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Re: FIRST is really looking into the Einstein problems

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Originally Posted by Taylor View Post
What you, and your team, experienced throughout 2012 certainly inhales audibly and I can't fathom what it's been like (I wouldn't want to). What Patrick said rings true.
I'm having trouble connecting the dots between Jane's post about learning from the engineering processes of problem solving, troubleshooting, and documentation to your taking it as an attack to your team.
Tragedies happened. We've learned from them, as individuals, as teams, as a community. Why choose to focus on the hurt and distress rather than embrace the lessons that have come? Everybody "cares about the robots" - otherwise we'd be doing science fairs. Otherwise there would have been no investigation, involving people across North America, some not even involved with the 12 Einstein teams Can't we also care about and celebrate the processes, the professionalism, the experience of healing?
Did the Eh-Team need to have their season ruined by someone trying to "make a point" about computer security for some people on the internet to learn about failure analysis, professionalism, and the experience of healing? No.

Us armchair QBs can say that we learned a lot and will put it to good use -- but did we really go through the process? I don't think we did.
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