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fwiw, I take sites like this and use chrome's option to make them stand-alone apps. (three dots -> more tools -> create shortcut -> open as window)

in reality, more often than you'd like, the proceeds of these projects go straight to scammers who don't actually have the rights to the source itself.

My dissertation used a lot of dask code, and I found it to be an amazingly powerful tool for helping me to glue a few dozen other libraries together and orchestrate them as a single distributed system. sure it's half done spark, but if it were fully done spark I couldn't have used it as flexibly.

as a warning, I've heard that the big spreadsheet makers considered this and eventually passed on the idea. I believe the logic is that spreadsheet users don't understand ML, and if you want to do ML, you probably know how to export a spreadsheet.

Tiny Acquisitions 5 years ago

I'm curious if there's a market for people who want to buy small projects like this. I imagine there's a lot of projects that are already on GitHub with a small following with owners that would like to cash out, but I'm not sure there's a market of buyers looking to pick up repos?

I really hope those grad students that she mentioned didn't get a couple years added on to their degrees as a result of this. I mean good on her for finding the error, but I can't imagine what it would be like to be told "cancel your thesis, I made a mistake and your work is now invalid."

I found this platform really easy to play around with when building a game. I put together a version of Hanabi, and the system was flexible enough to let me make player hands that are visible to everyone _except_ the player. Reconstructing this relatively simple game from scratch only took ~3h, and that is everything from finding royalty-free assets to writing the manual.

I use protos as configs pretty frequently. They have comments, easier syntax, there's a schema file the describes exactly whats expected. You can parse them from text, csv, or even awful binary, and use them in practically any language.