Many of these stats are difficult to believe and based on some pretty weak evidence. For example, the Healthcare.gov stat is from this quote in a NY Times article:
> "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."
This specialist could have been anyone, and it might not even have been someone who worked on the code. I could see some random non-technical project manager at the NY Times guessing that number out of thin air.
Regardless, 500M is a totally ridiculous number, even if you tried to beef it up.
> "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code."
This specialist could have been anyone, and it might not even have been someone who worked on the code. I could see some random non-technical project manager at the NY Times guessing that number out of thin air.
Regardless, 500M is a totally ridiculous number, even if you tried to beef it up.