Devcoin

[twobits]

What is Syntax? I can't find a link that says that...

love my little syntax page

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax

Does the wiki have plugins for other markups?  I for one would like to see markdown supported.

[shadypepe]

a question, i probably didn't understand something: i see a lot of "1" shares in the receiver files, but shouldn't all these be 3 or 4 because of the signing bonus? when will that be paid?

[Balthozar]

a question, i probably didn't understand something: i see a lot of "1" shares in the receiver files, but shouldn't all these be 3 or 4 because of the signing bonus? when will that be paid?

I too would like to know this. I am assuming it is because the script only accounts for word and picture counts and not something issued by someone else.

[Balthozar]

Also, can someone link to the daily script run page?

[FinShaggy]

Also, can someone link to the daily script run page?

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=daily_script_results

[killerstorm]

There is nothing missing...

What happens is...
Easy to understand, or funny brings the quick unique traffic.
Block text, Philosophy, ideaology gets leftover traffic, and long term traffic.

You should think in terms of traffic sources. Basically, we have:

1. search engines
2. (external) links
3. returning visitors (e.g. bookmarks)
4. viral

You seem to assume that all new content gets some visitors, but it is simply not true. Suppose you post something "easy to understand or funny". Unless it is absolutely outstanding, you will have no viral traffic. If you do not have a fanbase, you have no returning visitors. Also no links and no traffic from search engines because it is (likely) not unique

So you end up with approximately no traffic.

Scientific topics and such might get something from search engines, and if they are of a high quality they might grow some links.

However, things are different if somebody posts something truly outstanding and unique: that page will have a lot of viral traffic, and virally growing links to it.

It is also possible to leverage existing fan base... For example, if you happen to have some twitter following, you can post links to your articles on devtome and they'll get some pageviews...

So it is much more complex than cats vs. philosophy.

[FinShaggy]

There is nothing missing...

What happens is...
Easy to understand, or funny brings the quick unique traffic.
Block text, Philosophy, ideaology gets leftover traffic, and long term traffic.

You should think in terms of traffic sources. Basically, we have:

1. search engines
2. (external) links
3. returning visitors (e.g. bookmarks)
4. viral

You seem to assume that all new content gets some visitors, but it is simply not true. Suppose you post something "easy to understand or funny". Unless it is absolutely outstanding, you will have no viral traffic. If you do not have a fanbase, you have no returning visitors. Also no links and no traffic from search engines because it is (likely) not unique

So you end up with approximately no traffic.

Scientific topics and such might get something from search engines, and if they are of a high quality they might grow some links.

However, things are different if somebody posts something truly outstanding and unique: that page will have a lot of viral traffic, and virally growing links to it.

It is also possible to leverage existing fan base... For example, if you happen to have some twitter following, you can post links to your articles on devtome and they'll get some pageviews...

So it is much more complex than cats vs. philosophy.

You are mistaken, it is not Cats Vs. Philosophy, it is Easily/Quickly Readable VS Needed.

Things that are quick and easy to read, will get more instant views than something that people will look at when they are attempting to write papers, simply because more people are looking to be entertained than educated.

I am not just making things up, this is my experience.

[FinShaggy]

It is also possible to leverage existing fan base... For example, if you happen to have some twitter following, you can post links to your articles on devtome and they'll get some pageviews...

I know how this all works

I'm not guessing, I am just letting people know things.

[Balthozar]

Okay, so... I have a problem. I JUST finished writing my page on Sigmund Freud, and it says that I can't save it because of : Your change was not saved because it contains blocked text (spam). I use the word Anal and Anal Retentive... does devtome not like anal   ?

EDIT: Also I use the word penis.

[FinShaggy]

Okay, so... I have a problem. I JUST finished writing my page on Sigmund Freud, and it says that I can't save it because of : Your change was not saved because it contains blocked text (spam). I use the word Anal and Anal Retentive... does devtome not like anal   ?

EDIT: Also I use the word penis.

That happened to me also when trying to post about: Tupac, Ska Pastora and a few other things.

[Balthozar]

Okay, so... I have a problem. I JUST finished writing my page on Sigmund Freud, and it says that I can't save it because of : Your change was not saved because it contains blocked text (spam). I use the word Anal and Anal Retentive... does devtome not like anal   ?

EDIT: Also I use the word penis.

That happened to me also when trying to post about: Tupac, Ska Pastora and a few other things.

Did you ever get around it? The words are being used appropriately in accordance with the subject matter, so I don't get it.

[Balthozar]

Okay, so... I have a problem. I JUST finished writing my page on Sigmund Freud, and it says that I can't save it because of : Your change was not saved because it contains blocked text (spam). I use the word Anal and Anal Retentive... does devtome not like anal   ?

EDIT: Also I use the word penis.

I replaced the six counts of penis with male extremity, and it still says I have spam.

[FinShaggy]

Okay, so... I have a problem. I JUST finished writing my page on Sigmund Freud, and it says that I can't save it because of : Your change was not saved because it contains blocked text (spam). I use the word Anal and Anal Retentive... does devtome not like anal   ?

EDIT: Also I use the word penis.

That happened to me also when trying to post about: Tupac, Ska Pastora and a few other things.

Did you ever get around it? The words are being used appropriately in accordance with the subject matter, so I don't get it.

Nope. Just wrote a new article instead.

[Balthozar]

Still looking for some insight to this problem. It is a very well structured page, and I spent a lot of time on it. I won't allow it to go to waste.

