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[cryptomancer]

I'm working on SRS right now.
It's so incredibly not fun. I mean, if there were a height of fun in the world. Working on this project would be the polar opposite.
Anyhow...43 odd hours to get it done...

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[morethanreal]

Wait until you do the design doc for 464. The polar opposite of the height of fun isn't really the bottom of the pool.

[cryptomancer]

aww crap...
Well, Rock bottom can't be that much further down.

[graemlin]

I always describe it as such: you know a project's screwed up when you're intentionally writing bad code to get around the fact that you're "strongly discouraged" from acknowledging a mistake in design and fixing it there.

(Strongly discouraged == we'll take away marks if you do. But since the code isn't particularly well marked, you can implement basically any ugly hackery there, as long as you follow your design, which they do check.)

*sigh*

465, here we come...

[cryptomancer]

It most certainly feels like your entire class is reading my blog tonight.

Interesting story though. I think we'll know that pain next term.
Fortunately, there's a work term in between....

Where are you working Graeme?

[graemlin]

The other major co-op employer on the west coast. :)

(We sell more than books!)

[cryptomancer]

Ahh...
We like to tease our Amazonians with "At least I work on more then a big web app"
That's cool though!
The major employer this term is Google for us...11 going there! only 5 to MS. 5 to Amazon I think.

[me_apple]

Well I was about to say the same, but someone beat me to it. I'm not sure that the design doc is any worse than the SRS, but it is certainly just as bad.

[indiglo_i]

I thought it was worse, and I like design much more than requirements. The only redeeming value of the SDD is that there's only one! I honestly count those few days leading up to its completion as some of the unhappiest of my University career though.

[morethanreal]

I had quite a traumatic night drawing a ludicrous number of diagrams and repeating myself five times in slightly different ways when doing the SDD, and I don't recall having nearly as awful a night with the SRS.

[cryptomancer]

Well, we just lost a bunch of state diagrams due to our friend Visio.
So ya...I'm feeling the pain.

[cryptomancer]

Greg...not liking some SE work?
I never thought I'd live to see the day.
Much like I'm a MS evangelist, I believed you were king of SE. My confidence in the system is shattered.

[indiglo_i]

Actually most of the core courses I've disliked have been SE courses. Here's my list of core-courses I've strongly disliked:

ECE126, SE380, SE362, SE463, CS457, SE464

As for everyone in the '06 class reading your blog right now. I believe we're employing an amazing livejournal aggregator called the 'friends page', rather than constantly refreshing your blog. :-)

[cryptomancer]

True, but 4 people replied within 20 minutes :) If that's not incredibly coincidental, then I don't know what is. :)

Though lately, It's felt that everyone checks their blogs are roughly the same point in the night.
But then that plan doesn't fully work because Ayelet is on the East coast and the rest of you are on the West coast. (West coast fo' life!)

So I don't know... I just thought it was cool.