- the storm evacuates most people, essential staff only
- Nedry deliberately creates the IT emergency situation to lock out the other IT people still on the island
- The book has more details about how the IT system was over budget/rushed/flawed as another example of the hubris of the whole endeavor.
The book has a detail I especially liked: theres an automatic dinosaur counting system but it was written such that it stops counting once it finds all of the expected dinos (because the spec said they couldn't reproduce), which delayed them realizing that the dinosaurs were actually mating and in a bunch of places they weren't supposed to be. Classic example of a bug caused by software working correctly exactly to the spec.
- the storm evacuates most people, essential staff only
- Nedry deliberately creates the IT emergency situation to lock out the other IT people still on the island
- The book has more details about how the IT system was over budget/rushed/flawed as another example of the hubris of the whole endeavor.
The book has a detail I especially liked: theres an automatic dinosaur counting system but it was written such that it stops counting once it finds all of the expected dinos (because the spec said they couldn't reproduce), which delayed them realizing that the dinosaurs were actually mating and in a bunch of places they weren't supposed to be. Classic example of a bug caused by software working correctly exactly to the spec.