Wasn’t that the joke? Iirc Hammond cut a fuck ton of corners.
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Noo it's just a movie about dinosaurs you can't just point out that it critiques science and capitalism, we love science and capitalism!!
I do rather like science.
What's wrong with the science in Jurassic Park? All of the problems in the park originate from underfunding security.
Bioengineering is inherently dangerous with a high likelihood of disrupting Earth's ecosystems, killing millions of people, etc. if you do something wrong. A key safety step, as they discuss in one of the movies, is making their organisms unable to reproduce so they can't increase their populations unchecked. Which they failed to do. In real life there are people creating new viruses and there is no amount of security that makes that kind of work completely safe.
It criticises science for profit. They literally invite various scientists who know their stuff and they all tell Hammond he's a fucking idiot. It's much clearer in the books, though, where you get to read where they notice all the enclosure mistakes that were made by Hammond's team.
That's a book thing more than a movie thing, IIRC. Hammond was more of an asshole cheapskate in the book.
Is the book good?
The book is better than the movie, and Jurassic Park is one of my favourite movies.
Books always seem to be better than the movie, however, movies can be fun. Books give you more information and lets you hear what people are thinking.
Hammond definitely works better as an unrepentant asshole in the book.
So the real monsters were the humans all along. Ugh so cliche. /s
Jurassic Park is a satirical comedy about capitalism. Hammond spares every expense. The first scene is a man being killed on the job. He built the park in a country with cheap labour and low safety standards. He essentially had 3 people running the park. They bred raptors just because they could and he put his own grandkids (a metaphor for the future) in danger due to his own hubris and ego. They are literally man made monsters in an amusement park created by exploiting nature using untested technology. The metaphor for the dangers of greed could not be more on the nose, and I'm baffled it isn't more commonly understood.
The main programmer got the job because of nepotism as well!
How dare you, Hammond is a kind old man with a dream! (and in the book he dies a pathetic death after everything's already mostly resolved)
My favorite part is when I have to take mandatory trainings on security and integrate automated scanners for vulnerable libraries, but none of our projects have funding to actually implement the basics, like encryption+authentication.
We have the mandatory security training at my company and they said it was going to be revised after a few of us showed how the advice it gave was insecure and incorrect!
In a bank we work for, there is a mandatory security training for employees, mandated by the parent supranational. The bank tried to correct the mistakes in the training or at least make the training optional, as the bank provides its own, more correct program. Rejected by the mother company, mandatory training is mandatory, even if it is wrong.
Ah-ah-ah! You didn't say the magic word!
It's a UNIX system. I know this..
There's a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven't run it in ages, though; I don't know if it's still functional.
I know :)
Sudo?
I feel personally attacked by this meme.
I thought they had more programmers, he was just the only one on site.
I think they did at one point, but during the plot he's the only one and he's working unpaid overtime, because he warned them when he signed his original contract that the system they wanted needed more engineers and more time but they didn't listen and then threatened him into working for free when the system wasn't ready at the end of his original contract. This is the direct reason why he committed the corporate espionage that caused the whole park to go fubar.
I grew up thinking he was the villain. Now, I know he was actually a hero.
The dinosaurs were right. /s
I mean... they were revolting against their capitalist slavers.
Yeah, I guess from a vegan perspective that doesn't factor in prey or wild animal suffering, they actually were the good guys. The scientists were slaving them, and the gruesome shit they did in return doesn't count because predation.
The good news, then, is the t-rex got away. Or at least maybe did. Relevant XKCD.
Why would they need documentation?: There's only one programmer. 😂
If there was documentation all over the place it would shatter my suspension of disbelief. It would ruin my dinosaur movie!
As long as there were unit tests.
all ray and hammond had to do was say the magic word. it's common courtesy really.
The counterpoint is that Nedry was hired to stand up infrastructure and is likely the one responsible for not properly staffing that effort. The CEO isn't going to know anything about that and will naturally defer to the people hired for those tasks. If Ned says it's all fine and he's coming in under budget, no reason to doubt him.
We all know lone wolf types which will hack together systems and pretend like everything is fine just so they'll never be bothered by the presence of others questioning their brilliance.
Hammond chose the cheapest contract bid for his computer system needs, choosing a contracting/consulting agency in Cambridge MA. Nedry worked for them and was responsible for fulfilling the contract. He complains about not getting paid enough personally and I doubt there was further room in the contract budget for more headcount.
Again, this was because Hammond went cheap on the contract. This is just one instance where he is repeatedly shown to be a cheapskate throughout the movie.
Yeah, I'm Nedry-pilled