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Subject: Re: Which style is best for ProDeo 1.0 ?

Author: Ingo Bauer

Date: 03:09:34 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 05:35:47, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On August 03, 2004 at 05:05:49, Ingo Bauer wrote:
>
>>Hi Thorsten,
>>
>>as a beta tester please put some "Butter zu die Fische". It would be nice if you
>>would tell us which style is best instead of telling us that the default style
>>is crap!
>
>
>i can't put Butter by the Fische :-))
>
>Instead of reacting when you send a programmer a new setting he posts religious
>or any other stuff in CTF.
>
>Programmers do not behave normal.
>
>When you sent chris whittington a fax telling: there is a big bug when doing a
>promotion, the fax will be print out and the paper rolls into the trash.
>
>maybe the cleaning woman when cleaning the room finds the paper with the "bug".
>
>maybe a worker in the company who is not as stupid as the programmer finds the
>paper and tries to REPRODUCE the situation.
>
>he then cannot reproduce the "BUG" and throw the FAX again into the trash.
>
>Next championship it is Mate in 4 and you only have to promote into a queen.
>But the program will not promote into a queen. it loses the game because it
>promotes into a knight. Jan Louwmann runs arround and is very happy smiling
>because this "programmer he always said is an idiot" loses because of a bug.
>Chris Whittington will come back from getting a cup of coffee will not
>understand in the first 60 seconds that this mate in 4 was a loss due to a bug.
>
>the paper in the trash. had all the information 3 weeks before the championship.
>but nobody read it, despite the cleaning woman and a worker in the company who
>came to the conclusion that he cannot reproduce the "bug".
>
>programmers do not work like a swiss clock. they are very complex people.
>
>some do not asnwer emails for at least 6 month. then you get an aswer saying
>that your style is complete madness. and then they come out with a style against
>shredder that loses 1-9.
>
>thats how reality works.
>
>
>>Bye Ingo
>>
>>PS: Except all styles are crap, then it is better to be silent :-)
>
>
>in opposite to you i have tried in the last 6 months to find a better style.
>so don't tell me that i had to be silent about a topic i did for a long time
>while you worked with the program for few days by now.


1. It seems you have some bad experience with programers.
2. See answer abouve!

Ingo



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