Chief Delphi - Spotlight List

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Post	Quote	Username	Added By
	...why do programmers have a nesting habit?	Andrew Schreiber	RoboDesigners
	from time to time, we all need a good smack to make us see when we screwed up and did something we shouldn't have.	Andrew Schreiber	IndySam
	Sadly this bot uses better punctuation and capitalization than many on this site.	Andrew Schreiber	Molten
	if you need a hammer you use a hammer and not an oscilloscope.	Andrew Schreiber	IndySam
	Show me the mentor who has never built a bad robot and I'll show you either a new mentor, a liar, or Andy Baker.	Andrew Schreiber	Duke461
	Show me the mentor who has never built a bad robot and I'll show you either a new mentor, a liar, or Andy Baker.	Andrew Schreiber	Taylor
	Coaxial swerve modules with a suspension and differential aren't normal. But on Winnovation they are.	Andrew Schreiber	EricH
	Representing data in a good way is an art in its own right.	Andrew Schreiber	Hallry
	Let me live in my delusional world where minibots never happened and the Tetrix kit doesn't exist.	Andrew Schreiber	Billfred
	We will be stressed, we will be angry. But we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, we need to be role models and inspirations to students.	Andrew Schreiber	nitneylion452
	1114 is the definition of what a FIRST team should be. For anyone to say otherwise is disgusting to me.	Andrew Schreiber	avanboekel
	We need to celebrate great things because good enough isn't inspiring.	Andrew Schreiber	Akash Rastogi
	You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Our job is to make the horse thirsty.	Andrew Schreiber	Siri
	However, I am a firm believer in the theory that if you are pushing with a mecanum wheeled robot you are doing it wrong.	Andrew Schreiber
	Doing something reliably is better than doing something well occasionally.	Andrew Schreiber	Karthik
	FIRST is hard. It's supposed to be. We can't keep giving people a check and expecting them to succeed. We need to stop this model. It takes a village to raise a child but it takes a community to build a FIRST team.	Andrew Schreiber	joelg236
	We need to grow smart not grow fast.	Andrew Schreiber	SamC
	Students... be sure to drill air holes in the crate though. Maybe toss in some cheetos for the programmers.	Andrew Schreiber	EricLeifermann
	Remind me to wear my kevlar vest to any event you're at.	Andrew Schreiber	DeformedFedora
	I care that teams took some time to put in safe guards to prevent shrapnel hitting people because I'm selfish and I enjoy the use of all of my limbs.	Andrew Schreiber	DeformedFedora
	Glitter… lots of glitter.	Andrew Schreiber	Whippet
	Wait, crap... totally forgot that I needed to build an intake. :eek:	Andrew Schreiber	cmrnpizzo14
	You enjoy your pepperoni pizza, I'll enjoy my cheese and peppers, and we can both agree that people that like pineapple on their pizza, while strange... are completely entitled to their opinions.	Andrew Schreiber	Whippet
	There is a really bad trap most people fall into, when presented with data they tend to trust it. This is dangerous.	Andrew Schreiber	cadandcookies
	You mean how many Edible Data Analysis Metrics and Aggregated Measurable Entities (EDAMAME)?	Andrew Schreiber	Billfred
	When I'm hiring an intern "Award Winning VRC Notebook" isn't applicable. But "Award winning technical documentation" sure is.	Andrew Schreiber	gblake
	You can't observe things that aren't seen or reported.	Andrew Schreiber	dubiousSwain
	Want the TL;DR of it? Keep it simple, effective, and easy to use.	Andrew Schreiber	cadandcookies
	CIMs are NEAR indestructible and I <3 them for it.	Andrew Schreiber	Whippet
	CD is a forum provided by a group of people. You use it with their permission. Don't like it? Don't use it.	Andrew Schreiber	techtiger1
	You inspire your way. I'll inspire my way.	Andrew Schreiber	Whippet
	There's 2 things that are really hard in CS - naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.	Andrew Schreiber	MikLast
	Physics is weird sometimes, this is why we prototype.	Andrew Schreiber	GreyingJay
	If this doesn't show up in spotlight at some point I'm almost going to be sad.	Andrew Schreiber	PayneTrain
	it's possible, based on his widespread approval, that Frank is in fact a collection of kittens in a human suit	Andrew Schreiber	rtfgnow
	You can take my blocker... but you can never take my cheesecake!	Andrew Schreiber	Whippet
	Blue shirts are ALWAYS watching. And they have spies everywhere. Always be on your best behavior, and be polite to every volunteer at the event.	Andrew Schreiber	aryker
	Last I checked, this was a competition... just checked again, yup still has Competition in the name.	Andrew Schreiber	rtfgnow
	Welcome to The 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition: Bureaucracy Bash!	Andrew Schreiber	Brian Maher
	A wet noodle of a chassis won't matter how much drop you have.	Andrew Schreiber	CalTran
	But sometimes you just wanna build something that's MFD.	Andrew Schreiber	Collin Fultz
	I think this post is a lot of words saying "My name is Billfred and I approve MiniBots 2017"	Andrew Schreiber	Logan Byers
	Excuse me while I rant on your comment here a bit.	Andrew Remmers	BobbyVanNess
	Titanium is almost twice as heavy as aluminum. I can have the bragging aspect of making a bullet resistant robot, but if someone is coming into a competition and shooting my robot, I have more important things to worry about!	Andrew Blair	Billfred
	If I had a dollar for every time I thought we'd get a legitimate hint....Well, I might have a few dollars...	Andrew Blair	Billfred
	We don't want "The Flame Heard 'Round the World"...	Andrew Blair	Billfred
	I urge them to build the kitbot and repeateadly smash it into a concrete wall in order to sate their anger. It will soon wane when they manage to do more damage to the wall than to the kitbot. That is honestly the reason that we ended up using the kitframe this year.	Andrew Blair	JVN
	These are threads, and they are what hold the community together...so CD must be a threaded fastener right?	Andrew Blair	petek
	I have no defined complaints, and I have no solution. I simply have mixed feelings.	Andrew Blair	Rick TYler
	Some of the most talented people in the world are designing robots in FIRST. If that were taken away, all of us would be poorer for it.	Andrew	RogerR