{"id":39297,"date":"2013-10-22T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/whats-a-few-million-lines-of-code-between-friends.html"},"modified":"2013-10-23T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:06:14","slug":"whats-a-few-million-lines-of-code-between-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/whats-a-few-million-lines-of-code-between-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a few million lines of code between friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">An interesting look at the reporting on the Healthcare.gov site problems, and how technically unsavvy journalists and &quot;unnamed sources&quot; are busy with bad quotes and spinning responsibility.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3n_mMr8VqNegDgz-B8OwUa3Og3h1ZqzuZUHtnCsYOB8VYOU0Q2ChukL-E6rU7SIS7TBqGc_vrTkdsX2RA_nAXOHznkATFYeeatRmKOrf1sgtCEWJ-imZVR-SCCNhfvGR7jn6NdsTzPE6LAxlD_i5aykDc51MEGPcKxyKLlPMn5vchafTpkVRgHfMCGOvCqntGCFv782gJDCu815Yd_o5PE6BY3qtVU41=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/bitwise\/2013\/10\/healthcare_gov_problems_what_5_million_lines_of_code_really_means.html'>What Does Healthcare.gov\u2019s \u201c5 Million Lines of Code\u201d Really Mean?<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Last weekend, some anonymous \u201cspecialist\u201d told the New York Times that \u201c5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten\u201d in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, according to the source, is that the project has a total of \u201c500 million lines of&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/BeTA2zuqiek' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look at the reporting on the Healthcare.gov site problems, and how technically unsavvy journalists and &quot;unnamed sources&quot; are busy with bad quotes and spinning responsibility. What Does Healthcare.gov\u2019s \u201c5 Million Lines of Code\u201d Really Mean? Last weekend, some anonymous \u201cspecialist\u201d told the New York Times that \u201c5 million lines of software code may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/whats-a-few-million-lines-of-code-between-friends.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s a few million lines of code between friends?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39344,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions\/39344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}