Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 02:15:33 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 04:55:07, blass uri wrote: >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. It was hyperbole. Sometimes, it really is like that but it is rare. >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. Priorities. It may be that fixing the hole will actually make the program weaker overall. >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. And yet the lineup of free beta testers will never end for chess programs. If one man does not want to do it, ten more will take his place. For how long, I don't know. So (as we country folk say): "Make hay while the sun shines."
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