[jasinlee]

Still looking for some insight to this problem. It is a very well structured page, and I spent a lot of time on it. I won't allow it to go to waste.

Copy it to notepad, I will look into which setting is causing it.

[metazilla]

a question, i probably didn't understand something: i see a lot of "1" shares in the receiver files, but shouldn't all these be 3 or 4 because of the signing bonus? when will that be paid?

I too would like to know this. I am assuming it is because the script only accounts for word and picture counts and not something issued by someone else.

The signing bonuses are in another file. I was actually meaning to talk to the daily script guy about including those. As far as I can tell, this is the most up-to-date source: https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bounty_23.csv

I'm curious what people thought about my idea a few pages back: there should be a dedicated site with 1) a section devoted to explaining how the shares work, how valuable shares were in the past, and a section (updated daily) showing how many shares are slated to be distributed in the next round, and 2) a section listing all the bounties, a section where people can propose bounties and vote on the amount of shares each bounty is worth.

I'd propose a bounty for such a site, but I would love to work on this, so I don't want to be too biased.

[termhn]

Script run for today will come a bit late sorry about that.

[markm]

TL;DR: Return readership / fan base!

Unique content is undermined by the copyright requirements of the devtome.

Anything on devtome can be freely copied elsewhere.

So, anything so unique that its sheer uniqueness makes it valuable should presumably be among the first things that people will use that freedom-to-copy clause on, promptly making it non-unique by "borrowing" it to put somewhere where hopefully it will get more traffic than it gets sitting among the mixed bag of content found on devtome.

That is a lot of why I have been aiming at content that is so byzantine that you'd pretty much have to clone the entire wiki to try to actually capture its intricacy, the depth and inter-woven-ness that makes it so deeply engrossing and take thousands upon thousands of pageviews to understand. (Any one person would need to view many many many pages to even begin to understand even just some tiny fraction of the vast byzantine "rabbit-hole" into which they have fallen or could potentially fall by getting lured into browsing the devtome.)

And even then, as someone already mentioned, merely reading only the devtome STILL isn't enough to really grasp it! You need to interact with players, or run certain free open source games using certain modules, or gosh knows what else to ever really penetrate the "fourth wall" and enter into the thing enough to really hope to grok it!

This is partly motivated by the "alternate reality gaming" concept, in which anything anywhere could be part of the (or a) game, and all things everywhere are co-opted into the game as part of the game or backdrop for the game or location involved in the game and so on. Such games are intended to be pervasive and all-engulfing. The term "rabbit-hole" has been used to characterise encounters where some aspect of such a game can, at least by observers who are "in the know", be observed.

Typically all the fictional websites mentioned in the game turn out to actually exist on the real internet, all the phone numbers and addresses characters in the game, companies in the game and so on are said to have turn out to actually exist here on the planet known as Earth, domain names mentioned turn out to actually exist and to be registered to the fictional entities that, in the game, are said to be the owners of that domain and so on.

Total breakdown of "the fourth wall".

Given such a game, any topic whatsoever is perhaps best looked up through a "rabbit hole" or in general a site imagined to have some, however tenuous, possible or potential or tinfoil-hat-theorised connection to the game because any other sites on whatever topic you might want to read about are less likely to contain "easter eggs", clues pertaining to the all-pervading all-engulfing game, and suchlike bonus layers or snippets of interesting or useful or intriguing data over and above whatever possibly very mundane topic you are looking up.

Wikipedia, for example, might be a great place to read about, say, Group Theory (Mathematics), if you are not involved in a game wherein Group Theory (Mathematics) has some bearing upon Chronodynamics (a technology some planets purportedly are researching right now that, some speculate, could lead to advantages in war and combat or even just in economics...)

Thus really it maybe makes less and less sense to read about anything anywhere else than a rabbit-hole simply because any other place really does not comprehend the Grand Nexus Uberplan in which our puny world, in its possibly rather backwater galaxy, is embedded...

-MarkM-

[psybits]

I propose a Devtome twitter and facebook account - which both autoupdate / autopost from the Devtome RSS feed when new articles are added.

I am more than happy to set this up if someone can tell me where to get the Devtome RSS feed  

I'm also happy to do some SEO work for Devtome generally, such as some high quality backlinking etc. I would need to invest a little for a decent SEO campaign but if there is a bounty for the above I am more than happy to do my part.

[twobits]

But presumably that is merely cosmetic, the array of IPs-as-integer should work with decimal integers too assuming that is actually what they are showing there.

So, using their page on our four stable node IPs, I have arrived at

Code:

unsigned int pnSeed[] =   
{
        3331996855, 3331996733, 1815951733, 84535656,
};

But... was your version backward deliberately?

Does pnSeed actually need a bytewise-reversed version (different-endian, or something) ?

Yes,  as the bitcoin code is written to be unfortunately dependent on x86 byte order, instead of the network byte order and do conversions as needed.

As for it being cosmetic, I don't know about you but I can convert each byte of the quad over and get the integer dotted quad form in my head using the hex notation, but just can't manage it with the integer one, so for debugging
I find the hex a far better notation to use.


Here I made a q&d tool for you to use if you dont like doing it in your head.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Twobits twobit integer dotted quad to reverse hex convertor
#  designed for q&d use to put seeds into pnSeeds in *coins

my $ip;

if (@ARGV) {
    $ip = shift @ARGV;
} else {
    print "Enter an (dotted quad) ip address: ";
    chomp( $ip = <STDIN> );
}

printf "0x%08x\n",  unpack 'N', pack 'C4', reverse split '\.', $ip;