I'm not sure whether I'm going to see the new Ender's Game movie.I'm not alone in facing this decision. The big-budget movie is based on the much beloved science fiction book of the same name, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. However, a lot of people are reluctant to see it because its author, Orson Scott Card, has in later years turned out to be something of a … [Read more...] about Ender’s Game…Meh
No Jury Duty
I dodged a...not a bullet, more like a slow-lobbed softball...today. I was a standby juror for the Cook County courtroom in Skokie today, but when I called in, only people with last names beginning H through S had to report.I'm relieved. Somehow, this time it just seemed like a drag.Although at least they've straightened out the cell phone situation, and all the juror … [Read more...] about No Jury Duty
Physical Reality and the Federal Rules of Evidence
Jamison Koehler has a short post quoting from the Federal Rules of Evidence: According to Federal Rule of Evidence 401, the test for relevance is whether the evidence has a “tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.” I've heard that language before, … [Read more...] about Physical Reality and the Federal Rules of Evidence
500 Million Lines of Code?
500 million lines of code. That's how big the source code is for HealthCare.gov, according to this article at the New York Times. That number has since been repeated in a CNN editorial by Julianne Pepitone.That can't be right.I know for a fact you can build a healthcare enrollment site in under a million lines of code. HealthCare.gov does more than just handle … [Read more...] about 500 Million Lines of Code?
More Interesting News About HealthCare.gov Problems
Lena H. Sun and Scott Wilson in the Washington Post have a pretty good article about the HealthCare.gov mess that tells us more about what's going wrong. Let's start with the specification for the load: CGI built the shopping and enrollment applications to accommodate 60,000 users at the same time. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park has said that the government expected … [Read more...] about More Interesting News About HealthCare.gov Problems