[ExI] Millions of Lines of Code

spike spike66 at att.net
Thu Nov 14 16:00:52 UTC 2013


 

 

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:26 AM
To: ExI chat list
Subject: [ExI] Millions of Lines of Code

 

Thought you might enjoy this.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/

 

According to this, the number of lines of code required to fix
healthcare.gov is roughly the size of a modern web browser, firefox or
chrome...

 

The kicker is at the bottom of the page. Unreal.

 

-Kelly

 

 

 

Kelly, in all this code, no one has ever discovered a plausible explanation
for why they ever needed allll thiiiis  coooode in the first place.  Why
didn't they just set it up like the old days, where the whole deal could be
presented on a paper chart, or fifty different charts, one for each state?
It would have an income column, age brackets, a list of companies and their
prices, along with what they cover, a column for the penalty for opting out,
and they're done.  Let the insurance companies fill in most of the blanks.
Easy.  Doesn't need code at all, or if so, not much.

 

What in the goddam hell are allllll thoooose liiiiines of code actually
doing?

 

spike

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