anchor.diff:  that's pretty unfair. But I'm not an expert in that field, or actually any field to begin with. What 
   really got my attention were the comments that followed this post in reddit:
   
  -[quote, Some guy on reddit, 'https://www.reddit.com/user/Evilsqirrel[Evilsqirrel]']
  -____
  +[source]
   I actually just recently ran into an issue with my programming course where they knocked off 10 
   points because my output was 1 cent off what their "desired" output was, regardless of the fact 
   that my program was actually rounding properly instead of truncating, making it more accurate 
   than it actually was. I never hated a teacher so much in my life.
  -____
   
  --
  +[small]#- By some guy on reddit, https://www.reddit.com/user/Evilsqirrel[Evilsqirrel]#
   
  -To which somebody replied:
   
  -[quote, Some other guy on reddit, 'https://www.reddit.com/user/qwertyslayer[qwertyslayer]']
  -____
  +
  +To which somebody *replied*:
  +
  +[source]
   I've got bad, bad news for you if you want to be a software engineer that works for money.
  -____
   
  --
  +[small]#- By some other guy on reddit, https://www.reddit.com/user/qwertyslayer[qwertyslayer]#
  +
  +
   
   He can't be more right! I've gone through similar situations during my career, in many projects 
   and in very different scales. What I've really learned is that you have to choose your battles, 
   you're paid for your expertise and for your skills, my problem is that I have amazing skills 
  -to detect this kind of problems (The client wants something that will eventually lead you and 
  +to detect this kind of problems (_The client wants something that will eventually lead you and 
   him to hours of frustration and bug hunting due to bad approaches and rules that don't follow 
  -common sense), my advantage is that I have good ways to work this through by communication and 
  -negotiation (Sometimes the client really wants that feature that will shut his business down 
  -and it will be extremely hard to convince him otherwise). 
  +common sense_), my advantage is that I have good ways to work this through by communication and 
  +negotiation (_Sometimes the client really wants that feature that will shut his business down 
  +and it will be extremely hard to convince him otherwise_). 
   
  -So what do I recommend: don't be an asshole. When some points in the specs doesn't follow common 
  +So what do I recommend: *don't be an asshole*. When some points in the specs doesn't follow common 
   sense or has some technical underlying issue -> Go and talk about it with your client/boss since 
   it will free you from the suffering caused by taking one of the 2 potentially wrong decisions: 
   1. You fix it and keep your mouth shut, then it will explode in your face when he tells you that 
  
positive.code: will pay a visit to the school and hopefully this teacher stops killing kid's motivation to learn 
  and specially learn math.
  
  For a final statement I will leave here another comment from the thread that really rounds things up 
  with this topic by explaining a real life example of how common sense might not make your life easier 
  all the time:
  
  [quote, Former Bank Employee, 'https://www.reddit.com/user/ituralde_[ituralde_]']
  ____
  Hey, former dev at a bank here.
  
  Being "better" isn't strictly right. This isn't just your professor being an asshole, I was on an actual 
  project that had pretty much this exact same problem.
  
  
  Project involved effectively automating some collateral value calculations. We were given a spreadsheet 
  with some sample values and were given the maths and were told to match output. We didn't bother to check 
  that the formatting rules truncated at certain point (at the millions). We get into UAT and the business 
  
negative.code: something negotiated in the contract underlying this particular calculation. In other words, even though it 
  represented (across the full range of clients for this tool) a multi-million dollar disadvantage, we were 
  still supposed to directly do it wrong.
  TL:DR it's not just your professor, sometimes it's your job to do it specifically wrong
  
  [small]#- By a former Bank Employee, https://www.reddit.com/user/ituralde_[ituralde_]#