Re: [tlug] [OT] Questions about Employment in Japan

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-12-10 18:16 +0900 (Wed), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The big difference is that inside of IT you often get to choose the
> rules for "valid accounting", whereas in business accounting the rules
> may be determined by law (tax accounting), contract (financial reports
> for listed companies), or custom (GAAP).  Accountants almost never get
> to set the rules themselves.

True, but even so, there are plenty of times in IT where you have to
deal with the way the "real world" (if you can call weird business
requirements that) works, and those seem inevitably the hardest part of
development.

Part of the genius of good developer is, in fact, the ability to
minimize these cases.

cjs
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