On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 03:49:18 UTC, ketmar wrote:
Michael V. Franklin wrote:
[...]
judging from my several decades of expirience, bounties almost
never works. there are alot of reasons for that, but the fact
still stands: it is *almost* impossible to make something
happen with boundy. it may work by accident ;-), but i myself
wouldn't count on that. either bounty is too small ("hey, my
time worth much more! i'd better spend it playing
videogames!"), or it is too big ("hey, this is a Really Huge
Problem, if somebody wants to pay than much! that means that
i'll inevitably spend more time on that, and... the bounty is
too small. oops." ;-).
[...]
True, that's how Eric Niebler gets to work on Range V1, V2, V3 as
he was the only hired programmer by ISO CPP.