Author: blass uri
Date: 01:55:07 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 02:32:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >When someone spends countless hours looking for a loophole, they may be a >whinging twit, but they are a useful one. Their goal may be to say, "HA HA!! I >beat your stinking pride and joy! See!" > >But you got a free tester, who through relentless unpaid work, found a hole that >needs patching. So you spend two hours and fix it and hope they do it again. > >Where I work, we pay our testers a lot of money. I think the ownership would >really gloat if they could get them to work for nothing more than an occasional, >"Hee-hee, I found a bug." I was in the past a beta tester of Junior and I found holes in the program. I found also after analyzing Rebel's game in the Isaeli league a hole in Rebel. I think that in most of the cases programmers cannot spend two hours to fix the hole. Amir Ban did not fix some holes that I told him more than a one year ago. Ed told me that he hope to fix the hole that I found in the next version so I guess that it is clearly more than 2 hours of work. I believe that I can help programmers by finding holes in their program and giving them ideas to help their program but I do not like to do it for nothing. I have also many ideas what to change when I am sure that part of them are productive for chess programs and I posted some of them here. I will agree in the future to be part of a team for a chess program only if I can get part of the money when it becomes commercial. Most of the job is of the programmer and I expect him(her) to earn most of the money. Uri
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