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Unread 27-02-2011, 03:24
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Re: why blame the programmers??

As electrical, it's your wires that pull out/mysteriously swap places, causing the code to go bad.

As a driver, you're the most hated person by the programmers. You tell them that the robot is broken, and it's a code problem (when a hard defensive maneuver took out a wire, say).

As a mechanical, you failed to design and build the robot to the code that the programmers had put together.

Because of all these, the programmers will say it's your fault.




Now, why blame the programmers? They're sitting right there, that's why! Everyone else is moving around trying to fix the robot.
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