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Re:Obama is RESTful by kirse on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:26PM (#298617)
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?

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Re:Obama is RESTful by ks on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:16PM (#298682)
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"?

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Re:Obama is RESTful by statictype on Monday September 08, 2008 @10:49PM (#299041)
Misconfigured mime-types is not something kids will understand.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by d0mine on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:50PM (#298722)
IMO 'fail0ac' is similar to φαλλός http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus
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Re:Obama is RESTful by juanpablo on Monday September 08, 2008 @05:00PM (#298781)
Work perfectly for me. http://imagesocket.com/view/obama111.png
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Re:Obama is RESTful by donniefitz2 on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:51PM (#298653)
Please don't start pimping politics here. Save it for Digg.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by ntoshev on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:31PM (#299548)
From the Hacker News Guidelines:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)

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Re:Obama is RESTful by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @05:47AM (#299249)
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.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by 0_o on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:22AM (#299469)
it is not about politics,dude,don't comment before you read
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Re:Obama is RESTful by bradgessler on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:14PM (#299534)
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!

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Re:Obama is RESTful by coltafever on Monday September 08, 2008 @10:43PM (#299038)
I definitely agree with that
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Re:Obama is RESTful by thomasmallen on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:37PM (#298708)
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!
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Re:Obama is RESTful by maxklein on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:01AM (#299203)
What it proves is that Obama is trying to fix EVERYTHING, and is not selecting a specific class for fixing.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by twism on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:17PM (#298683)
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."
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Re:Obama is RESTful by wheels on Monday September 08, 2008 @07:17PM (#298903)
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.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by etal on Monday September 08, 2008 @09:42PM (#298998)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by maxklein on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:03AM (#299204)
The impressive part is that he did that while holding a speech. With his toes.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by twism on Monday September 08, 2008 @09:14PM (#298988)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by netcan on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @08:49PM (#299960)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by Prrometheus on Monday September 08, 2008 @06:32PM (#298864)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by DanielBMarkham on Monday September 08, 2008 @09:41PM (#298997)
I'm old and cranky at 43.

It doesn't get any better.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by thomasmallen on Monday September 08, 2008 @09:33PM (#298993)
Unbunch thy panties. And stay away from DC, you'd lose your mind here :^)
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Re:Obama is RESTful by brandonkm on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:47PM (#298720)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by byrneseyeview on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:42PM (#298637)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by nir on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:41AM (#299105)
Open source is like capitalism in process and communism in result.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by mseebach on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @03:51AM (#299196)
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.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by MicahWedemeyer on Monday September 08, 2008 @01:56PM (#298582)
Do either support microformats? Maybe there's a microformat for politics, like hLiar or hBullshit.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by comatose_kid on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:14PM (#298602)
I think it would be great if more Voter clients supported microformats other than hApathy.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by omouse on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:57PM (#298729)
Maybe a 3rd Party candidate, oops, micro-format would be suitable for them.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by bradgessler on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:14PM (#298601)
Looks like these guys already invented that spec, BSML, as specified in the BSDK: http://www.gdifc.com/2006/03/11/bsdk/
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Re:Obama is RESTful by misterbwong on Monday September 08, 2008 @05:34PM (#298811)
My favorite line:

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

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Re:Obama is RESTful by BrandonM on Monday September 08, 2008 @10:59PM (#299044)
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?
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Re:Obama is RESTful by unexpected on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:17PM (#298605)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by Herring on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:27PM (#298619)
joke ---- whoosh ---->

          O <--- Yuo
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Re:Obama is RESTful by run4yourlives on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:51PM (#298652)
Holy crap, he's a centaur!
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Re:Obama is RESTful by river_styx on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:14PM (#298678)
And Korean, apparently.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by Herring on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:04AM (#299117)
Just messing with the OCD crew a bit :)
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Re:Obama is RESTful by PieSquared on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:26AM (#299216)
It's not OCD, it's CDO. And the letters are in proper alphabetical order, just like they should be.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by river_styx on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:29PM (#298623)
I'm voting for Obama because he knows about bubble sort!
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Re:Obama is RESTful by pius on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:14PM (#298677)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8
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Re:Obama is RESTful by swombat on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:22PM (#298612)
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!

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Re:Obama is RESTful by statictype on Monday September 08, 2008 @10:54PM (#299042)
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.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by JackDanger on Monday September 08, 2008 @03:19PM (#298685)
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.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by jrockway on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:34PM (#298626)
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.

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Re:Obama is RESTful by truebosko on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:41PM (#298633)
No, we don't. But this article was humorous and awesome. Geez, lighten up.
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Re:Obama is RESTful by jrockway on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:48PM (#298646)
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 :)
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Re:Obama is RESTful by asdf333 on Monday September 08, 2008 @02:19PM (#298608)
hilarious. thanks for the great read!
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Re:Obama is RESTful by weegee on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:03PM (#299587)
obama is the clear choice for the future
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