If I seem so smart, it's because I'm not

[pphaneuf]

I'm a bit disappointed at work, of the direction our product is taking. It seems like some people have a fetish for complexity, and, well, I have a fetish for simplicity. My ability to design nifty elegant systems is almost directly linked to my inability to comprehend inelegant systems that have too many exceptions and special behaviours for me to all keep in my head at once.

Also, speaking of work, I'm not too impressed by last minute requests made to denizsarikaya. 15 hour days are not to be expected of people, that's just insane. For her, it's like that all the time. Oh, sorry, only 12 hours, most of the time. And she almost never comes on weekends anymore. Yeah, that's totally sane.

I managed to get some positive stuff done today, despite my disappointments, such as fixing some bugs in XPLC, my own pet project. It really is a beacon of hope and sanity in my software development universe, these days.

I'm having this delusional hope for this term not to suck as badly as the previous one. I spent most of last term doing random bug fixing, and I'm really not good at that. But I think this term, I might get to work on stuff I'm good at and love doing.

I watched the first episode of the new season of Alias. I'm not impressed at all, but I think I've become uninterested by television nowadays. I'd much rather hang out with people and chat. Geeking out together over the content of one's Palm. Talking about our formative years over a few pints of the black stuff. You know, hanging out with cool people?

I fiddled a bit with my remote control setup, so I didn't have to swap speaker cables in the back of my computer when I wanted to switch between the study and other room. It's all at my fingertips now!

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In hindsight...

[denizsarikaya.livejournal.com]

... I probably didn't need to do as much as I did last night. I could have just said, "here's the plan which QA already has in place. Evidently we're not following it. Here's my explanation of why we're not following it and what the pusher can do to fix it. Go bitch at him because it's not my responsibility and I'd like to get my own stuff done."

I had better do that the next time this happens. Because once I got out of the office and home, I started realising how much of the last hour and a half at work was doing what was, effectively, the other pusher's work.

Re: In hindsight...

[denizsarikaya.livejournal.com]

And, yes, I've already told the parties involved what I should have done and to ease off on the pressure towards me.

Re: In hindsight...

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

He did ask for "a plan by tomorrow", not "all fixed by tomorrow"! :-)