Or … is that really the right advice? According to a note in the Harvard Business Review blog, “[E]ncouraging kids to blow off schoolwork to write apps, or skip college to become entrepreneurs, is like advising them to take their college money and invest it in PowerBall. A few may win big; many or most will end up living with their moms.”
Source code from early Microsoft products has been released via the Computer History Museum (obviously with cooperation from MS). We wonder if practices might have changed over the years, but betting not…
Today’s Post carries a nice chronology of the dysfunctional process used to deploy Maryland’s health exchange system. Our young software engineers should take note of how little these issues involve the technology itself.
Potentially not much. Computerworld gives the overview of the fed’s contractor, CGI Federal, status with respect to CMMI, and the case for these credentials is not tremendously compelling. But then again, the customer changed fundamental requirements late in the game after delaying decisions on key requirements too.
But hey, all that was behind them when the landed the healthcare.gov contract, right?
With the complexity of systems increasing and regulatory practices still a moving target, EHR software is blamed as a source of increasing risk to patient health. And the good news – for software companies – is that the feds exempt them from obligations to report malfunctions or defects they find in their systems.
People of Boston have opened up a google doc to help provide housing for people who have been hurt, displaced, etc. It is an awesome story of tragedy bringing people together. On the google doc are people’s name, number, email, and neighborhood so victims can contact them and have an idea of the area they live in.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130128133906.htm
Donors to biobanks — vast collections of human tissue samples that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for diseases — have a right to basic information about how their donations may be used, a Michigan State University ethicist argues in a new paper.