On Nov 17, 3:34 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Tim Smith wrote:
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> >> I see Roy has posted about that car that ran out of memory in the DARPA
> >> challenge, and Roy blames it on C#. If you actually read the story, they
> >> say it was a code bug, not a C# bug. The EXACT SAME THING would have
> >> happened if that program had been written in Java, or Perl, or Ruby, or
> >> Python, or Lisp.
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> >> Here's the bug. They allocated an object, and kept several references
> >> to it. When they were done with it, they did not release all the
> >> references, so of course garbage collection did not free the object's
> >> memory.
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> >> Why does Roy feel the need to misrepresent things like this?
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> > To what degree is this mis-representation?
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> > Micoshaft tools don't come with free checkers and the really
> > cutting edge tools that work at the cutting edge!
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> > With open source, the tools are there free and ready to go
> > to trap all kinds of errors; as well as produce documentation,
> > and run code in simulated environments like Qemu.
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> > The micoshaft environment just isn't competitive at the
> > cutting edge. Its leads to coding disaster after coding disaster and THIS
> > failure is just another one of MANY FAILURES waiting
> > to happen for anyone using micoshaft tools.
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> Just don't respond to Tim. He nitpicks on purpose and uses a sea of information
> that I share on the Web in order to find something that can be criticised.
> Here is his favourite Web page:
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> http://diggcomments.headzoo.com/Default.aspx?user=schestowitz
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> He just sits there, admittedly modding down comments systematically
> and 'corrects' me whenever I say something he disagree with. The tool above is
> called "Comment Stalker" and Tim definitely uses it (it was only days ago that
> a friend, msaleem, told me about this).
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> Let the trolls mod me down, post comments under new nyms (Gary Stewart has had
> at least 4 Digg account terminated) and they cite some of these comments in
> COLA as though they come from 'real' Diggers. They spread a lot of lies and
> slander there. Tim and the Gand have become worse there than they are in COLA.
> They found a new venue for trolling.
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> It would be best to just ignore them. Digg has blocklists, which are trickier
> to use than *plonking* and then using KNode's viewing filters.
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> ~~ Best of wishes
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Except in this case - he is totally correct. This had nothing at all
to do with MS or C#. It had to do with a bug in their code.
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Tom Shelton
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