Paul Rogers [CE] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>>
*>> I saw the whole episode on the demolition teams. The guys with the
*>> battering ram beat the hydraulic arm- which just proves something that
*>> software engineers have known for a while- Keep It Simple, Stupid.
*>
*>You don't give them much credit. They took on a hugely complex task of
*>assembling a 20', multi-hinged, extensible, multi-hydraulic arm which sat
*>atop a swivel mount on an old truck found in a junk yard. Had they not
*>wallowed around in indecision before fixing the broken weld joints they
*>probably would have won. As it were, they were probably only a minute or so
*>behind the "beach boys'" battering ram contraption.
Well, even I was thinking that those guys way over-engineered the bloody
thing. The guest judge was found to be betting on the 'beach boys' too for
much the same reason. It was admirable, but another example of complexity
coming back to bite you in the arse.
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