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hinkley on May 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

I’ve worked on this project a few times. It’s hell or /r/maliciouscompliance territory.

Most of the time the requirements don’t contain common sense.

Like the servers have to keep working after our ad campaign is successful...

ishi on May 5, 2018 [–]

A real life example - client discovers that users cannot actually get into the system. Contractor says: "Ah, you wanted a login screen? This wasn't in the specs! You need to pay me more to implement a login screen."

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