Is the Dropbox Datastore conflict resolution API just a broken, naive version of operational transformations? https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/56/how-the-dropbox-datastore-api-handles-conflicts-part-two-resolving-collisions …
@smarx unless I'm misunderstanding the post it's not applicable to hierarchical structures
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@bascule OTs don't work on hierarchical structures. Vector clocks ftw -
@strangemonad OT definitely works on hierarchical structures
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@bascule None of the data types supported by the Datastore API are hierarchical. -
@smarx so you have the complexity of OT without the applicability to hierarchical structures? -
@bascule Where do you see complexity that's not required? (What would a simpler solution look like?)
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