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by thoraway1010 2265 days ago
actually, scaling a website is much easier than scaling a medical service.

If you can't be bothered to take some basic steps for web site scaling (google page speed + a CDN) then the idea that you will carefully and successfully navigate to a 1 million tests per day moderate to high complexity medical test seems like it will be a stretch no?

That said, a 100% support MUCh higher test capacity, both this and IGg IGm (which should allow for home testing). So good luck!
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chipotle_coyote 2265 days ago
> If you can't be bothered to take some basic steps for web site scaling (google page speed + a CDN) then the idea that you will carefully and successfully navigate to a 1 million tests per day moderate to high complexity medical test seems like it will be a stretch no?

No. :)

Seriously, these are orthogonal skills. I briefly worked for a communications satellite company that had a pretty godawful web site, but I doubt any of their prospective customers visited it and said, "Wow, if these people can't design a good looking web page, how can we trust them to put a satellite in orbit?"

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dang 2265 days ago
One reason that argument doesn't work is the effects of focus. When you're intensely focused on something, momentum builds up that is like a high-speed train. You can't do nimble switching, even to easier things. One might imagine that they'd forget to, say, pay a utility bill as well.

(I have no inside information and am simply guessing based on past experience with unrelated things.)

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Ididntdothis 2265 days ago
"If you can't be bothered to take some basic steps for web site scaling (google page speed + a CDN) then the idea that you will carefully and successfully navigate to a 1 million tests per day moderate to high complexity medical test seems like it will be a stretch no? "

Their priorities may be on other things than websites.

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thoraway1010 2264 days ago
From experience, the clients who can't get some things right struggle to get many things right.

Seriously.

Someone has a great idea and is able to attract good people to work with them? Then even though item X is the focus, you see quality in items Y -> Z. It naturally seems to happen.

I'd love to know WHY this is the case.

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