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I'm glad they (and most of us) are not in the business of making insulin pumps or other software where such bugs could have potentially lethal consequences.
by btucker 13y ago
I'm glad they (and most of us) are not in the business of making insulin pumps or other software where such bugs could have potentially lethal consequences.
- themckman 13y agoYou mean you don't want to see a medical supply startup that "moves fast and breaks stuff"? I'm surprised we haven't yet...
- tbrake 13y agoDisrupt Health!
- knodi 13y agoWith death.
- potatolicious 13y agoLike Soylent?
- thebooktocome 13y agoSoylent hasn't broken anything... yet.
- jiggy2011 13y agoDon't medical people get around that by ensuring the first customers are mice?
- ashmud 13y agoPerhaps with nano-tech we can eliminate this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs
- wheaties 13y agoUnfortunately you use very different software development practices which are designed to move slower for things where lives are on the line. Things more akin to Spiral and Waterfall.
- jfb 13y agoI'm not 100% sure that "unfortunately" is how I would describe an approach that is explicitly deliberative and slow-moving, when for instance devices are implanted into people's bodies.
- CaptainZapp 13y agoWell, don't rule bad software glitches in medical devices out so fast. As a matter of fact: they can kill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
- specialp 13y agoYes the machine producing insulin pumps would be in a state of continuous integration/deployment. Then one day at 3am a developer on a binge of Monster Energy and pizza would push an unchecked bug to git and have it deployed.
- aarondf 13y agoah, so that's why my insulin pump looks and acts like a pager from the 90s? I suppose that makes sense. Better an ugly pager than an accidental 10x bolus.
- aberkowitz 13y agoYou should check out some of the newer pumps in the past few years - specifically the Tandem t-slim and the OmniPod. A lot more functionality, and a lot less pager like.