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Comment by randyrand | Hacker News Reader

That was fast. I'm actually impressed.

Edit: not from a technological aspect. They probably had the site ready to go already. But from a human coordination standpoint.

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I assume they had it ready to go and live and putting it in to production was simply a matter of registering the domain and pointing the DNS at the server hosting this.

Probably because you didn't read the text. There's literally no content here, even less than he had on his campaign website. You're "impressed" with some web geek throwing together a demo site. This election in a nutshell.

No. Technologically it's not all that impressive, it's the human element that is. They moved on this really quickly. It's surprising the coordination to get this done can be done in a day.

Probably half the commenters on this very thread (not me, I don't do web stuff) could have produced a site as good or better in half the time. Are you serious?

Like I said, it's not the technological aspect that is impressive. It's he human aspect. How quickly they coordinated this.

Gah, WHAT human aspect? All this is is a mediocre distillation of junk said on the campaign page. There's no new content. Nothing. You're seriously cheering on an organization that can write a boring summarization of some text in 36 hours (which they didn't, as mentioned the cert is more than a week old).

I can handle fact that he was elected, I guess. But this kind of celebration of mediocrity by his "supporters" who really should know better is just too much.

You would expect this kind of thing to be largely pre-prepared. Most of the content falls out from the campaign documents and the actual elements of the site would exist regardless of president (job portal etc.)

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