I wonder what languages it focuses on. I haven't heard.
I find some of it amusing - I've worked on some enterprise-level projects with business systems talking to other business systems, and I can only imagine how much eye-rolling is going on among the programmers that are actually trying to do the work. This is a project where some very visible, loud people have a vested interest in it looking bad even if it were flawless.
I actually think it would be kind of fun to be close enough to the technology to really identify the core constraints and be in a position to help alleviate them.
"This is a project where some very visible, loud people have a vested interest in it looking bad even if it were flawless."
Are any of the managers in the White House, HHS and CMMS in that category? Certainly not loud (nobody is speaking on the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586119), but perhaps anti-Obamacare moles?
Because the people running this show every sign of being true believers, and I seriously doubt they're playing much attention to the "waco birds" who are totally against it.
The sad thing is that the site being bad should be really tangential to the politics. I personally would love to see outright socialized healthcare, where everyone was mandatorally enrolled in a government created program. I feel like we'd have the most leverage to bring costs down under a centralized and non-profit system. However, this system being as broken as it is - and costing as much as it has - did nothing to help that cause, even though it should be tangential to it. Very frustrating.
I guess you can't see how giving the government even more power of life and death over its subjects can be anything but political?
Certainly the U.K. NHS experience shows the running of such a system is political. I don't watch it closely, but as I understand it Tony Blair/New Labour doubled spending, but somehow functionaries and bureaucrats got the new money, not the front line people and institutions.
You think we can have anything less than a totally political discussion about euthanasia, most recently known as the Liverpool Care Pathway in the NHS?
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I wonder what languages it focuses on. I haven't heard.
I find some of it amusing - I've worked on some enterprise-level projects with business systems talking to other business systems, and I can only imagine how much eye-rolling is going on among the programmers that are actually trying to do the work. This is a project where some very visible, loud people have a vested interest in it looking bad even if it were flawless.
I actually think it would be kind of fun to be close enough to the technology to really identify the core constraints and be in a position to help alleviate them.
"This is a project where some very visible, loud people have a vested interest in it looking bad even if it were flawless."
Are any of the managers in the White House, HHS and CMMS in that category? Certainly not loud (nobody is speaking on the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586119), but perhaps anti-Obamacare moles?
Because the people running this show every sign of being true believers, and I seriously doubt they're playing much attention to the "waco birds" who are totally against it.
The sad thing is that the site being bad should be really tangential to the politics. I personally would love to see outright socialized healthcare, where everyone was mandatorally enrolled in a government created program. I feel like we'd have the most leverage to bring costs down under a centralized and non-profit system. However, this system being as broken as it is - and costing as much as it has - did nothing to help that cause, even though it should be tangential to it. Very frustrating.
I guess you can't see how giving the government even more power of life and death over its subjects can be anything but political?
Certainly the U.K. NHS experience shows the running of such a system is political. I don't watch it closely, but as I understand it Tony Blair/New Labour doubled spending, but somehow functionaries and bureaucrats got the new money, not the front line people and institutions.
You think we can have anything less than a totally political discussion about euthanasia, most recently known as the Liverpool Care Pathway in the NHS?