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by travisb 12y ago
That's a valid point, but not at all what I got out of the argument. I picked up primarily on the specific counter-strategy. It's certainly true that selfish mining strategy A which gave a 5% increase in results would lose out to
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by travisb 12y ago
The argument in that counterpoint seems to be as follows: 1. Assume that selfish mining doesn't work. 2. Because selfish mining doesn't work there will be fair weather miners who will only mine on whichever chain is furthest ahead
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by travisb 12y ago
There's a large number of dead projects in the distributed bug tracking field. There's a few live ones as well. See http://travisbrown.ca/blog.html#TooMuchAboutDistributedBugTr... for my summary of the situation.
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by travisb 13y ago
I use my Advantage directly on my legs without a keyboard tray. In that configuration the height of the Advantage is very nearly optimal. At least for me, it naturally puts my arms into an ergonomically suggested posture with my arms straig
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by travisb 13y ago
There are many different projects which implement distributed bug tracking[0], some better than others. The question of how much distributed bug tracking makes sense depends strongly on the structure of the project. If the project is develo
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Everything you ever wanted to know about distributed bug tracking(travisbrown.ca)
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by travisb 14y ago
That is one advantage of on-branch distributed bug tracking. One advantage you also get, which is more important on large projects, is knowing which bugs have had their fixes merged into the branch you are working on. This is a bit unwieldy
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by travisb 14y ago
The only way to convert from GPL to a different license is for all the copyright holders (approximately every contributor who has a single line of code in the project) to release a version with a new license. For projects with a small numbe
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by travisb 14y ago
This is but one example of an unfortunate bias I see in tech generally and the web specifically. A short name might be Not Invented Now syndrome. Not Invented Now syndrome is the tendency to dismiss technologies simply because they are not
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by travisb 14y ago
My take on the entire flat versus threaded discussion is that it boils down to a few facts. 1) Outside of computers people don't experience recorded threaded discussions Instead what they experience is much like a flat forum. Everybody talk