rickdeveloper
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Comment · 2 years ago
I have seen the term "zero player game" used for this. There is even a short Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-player_game.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's an iPhone/Android app that does something similar: https://stats.fm
Comment · 4 years ago
Here's one that goes from right to left:
(2**(64 - i)) & (t*10)Comment · 4 years ago
Great read.
I think this is a good place to reference Tiny Projects [0], which to me are a manifestation of what is described here.
Comment · 4 years ago
He live streamed himself writing a lot of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmke957ki4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZpMMDvB1M
Comment · 4 years ago
The author did an AMA on Reddit 9 months ago that I think is relevant here: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...
In particular:
How they remain free: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...
On his salary: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.
Comment · 4 years ago
Author here. Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0]. I didn't know about the bookmarklet when I started this. Maybe I should have used that instead. Oh well.
I'm currently waiting for Mozilla to accept this into the add on store. If that passes, I will submit it to Chrome as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
Author here! It’s currently in review for Firefox and if that passes I’ll submit it to chrome as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think a lot of this is due to Google both owning search and the ads on the websites (AdSense). There’s an incentive for them to prioritize click farms (and other sites filled with their ads). I think in general there may be a correlation between the number of ads on a site and its usefulness to me, which is inverse to its usefulness to google.
I’m curious what would happen if those products were split up into 2 separate companies.
Comment · 4 years ago
NP :) It's exciting to have people using & commenting on something I build.
> I will look into fine tuning it for my needs. It is an interesting approach to a very annoying problem.
If a premium version were available with a customizable whitelist, would you pay for that? The API is around $5 / 1000 searches so it would cost about the same.
Comment · 4 years ago
Good idea! Would you pay for a premium version where you can customize the whitelist (and additional features) if it were available? Bing charges around $5 per 1000 searches, so I guess it would cost about the same. (Google's API is limited to 10K searches / day, even when paid)
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes! Maybe I'll build a premium customizable version out of it. Do you think that'd be useful? Bing charges around $5 per 1000 searches, so the premium version would be around the same (with caching covering hosting, maybe).
Comment · 4 years ago
> If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name
There is a form [0] on the about page that allows people to suggest websites to add :)
> p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
Thanks! I think this is gonna be disappointing from an engineering perspective, and certainly not article worthy :) As further explained in my other comments, the website is basically a wrapper around google programmable search [1] where I whitelisted a set of sites I found useful personally, plus some suggestions from other users. It's really easy to set up.
As to why, I will quote some other comments of mine:
"I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google."
"to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect the best results for queries related to those subjects). ... When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries."
Let me know if you have other questions!
[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf8lAoShQz7Wjl9h60...
[1] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview
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