AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I tend to get PDF workshop manuals, print off the pages I need for a task and put them in plastic pockets to stop them getting destroyed in the rain.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Aha thanks, a sneaky change from See SHEET to consult SHEET.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Hosting is on a $20/month Linode along with a bunch of other projects/sites/bits of code fluff. The actual bandwidth used by this site will be virtually nothing I imagine. I haven't valued my time at all. In that respect it is already ea
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
That was my initial thought but I have to see how the revenue scales. At the moment it's only profitable because my labour has had zero cost. It might scale quite nicely though - I think finding the right material is probably key.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
You're right - and also credit should go to the excellent http://bootswatch.com/ which is where I got the themed Bootstrap from. I'm a lover of Bootstrap but I hope it doesn't define the site.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
You're right about the pictures for sure, I need to add a few random pics and thumbnails for chapter headings. I focussed on SEO for starters and Googlebot doesn't see pictures, but now that I have people I need to think about actual aesth
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
You are right, the ads look absolutely shit - I could perhaps go with Buysellads when traffic picks up. Interesting idea - I'm a huge admirer of things that follow that model - Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial and Avdi Grimm's Object's On Rai
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I put in the comments because I thought it'd be an easy way of adding some content for free as people add to the information already there, and also to let people moan about errors so that I can then go in and fix them. Comments are a fair
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I had a look at the Schema stuff - I actually use it on another site of mine ( http://thebigeat.com ) for listings of takeaways, but it has made no difference SEO-wise and it tends to make my markup look like shit. But nevermind A/B test
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I'd welcome any suggestions on where to go next - it's a bit of a fire-and-forget side project, but I'd still like to get it as good as possible before I leave it to stew for 2013.
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Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website(howacarworks.com)
242 points by AlexMuir 14y ago|104 comments
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To the last man standing(alexmuir.com)
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Accessibility - Underappreciated(alexmuir.com)
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Thank you for your intelligent comment. It's a hard topic and even questions with easy answers end up descending into a moral and historical quagmire.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Comment deleted. Fuck it, I can't even be arsed. There's so much bullshit and so many wankers that come out of the woodwork when this sort of topic gets raised. I've flagged the whole story. HN is better without this sort of shit.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I'm not saying it will, but that it's more likely to. No-one knows what technology brings to the table. Eg. "it is not our intention to sell your photos" But what if some kickass image analysis startup emerges that can mine valuable data f
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
This is a completely different style of incident response than parent company Facebook's. I much prefer this (relatively) straight up approach, although I'll admit it's more likely to come back and bite them in the arse a few years down the
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Ask HN: Why do HNers 'submit and run'?
7 points by AlexMuir 14y ago|6 comments
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Books go in a box. Choose the size of box to accomodate the books. Don't do what everyone does and put all the heavy books in one box and all the bedding in the remaining five.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Awful, tragic things happen every day. Some can be prevented and some can't. It's highly unlikely that this is saddest thing to have happened in the world today. There are a certain percentage of people in the world who will kill people f
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
They just order what they reckon and are usually 10-15% under what they thought. We charged for what we actually stored so it worked out fine. Books and clothes are now the core of the business. When we started people all had hifis, 14" T
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I learnt to code when I set up almost exactly the same business ten years ago - http://www.thebigspace.co.uk I built it in PHP and MySQL and there was no MVC for me. It was a mess. It's been completely rewritten at least three times, an
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I never saw anything about this for some reason. I just found it quite interesting looking through there. For example, I typed 'dropbox' and found only one person searched for it: http://search-logs.com/user/9524039-power_of_attorney Th
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Searchable database of leaked AOL searches from 2006(search-logs.com)
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I don't really understand what's happening here. She's got orders, she seems to already have a design business and commissions, and there's talent aplenty. Let's go - get the fucking thing made and stack it into Harvey Nicols, Harrods and
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I actually like this idea. But the non-profit angle loses me entirely. Good luck though. There are also plenty of public domain films out there.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Assuming this poll got flagged down into oblivion. Pity as there was interesting debate here.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I don't disagree, but there's another side to this. It's happened in print for years - a review in June, a double page spread ad in July. But it damages editorial integrity and it dilutes genuine content. In print this doesn't really matt
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Jesus christ. How incompetent are the banks? Surely you're going to notice sudden repeated transfers to a (presumably foreign) bank account and at least query them? If these guys are able to open hundreds of accounts to spread out the fun
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Can you point to any current examples online? I'm not quite sure what this would look like. I know in the UK it's obligatory for an advertisement to be identified as such.

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