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[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I'm saying if in the past 6 months, with all your practice you didn't get anything close to what you wanted done, why do you thin with only 6 weeks you will be able to accomplish this?

Do you really want to jeopardize your own success? That's your right to do so. But what about the rest of the team, too? Are you going to put your own demands and delusions above them?

What about your alliance partners? Do you really think they want to be your guinea pigs for autonomy tests? There's a match going on and they probably want to win it.

True, but remember, there are at least 8 programmers this year. I'm the only one attempting the automation, I'm sure all the other guys can write the robot code fine. Now that makes me sound like the black sheep but honestly I can say that I can write the full human controlling code in less than a week. May be I am selfish for trying this automation thing. I do not believe in failures. Even if I do not accomplish my full automation, there will be a big platform to work with during the automation mode. Also I learn from that experience that I can apply later on. And when my full automation does work as intended, the code written by the other programmers might not ever run because the robot would be stuck in the automation loop. May be I am just quixotic and being too idealistic. In my eyes, being idealistic is better than beating your self up because of your lack of self esteem.



About the guinea pigs that I call my alliance members. They are not the only guinea pigs, my whole life is a guinea pig.
Taken from JaneYoung's signature.

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

My whole life is a learning experience, it is inevitable that there will be people that are going to be guinea pigs in my life experience. May be I am stating it too harshly but this stage in my life is just a stepping stone. Its not the zenith of my life.

We are all guinea pigs for each other. From the experiences we all share, we all take something different from it.

edit:
I honestly don't care if we win a single match. I believe that this competition is about what we get out from the experience that matters not the win or loss. Because 30 years from now, it won't matter how many matches we won, what kind of costume we wore or any of that. What will matter is what we learned and how we use it.