Re: [tlug] e-Tax and the timid gaijin

["Curt J. Sampson" <cjs@example.com>]

On 2025-03-13 17:55 +0900 (Thu), AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai wrote:

> Hell...  the IT systems where I work is all outsourced to fujitsu or
> another Japanese corporation.

Oh dear! Fujitsu's systems are known for quite _literally_ driving people
to suicide.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

On 2025-03-13 14:50 +0000 (Thu), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Unfortunately, at least in the academic world it's clear that a lot of
> work is being done in-house by people with no clue how things work in
> the real world.

Well, academic programmers are known world-wide for being, generally, bad
when it comes to actualy building a product, rather than just a bunch of
code that runs if you look at it just right. (There are always exceptions,
of course.)

cjs
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