The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good

Re:The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't lo... by epistasis on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:28AM (#10462846)

Unit testing? Source control? Continuous integration? Code documentation? Seems like red tape and nitpicking rather than substantive coding. It's stories like that that guarantee that I would never try to start a company in software or recommend a friend join one.

Just because standard practice seems unnecessary to you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist for good reasons. To anyone in biotech or familiar with what can go wrong with physical products, your complaints come across as ignorant.

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Re:The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't lo... by Uhhrrr on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:00AM (#10463038)

I've worked at successful companies which did a terrible job at one or another of those, and the customers didn't complain (or die). You can get away with a lot more in software than you can in other disciplines, because in software you can incorporate negative feedback relatively quickly.

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Re:The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't lo... by judk on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:34PM (#10469105)

The high flying startups you know didn't go to market with the engineering processes you mention.

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