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Tips at restaurants across the country. well, that person strikes again. this week, this time in washington state when the bartender read the receipt and saw the $5,000 tip. $5,000! he double-check we'd the tipper to make sure it wasn't a mistake. the man has been signing each tip with the instagram user name of tipsforjesus. so if you passed a homeless man on the street would you give him a dollar or just keep walking? one computer programmer had a different idea. instead of money he gave one homeless man a laptop and the chance to turn his life around. here's cnn's bill weir. >> reporter: ...

>> let's watch. >> this is patrick, the kind of computer whiz who starts companies in college. he came to meet someone in tech who would buy his ideas and change his life. he just didn't know it would be the homeless guy on the walk to work. >> he just had something about him. and the first time i remember this thinking in my head like who is this guy? >> reporter: this is leo. as a kid he was obsessed with science, astronomy, chemistry, physics. but then he fell in with the wrong crowd, became a father too soon, and two years ago first lost his job and then his home. >> what did you think he ...

Is a no-brainer, and even someone who isn't a computer whiz should have figured that one out in advance? >> well, you know, we've been in situations in the past where if we felt there was an issue, at the very, very least with band width, you could support a simple application, or simple information. the fact that, you know, they couldn't support 20 million people, or however many million people are coming to the website, that is a concern that it wasn't addressed to at least mitigate or prevent headline risks for the government by handling the, you know, public-facing portal side. >> andy, th...

Bandwidth, being ready for it, is a no-brainer, and even someone who isn't a computer whiz should have figured that one out in advance? >> well, you know, we've been in situations in the past where if we felt there was an issue, at the very, very least with band width, you could support a simple application, or simple information. the fact that, you know, they couldn't support 20 million people, or however many million people are coming to the website, that is a concern that it wasn't addressed to at least mitigate or prevent headline risks for the government by handling the, you know, public-...

>> please wait. >> i feel like we need sound effects. >> we'll keep trying. >> we'll check back in. are you frustrated? this is the fourth week we have had you do this. >> ari walked through earlier. he said, you know, it's not people like us that will sit here all day unless we are getting paid to log on. it's the elderly people trying this. many of them need health care. >> it's crazy. we'll check back in. first my next guest describes the obama care website as a disaster. here to explain how he would solve this mess is technology expert fms a software development company. luke chun. nice to...