[hackuser]

> In practice, forensic accounting is roughly as interesting as archaeology. It makes for some great headlines in the end, but there is an enormous amount of detail and bureaucracy you have to dig through to get there.

Perhaps accountants and archeologists would say the same about coding.

[enraged_camel]

Coding is a creative endeavor. In contrast, forensic accounting is more similar to reading code someone else wrote and trying to figure out what the hell they were thinking when they wrote it.

[epochwolf]

That's basically what I'm doing today. I'm trying to figure out what the hell that guy that originally wrote this codebase was thinking. (Probably something like "Oh hey, Ruby has this feature Java didn't have, let's use it in exactly the wrong way!")

[lambda]

You haven't been coding long enough if you hadn't had projects that consisted mostly of just that.

[lostlogin]

I've done almost nothing and I look at my code and wonder that. Yes, I'm doing it wrong.

[crpatino]

Every creative endeavor is 1% of inspiration, followed by 99% or perspiration. That's the only way to manifest the pretty pictures inside your head onto a tangible medium that can reach others.

Creativity without hard, and often dull, work is called "Day dreaming".

[hessenwolf]

Forensic accounting is to accounting what debugging Cobol is to coding, maybe?

[girvo]

You've just described my last three months.

[Amelot]

Nice