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Re: Roy misrepresents yet another news story

____/ 7 on Saturday 17 November 2007 22:16 : \____

> Tim Smith wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Why does Roy feel the need to misrepresent things like this?
> 
> 
> To what degree is this mis-representation?
> 
> Micoshaft tools don't come with free checkers and the really
> cutting edge tools that work at the cutting edge!
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

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:

http://diggcomments.headzoo.com/Default.aspx?user=schestowitz

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).

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.
 
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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