‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 20, 2013 | By LOUISE RADNOFSKY

[Lazamataz]

I am curious about the number of lines of code.

Lines of code don't matter as much any more. C# is a good example. One line of code can include an alpha expression and be wrapped by a delegate, making that one line of code capable of iterating or sorting a series of objects quite efficiently. Problem is, it might take a day to correctly write that one line.

[Cementjungle]

In my experience in S/W development (45 years) adding resources to a project that is behind or in trouble ALWAYS makes things worse. ALWAYS

These people obviously haven't read "The Mythical Man-Month"

[JediJones]

I would abandon the “one session” model. You should sign up and be told you’ll get an e-mail when your information has been gathered from the various databases. An IRS tax return isn’t processed in 5 seconds either when you submit your tax returns online. It’s probably an unrealistic goal to do this in real time, because of all the potential links in the chain coalescing that data that could break.

[Mike Darancette]

Guys, is there actually a spec underneath all of this crap?

A spec probably but this CF was caused by changing the spec as they went along. ex: "We need it to do one more thing" repeatedly

[Mike Darancette]

This isn’t a lot different than the sign up for Social Security which seems to work quite well.