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Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…
Your work is appreciated! <3
Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…
Neat projects! I'm curious, have you seen very much interest in eternum? I have an idea for a similar project, but I am not sure how many people are really interested in IPFS.
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I don't think the fact that your coin-flip martingale strategy didn't work is evidence that "there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run".
No, but over the long run, no betting system can guarantee a positive return. If you run enough simulations, you will inevitably lose. The Wizard of Odds[1] did a great piece on this and it's definitely worth a read. Also, if you believe to have a betting system that does work, VegasClick[2] runs a $30k wager against your $3k if your system can survive at least 11 of 20 200,000 round games. It's easy money. [1]: http…
In sports betting markets it is theoretically possible to make money, but very hard.
Twicsy (Twitter picture search) still gets around 1.5 million visitors per month, but nets no money. But I wouldn't call it sheer joy though, maybe sheer stubbornness? http://twicsy.com
But I don't mind, I am doing them for the sheer fun of it. I get to hack around with fun things and feel good about solving some problem. I get much of the same joy from the job I am doing now, so I feel less guilty about not having as much time for side projects as I used to.
Some things I've done/am-doing for for the sheer joy of it: - Pong for the Gameboy Advance - Java Swing 'framework' (Just started to be honest) - Python text editor
For my blog I mess around with other things such as: - Sending keystrokes to Minecraft to 'cheat' (this was years ago) - Dynamically building a GUI based on Model classes in Java (reflection hacks) - Scraping webcomic sites to store the comics locally
But, as long as you are having fun, what does it really matter what you do :-)
NextTrain: https://www.nextrain.co.za We have a fledgling train system in the Gauteng area of South Africa (this area includes Johannesburg and Pretoria). However, the only way to see train schedules is via a PDF (2MB) buried deep on their website. This was a quick weekend hack to show when the next train is for each of the stations, and some additional info.
Is this for the GauTrain? or normal MetroRail service?
I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API. https://api.iscanadafair.ca/ Given the sources of this data, I'm pretty sure I'm not even allowed to profit off of this. Not really a problem as I'd be doing this in my spare time anyway. The data-visualization side of it (e.g. https://iscanadafair.ca/data-visualization/example…
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Thank you! It depends on what you mean by "often", I guess often enough. I use Pastery all the time (especially the editor plugins), and all my developer friends love it too. I guess people use some of the other services too, for example I get lots of comments for Spamnesty. I don't really care enough to look, though, as I built them for myself or because I thought they'd be fun, or because I just wanted to make some…
I was just curious because many developers enjoy (and want) people to use the stuff they write. I was just wondering if/how you tried to market it or show it to more people.
It's always fun to meet people that we might not have talked to otherwise, since a lot of attendees are beginners who come from non-engineering backgrounds. And it's also a pretty good feeling at the end of the evening when people tell you they had a good time and learned of to program a little bit better.
I also found it surprisingly easy to setup : grab a few katas from exercism.io, create a group on meetup.com and find a local startup willing to host and provide free pizza in exchange for a bit of visibility in the community, and you're good to go.