvor 18 Jahren

What it proves is that Obama is trying to fix EVERYTHING, and is not selecting a specific class for fixing.

twismvor 18 Jahren

Although the article is satire, it does show the decision making process each candidate/staff took (although it might not have carried much weight, and may not actually affect the way they govern) when they were faced with the task of "I need a campaign website."

wheelsvor 18 Jahren

No, it doesn't. It shows that Obama's staff / volunteers are more tech savvy than McCain's. Anyone surprised?

The candidate's aren't sitting around picking web servers and figuring out 404 pages. Nobody that was that obsessive of a micromanager could have gotten as far as they have.

etalvor 18 Jahren

Exactly. Any fool can see that all Obama did was set up some Gentoo instances, compile Apache and PHP with the appropriate CFLAGS, and let his people do their work.

maxkleinvor 18 Jahren

The impressive part is that he did that while holding a speech. With his toes.

twismvor 18 Jahren

Sure the candidates are not picking web servers and what not, but I'm sure they had some influence by hiring the most qualified staff, who were versed in the subject at hand, who hired (or hired the staff who hired ...) the people who made the website.

netcanvor 18 Jahren

Well then it might show ability to pick the right person for the job. Or more likely, the right person to pick the right person.

Prrometheusvor 18 Jahren

I might be getting prematurely old and cranky at 25, but I am so tired of real smugness from Obama supporters that I can't laugh at faux-smugness.

DanielBMarkhamvor 18 Jahren

I'm old and cranky at 43.

It doesn't get any better.

thomasmallenvor 18 Jahren

Unbunch thy panties. And stay away from DC, you'd lose your mind here :^)

brandonkmvor 18 Jahren

One of the co-founders of facebook is the head of the obama campaign website. That article was both funny and enlightening at the same time.

byrneseyeviewvor 18 Jahren

I always thought Open Source was fairly conservative, at least in the Burkean sense. It's a decentralized set of customs, handed down from person to person without being imposed from above or overthrown from below.

nirvor 18 Jahren

Open source is like capitalism in process and communism in result.

mseebachvor 18 Jahren

It's neither. Both capitalism and communism deals specifically with the ownership of scarce goods. Software specifically isn't a scarce good.

But it's free market at its best. Both process and result.

MicahWedemeyervor 18 Jahren

Do either support microformats? Maybe there's a microformat for politics, like hLiar or hBullshit.

comatose_kidvor 18 Jahren

I think it would be great if more Voter clients supported microformats other than hApathy.

omousevor 18 Jahren

Maybe a 3rd Party candidate, oops, micro-format would be suitable for them.

bradgesslervor 18 Jahren

Looks like these guys already invented that spec, BSML, as specified in the BSDK: http://www.gdifc.com/2006/03/11/bsdk/

misterbwongvor 18 Jahren

My favorite line:

Obama is inclusive in his support for PNGs, accommodating even disadvantaged (Internet Explorer) users.

BrandonMvor 18 Jahren

Wow, exceedingly intelligent comments on this thread. (Yes, that's sarcasm.) I'm not going to complain that this is on the front page, but seriously... #1? 77 upvotes?

unexpectedvor 18 Jahren

I hope this is satire. Please tell me you're not trying estimate how good a president they'd be based on how their websites are designed.

Herringvor 18 Jahren

joke ---- whoosh ---->

          O <--- Yuo
        --|--
          |
        / \

run4yourlivesvor 18 Jahren

Holy crap, he's a centaur!

river_styxvor 18 Jahren

And Korean, apparently.

Herringvor 18 Jahren

Just messing with the OCD crew a bit :)

PieSquaredvor 18 Jahren

It's not OCD, it's CDO. And the letters are in proper alphabetical order, just like they should be.

river_styxvor 18 Jahren

I'm voting for Obama because he knows about bubble sort!

piusvor 18 Jahren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8

swombatvor 18 Jahren

Great satire has that quality that many of the people it's targeted at don't get that it's satire.

However, in this case, I think it's just a bit of light humour. Cheer up!

statictypevor 18 Jahren

Maybe thats not such a bad idea. Clearly the person I want in office is the candidate who is the brightest. Who therefore attracts the brightest people to volunteer for his campaign. And results in a sensible web site.

hm... I think CampaignWebSite will be my personal irrelevant and irresponsible metric for electing the Most Powerful Person On Earth.

Can't be any worse than the factors other people use.

JackDangervor 18 Jahren

It's an awful way to evaluate a leader but it's better than so many of the arguments we're getting from news pundits.

jrockwayvor 18 Jahren

Honestly, I'm not going to vote on a candidate based on the version of HTML their website uses. Nor do I care what web server they use, or what their 404 page looks like.

I don't think anyone else cares either.

trueboskovor 18 Jahren

No, we don't. But this article was humorous and awesome. Geez, lighten up.

jrockwayvor 18 Jahren

Yeah, it's hard to tell these days whether someone is being funny or if they are just being stupid. Usually it's the second one, especially when politics is involved :)

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

asdf333vor 18 Jahren

hilarious. thanks for the great read!

cypress-hillvor 18 Jahren

weegeevor 18 Jahren

obama is the clear choice for the future