Author: blass uri
Date: 02:36:42 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 05:15:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >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." I do not know if they will discover the things that I discover. The hole that I found in Rebel was also in Rebel Decade,Rebel7,Rebel8,Rebel9 but I know from Ed's response that no beta tester found it except me. I also believe that other beta testers did not think about part of my productive ideas for chess programs. Uri
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