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rickdeveloper

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About rickdeveloper

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    Comment #39164076

    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 .

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    Comment #35492807

    There's an iPhone/Android app that does something similar: https://stats.fm

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    Comment #31370560

    Here's one that goes from right to left: (2**(64 - i)) & (t*10)

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    Comment #30981921

    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. [0] https://tinyprojects.dev/

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    Comment #30853313

    He live streamed himself writing a lot of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmke957ki4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZpMMDvB1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAyw7OAcXDE …

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    Comment #29956778

    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: htt…

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    Comment #29954874

    Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.

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    Comment #29954861

    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…

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    Comment #29954692

    Author here! It’s currently in review for Firefox and if that passes I’ll submit it to chrome as well.

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    Comment #29782483

    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 wit…

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    Comment #29780370

    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…

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    Comment #29780345

    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 …

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    Comment #29780316

    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 …

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    Comment #29779925

    > 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 a…

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    Comment #29779763

    Here's a pastebin of the list I made yesterday [0] in a format that allows uploading to your own instance of programmable search. I have updated a few things since (like removing w…

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    Comment #29775225

    Thanks! Yes, it's configurable in a private dashboard. I created a pastebin with all sites at the time of writing this comment if that's helpful: https://pastebin.com/qLC0wQ0t . If…

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    Comment #29775170

    "It's a feature not a bug" (TM) The site uses a whitelist of URLs to (attempt to) keep results relevant to science and programming. In the context in which I'm using this search en…

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    Comment #29775076

    Thanks! Ads are added automatically by Google. The whole thing is little more than a wrapper around the 'Programmable Search Element Control API' which is an HTML element you can j…

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    Comment #29774949

    (obviously: this is subjective, so what's significant to me may not be to you.) Honestly I just created this search engine for myself to find things more easily while programming o…

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    Comment #29774823

    Glad you're interested in the source code! As explained in my other comment, this website is a wrapper around google programmable search. The actual searching happens on Google ser…

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    Comment #29774512

    I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in …

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    Comment #29773303

    I actually created "my own search engine" because of this: notrashsearch.github.io. It uses Google search tech under the hood (which I've found superior to other search engines), b…

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    Comment #29639647

    > If you want "spies" to use it, you don't want them connecting to known gateways. The best place to hide a tree is in a forest. If you have both 'normal' users and spies connectin…