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Re: Be afraid... Be VERY Afraid

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Originally Posted by Garret View Post

In my opinion FIRST would be much cooler if more teams were trying these crazy new designs, rather than just making another WCD and doing stuff purely because "its what the Einstein teams do". I hate hearing people say that a team shouldn't do something because no teams on Einstein used it. Reasons a team should use those designs would be that they are what works for that team and because they would be the most effective for that challenge, not because some other really good team has done it so let's do what they do.
There's nothing wrong with investigating "crazy new designs" from a learning perspective, the reality is just that in real life when you get a job you don't innovate for the sake of innovating, you only do it when existing solutions do not provide the solution to your problem.

Innovative is also not synonymous with good, or indicative of sound engineering. Both are important.
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