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What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov
An anonymous reader writes "Soured by his attempt to acquire a quote from healthcare.gov, James Turner compiled a short list of things developers can learn from the experience: 'The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage. I say theoretically because I've been trying to get a quote out of it since it launched on Tuesday, and I'm still trying. Every time I think I've gotten past the last glitch, a new one shows up further down the line. While it's easy to write it off as yet another example of how the government (under any administration) seems to be incapable of delivering large software projects, there are some specific lessons that developers can take away. 1) Load testing is your friend.'"
Nothing arbitrary about it; if the other side is trying to do an end-run around the democratic process to shut down a government program they don't like, why would you shut down that program for them?
It's not arbitrary, it's calculated to cause pain as a political move.
Obama Forcing Shut Down of Parks the Feds Don't Even Fund
Private Air Show Stopped Due to Government Shutdown
Obama Illegally Furloughing Civilian Defense Employees at STRATCOM
PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game
Monuments and memorials remained open during previous shutdown
Republicans press Obama to back FEMA funding bill as storm nears
There is plenty more.
The Senate isn't being useful, but at least they did vote on something today: "... the Senate also unanimously approved a measure deeming next week as National Chess Week."
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Progressives and Democrats claim outrage that the government is shut down, but continue to resist efforts to open it - take targeted actions to magnify the pain. Film at 11.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell