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Old 11-12-2013, 11:24 AM  
Fetish Gimp
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Originally Posted by _Richard_ View Post


the fundamental hilarity here is, our government spent 500 million over a year, on what these guys did for free in days
Not quite. Once you get past the sensationalist headline you get to see there's more to it than that.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/11/tech/w...althcare-site/

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Originally Posted by George Kalogeropoulos, creator of thehealthsherpa.com
"It isn't a fair apples-to-apples comparison," Kalogeropoulos said. "Unlike Healthcare.gov, our site doesn't connect to the IRS, DHS, and various state exchanges and authorities.

Furthermore, we're using the government's data, so our site is only possible because of the hard work that the Healthcare.gov team has done."
But having a headline that says "Three programmers make bare-bones site that aggregates information out of healthcare.gov in three days" will not get as many clicks as "Three programmers make better site than healthcare.gov in three days"
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