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Obamacare and the Small Switcheroo
[minor edits and one added section] Ignore the nets for an afternoon and see what happens. The news I woke up to this morning (thanks to an early morning e-mail from John Fund at National Review) is...
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Obamacare and the Subversive Masses
It is clear that with the start of 2014, the Obama Administration — as many (including myself) predicted — wants to declare victory with Obamacare and go home. It is also clear to many of us — but...
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Obamacare and the Cold Equations
There is a famous 1954 short story by Tom Godwin called “The Cold Equations”.[1] In it, a young girl stows away on a rocket ship bringing plague vaccine to a colony world deep in space; her goal is to...
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Obamacare and the Bifurcated Cusp
Decades ago, as a computer science undergrad at BYU, I took a graduate math class in catastrophe theory, taught by Prof. Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson. This wasn’t because of particular skill on my...
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Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk
Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing...
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Obamacare and Healthcare.gov: How We Got Here
Stephen Covey was fond of saying, “You teach what you are.” Regardless of what platitudes you speak, all you really teach is what you actually live and practice. It should not be surprising, then,...
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Obamacare and the Damp Squib
The national media, having been forced by the sheer bad performance of Healthcare.gov since its launch two months ago, is once again facing a critical decision: will it, in fact, report how...
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Obamacare and the Bursting Dam
The media for the past three years has failed to do its job as independent and skeptical investigative journalists with regards to Obamacare in general and the essential technology infrastructure in...
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Post at Ace of Spades: why Obamacare is different
I have a new post up over at Ace of Spades about why Obamacare is different from the usual anti-GOP tropes put forward by the Democrats, and why they should be very, very afraid: 1) How many of you...
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Obamacare and the 90% solution
The first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the schedule. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the schedule. – The Metric Law of 90s We’ve had a lot of percentages thrown around about the...
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Obamacare and the Three Heads [UPDATED]
In a large-scale, well-managed IT project, there are three key roles that need to be filled by three different people who are each talented, qualified, tough-nosed, and given commensurate authority....
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Obamacare and the Unstopped Project
The most valuable IT consultant is someone who stands athwart a failing software project, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it....
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Post at Ace of Spaces: what comes next for Healthcare.gov?
I published a post over at Ace of Spades yesterday on what is likely to happen next with the Healthcare.gov development effort: So, what can you expect next? There are two basic courses that a project...
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Obamacare and the Unforgiving Gauntlet
“Running the gauntlet” refers to a ceremony of passage, trial, or even execution wherein a person is forced to walk or run between two lines of people who are usually armed with clubs, whips, or...
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Obamacare and the Testing Gap
Much has come out in the past few days over the late, minimal, and unsuccessful testing done on Healthcare.gov before it was put into production. From what I’ve read so far, it was pretty appalling...
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Obamacare and the Three Errors
[made some minor edits and corrected a few typos] A friend of mine, a staunch Obamacare supporter, made a comment the other day, saying in effect, “Since you Republicans are complaining about the...
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Obamacare and the Oscillation Overthruster
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. – Henry David Thoreau There is a pattern I commonly see in troubled or failing IT projects, a near-constant...
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Obamacare and the Long Bomb
The big news out of Washington in the past 24 hours is that the Healthcare.gov website has been turned over to one of the project contractors, and that Healthcare.gov will be up and working by the end...
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[Made a few minor edits] [added an additional clip suggested by Jim Geraghty] There’s a running threat/gag in The Empire Strikes Back involving the hyperdrive of the Millennium Falcon. Various...
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FEMA blocks flood mapping effort in Colorado
Via Slashdot comes this slap-your-forehead story over at TechDirt: As you may have heard, Boulder, Colorado has been hit by massive flooding over the past week, and it’s been something of a mess. A...
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