Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags

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2 pointsjamessun2 comments

"Crammed into conference rooms with pizza for dinner, some programmers building the Obama administration's showcase health insurance website were growing increasingly stressed. Some worked past 10 p.m., energy drinks in hand. Others rewrote computer code over and over to meet what they considered last-minute requests for changes from the government or other contractors."

Per the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583327), and from multiple sources we've heard those change orders continued through the last week before the launch.

They're not the only ones who "consider" these to be "last-minute requests for changes from the government", which decided to be the integrator, including testing per the AP, for this effort (HHS's CMMS, a unit with no particular expertise in that).

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