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You know what, I'm getting real sick of all the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over a fucking website. Getting a website to scale is hard. Really hard in fact

You know what, I'm getting real sick of all the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over a fucking website. Getting a website to scale is hard. Really hard in fact. Comparing numbers for the ACA website against Amazon who has had decades of effort put into this is just patently absurd. Why is anyone surprised that there are issues with the website in its first month? Is this not typical for any large engineering effort of this nature? Anyone who expected any different is either lying to themselves or being disingenuous for political effect or pageviews. Even Google rolled out their social network slowly to ensure they had enough capacity. If Google can't be a full capacity from day one, why does anyone expect so much more from a site contracted out to the lowest bidder?

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forgottenpass 13y ago
I think that the for the public, heathcare.gov is like the first time someone buys a hotly anticipated multiplayer video game only to discover that the servers are jam packed for the first few weeks. Tech people should have seen this coming months beforehand, I know I sure did. And everyone in government did too, but for a different reason. Big programs launch in a sorry state, regardless of whether there is a website that can be a disaster. It's eventual transformation to a not-totally-busted-by-government-standards state is a forgone conclusion too. That's why the Republicans wanted to push the rollout closer to the midterms in one of our recent manufactured crisis, they wanted the growing pains to be closer in everyone's mind. I can't and don't blame people who didn't know it would be a hot mess, but this far in I can't help but read commentary on it with any more patience than I give to people who still say "Obummer." There was once room for me to be all like "AWWW SNAP", but that was so long ago, what are you even doing anymore? Like it our not, this health program belongs to all of us now, it's probably gonna be a decade before anybody burns the political capital necessary to meaningfully change it. I don't really care about bikeshedding over expected problems before the inevitable fix.

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forgottenpass 13y ago

I think that the for the public, heathcare.gov is like the first time someone buys a hotly anticipated multiplayer video game only to discover that the servers are jam packed for the first few weeks. Tech people should have seen this coming months beforehand, I know I sure did. And everyone in government did too, but for a different reason. Big programs launch in a sorry state, regardless of whether there is a website that can be a disaster. It's eventual transformation to a not-totally-busted-by-government-standards state is a forgone conclusion too. That's why the Republicans wanted to push the rollout closer to the midterms in one of our recent manufactured crisis, they wanted the growing pains to be closer in everyone's mind. I can't and don't blame people who didn't know it would be a hot mess, but this far in I can't help but read commentary on it with any more patience than I give to people who still say "Obummer." There was once room for me to be all like "AWWW SNAP", but that was so long ago, what are you even doing anymore? Like it our not, this health program belongs to all of us now, it's probably gonna be a decade before anybody burns the political capital necessary to meaningfully change it. I don't really care about bikeshedding over expected problems before the inevitable fix.