This week I started to watch a TV series "The Dropout". The one which tells us the story of Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos. So far I like it.
What did I know about Theranos before watching this series?
1. They wanted to do a rich health analysis at home using just one drop of the patient's blood.
2. They WANTED, but they never figured out how to do that. So they cheated to get more investments.
In the 2nd episode it was shown HOW they've cheated. The creators of the series have shown
the code on the screen. Let's examine it (see attached picture).So what the code does? They've just commented out any actual calculations and returned a result from the file. That's a high level overview.
🐞 BUT
1. The file extension is .dbk and it seems it's a Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone Backup File
2. The editor — VEX. The only thing I found is Vex (A Visual Editor for XML)
3. The code itself.
Serial.begin and Serial.println tell us that this is an Arduino code.4.
raise_eception("ERROR") has a typo5. They load a file using the Windows path
Now let's speculate on their engineering culture — I bet they were bad with DORA metrics.
⬛️ Have you watched it?
