'Best and brightest' techies drafted to fix Obamacare computer glitches

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 10/20/13 | Brad Knickerbocker

[NormsRevenge]

Maybe Nasa has some ideas.. or they could have a Beer Summit and have Sebilius buy.

Epic Fail The Sequel

[NormsRevenge]

I'll have a Bud Lite.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Does anyone still remember how to write code in Basic anymore?

[Sacajaweau]

We’re talking about a stupid computer program. There is no reason for failure. We have millions of these programs...all devised to catch people at “whatever”...so we’ll all be criminals together.

[Revolting cat!]

Spaghetti code, if that’s what it is to reflect the 2,000+ page law and 30,000 (!) pages of regulations, is not fixable.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I can see it now. Hundreds of Ivy League professors put on the payroll to supervise a 16 year old kid to fix it. If one supervisor is good, hundreds must be “more better”.

[SueRae]

*sigh* You can’t throw 9 women in a room and make a baby in a month. (Old saying at my former employer) But they will try....until the finally realize that this monstrosity can’t be fixed this way. I wonder which of them will tell the Pres the emperor has no clothes.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“the federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system.”

I'm sure that was built into the system by design. More money for Obies campaign contributors.

[TomServo]

"I think that there's no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website"...

The president is signing up? Har har....laugh a minute this jerk is.

[dfwgator]

“I’m gonna write me a minivan.”

[Rodm]

And the WH got all this data from a screwed up website that doesn’t work. LOL

[dhs12345]

I am thinking that some Solyndra engineers need jobs. Agreed, solar cells and software aren't quite the same. But who cares, they have tons money the American people don't know the difference.

[cicero2k]

They spent $600 million and did’t have the best and the brightest?

[struggle]

Best and Brightest = OFA script kiddies with confidentiality agreements.

[dhs12345]

Wait until this monstrosity really gets going.

[Ezekiel]

They spent $600 million and did’t have the best and the brightest?

How convenient, huh. Oh we only need another couple billion... (lather, rinse, repeat)

[A CA Guy]

Biggest glitch is the out of reach pricing in return for the high deductible and lower quality of care.

[dagogo redux]

Let’s hope they do better than the morons involved with Fulfillment By Amazon.

[informavoracious]

“The Mythical Man-Month” by Fred Brooks, first published in 1975, discusses the phenomenon that adding workers to a late software project only makes it later.

[sten]

the best and brightness understand how bad this is... and will embed bugs, back doors, and crashes all triggered by external means

should be interesting

meanwhile... where’d our $450m go??