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Unread 24-01-2011, 09:47
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Re: why blame the programmers??

As programmer I often get blamed with a lot of the errors on the robot. I find myself remembering what was said in Billy Joel's song Vienna "You know when your wrong but you don't always know when your right". I don't mind getting told that I messed up, because I probably did. What irks me is when I ask someone to check a system on the robot because I think it is electrical or mechanical and the rest of the team refuses to take five seconds to check, as well as prevent me from taking 5 seconds to stand up and look. That is without a doubt my biggest pet peeve of being a programmer. If you tell me I screwed up I'm more than happy to check, but that means that you should be nice enough to check when I say you screwed up. XD

Rant achieved.
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