"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Dumper FTW 435]

"The robot is horribly overweight. We need to delete some code"

Me to team member named Charlie: You're job is to make sure i don't mess up.
5 minutes later I try to tap a hole that I forgot to drill all the way through
Me: CHARLIE!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?


our engineering lead: Think not what a robot can do for you, but what you can do to get the sucker done. Now.

Mentor: What if we tried a turret idea?
Everyone in our workshop: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(We've had a lot of bad experiences with turret designs)



Rookie: What if we pulled up the tubes with suction?
Engineering lead: hahahaha. That would never work.
5 minutes later...
Mentor: We should do suction!!!!

(Our current design is to use suction. The rookie will never let us forget that it was his idea)

[andreboos]

Originally Posted by Dumper FTW 435

"The robot is horribly overweight. We need to delete some code"

On our team, 1's weigh more than 0's, regardless of the size of the code.

[FRC4ME]

Originally Posted by andreboos

On our team, 1's weigh more than 0's, regardless of the size of the code.

You know, back in the days of IFI we filled up the temporary storage areas a few times. I don't remember the specifics, but the solution was to randomly refactor the code and try again. If you split up a single calculation into multiple steps that still achieved the same result, it would somehow "fit" better.