Y2K was a fear of programs that already were in working order.
That sounds like a wild-assed guess.
Sounds like the tipoff the iceberg..only what they can see above the waterline...
5 MLOCS....hmmmm. They’ve actually only been at this since March of 2013 since the government overseers finally pulled the last bit of requirements and conditions out of their collective asses.
5 MLOCS since March. I submit the programmers were either on Ganja, or they stole the majority of the code they slapped together.
Wally’s dream job. Any attempt to fix the 5 million lines will certainly break the other xxx million lines. So why even start?
I think they just don’t want people to see the real issues relating to Obamacare until well after the 2014 elections. Maybe the 2016 elections.
It was never to be but, at some point the Administration will realize the gift that the GOP was giving the Democrats by giving them another year to get this thing working.
There, FIXED!
that explains the cost... they got paid a dollar per line of code.
I can easily turn a one line c# statement into 10 or 20 lines
No, what Obama Care needs to work is the DNA codes of basic human nature to be re-written.
Throw lots more code writers at it, fast! That’ll fix it!
It’s just as effective as putting nine women in a room to get a baby in one month, or so I’m told.
Who has nine months to wait? We need it NOW!
I found two online sources saying that the average is 10-12 lines of code per programmer per day. So, call it 20 lines of code per day. That’s 250,000 days. Now divide that by the number of programmers. Except coordinating that many programmers is a huge headache. Then, you have to test the code. Then there will still be bugs. Plus, you have to get the politics out of it and just present the prices without trying to sugar coat them.
My recollection is that for military contracts we bid 10 lines per day per programmer.
Cha Ching !!
Anyone with a project management background see this ending well?
And just think. Over half a billion dollars and three and a half years to put it together, and this is the result. Amazes me how lousy the feds can be with something, and how great they handle something else. NASA, for instance. If they handled NASA like they did that website, we would still be trying to get a satellite in orbit.
It is said that a typical development team including testers, managers can deliver 10-15K lines of code per year per member. The best teams can achieve something like 20K lines per year per member.
That would be 250 of the best for a year. It would take more than a year to hire 250 of the best, since they already have jobs...
What are you implying, 'another expert'?
We just got the San Fran Nan line, “we have to fix it just to find out what’s in it”
Fix 5 million lines just to find out what’s screwed up in the other 495 million.
This wasn’t unintentional.