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by gh1 9y ago
Some very good points indeed. Let me address them one by one. > Why should popularity automatically equate to quality? Popularity is the by far the best indicator of quality that I could find. HN, for example, also operates on this princ
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by gh1 9y ago
Yup, it is on Amazon now, and so are many other self published books.
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by gh1 9y ago
You can see that. On the pages that list books, there is a Python version filter. In desktops and tablets, it appears on the sidebar to the left. On mobile devices, the filter is collapsed and appears on the top right. On the book pages, th
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by gh1 9y ago
Thanks! I had a lot of fun making the site. I am also committed to keeping it comprehensive and updated. Made a powerful admin interface so that syncing would only take about 3-4 hours per week of my time. There's about 600 Python book
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by gh1 9y ago
That's actually a very good point because people are more likely to look for recent books. Will change that in the next update.
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by gh1 9y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That book came out very recently (a week ago?) and my database is a few weeks old.
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by gh1 9y ago
Glad that you find it helpful.
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by gh1 9y ago
Good point. I bump the ranks of the free books slightly to adjust for that. Similarly, for books that have multiple editions, I make some adjustments to avoid penalizing these books for fragmentation.
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by gh1 9y ago
Two Scoops of Django is one of my favorite books! As to how popularity score is calculated: I used the Amazon Bestseller Rank of the book to assign a score for popularity. This rank loosely indicates how many copies of the book were bought
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by gh1 9y ago
Thank you!
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by gh1 9y ago
The books in that section are topical books or reference books that contain a condensed introduction to Python in the beginning.
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by gh1 9y ago
I created PythonBooks as a side project. The website is a guided repository of Python books and currently lists the best 100 books. It classifies these books into fine grained categories and shows the best books in each category. It has fil
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Show HN: 100 Python books, categorized and ranked(pythonbooks.org)
150 points by gh1 9y ago|29 comments
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by gh1 9y ago
I created PythonBooks as a side project. The website is a guided repository of Python books. It classifies Python books into fine grained categories and shows the best books in each category. It has filters for Python version, free and non
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PythonBooks: Find the best Python books(pythonbooks.org)
4 points by gh1 9y ago|1 comments
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by gh1 9y ago
Congratulations on making this awesome fake website. I had a shit ton of fun going through it. You'd be a rockstar copywriter, if you are not one already.
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by gh1 9y ago
Thanks. I will take a look at these.
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by gh1 9y ago
Thanks. It's the most authentic portrayal of hacking that I have seen on TV.
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Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies, documentaries, tv series, animes?
3 points by gh1 9y ago|4 comments
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by gh1 9y ago
Yes, please do it. I am not affiliated with YC, but I have heard YC Partners mention many times that they encourage people to reapply. There was a case when someone didn't get in 7 times but got in on the 8th attempt.
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by gh1 9y ago
I joined the fidget spinner[0] craze about a month ago. Since then, they have been my constant companion at work. For those who don't know, a fidget spinner is a stress relieving toy that has become popular recently. I have a couple of
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Find top fidget spinners based on spin time, color, body material, shape etc.(spinnersearch.com)
1 points by gh1 9y ago|2 comments
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by gh1 9y ago
This depends on the rate at which you are making requests. If the rate is low, then Google doesn't bother. I have successfully scraped Google by waiting longer between requests.
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by gh1 9y ago
I tried this a couple of months ago. I could easily extract the url of the result using regex. However, this url was a redirect url with the domain google.com. At this point, I made one more request to this redirect url, followed the redire
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by gh1 9y ago
Just a text file in the beginning to write down the routine. It's a weekly routine which never changes. So after a few weeks, I memorized it.
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by gh1 9y ago
I used to be a victim of this myself. My solution to this problem (which works very well) is to lead a life of strict routine, where every hour is allotted for doing something specific. As I stuck to the routine, this whole overthinking thi
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Loader.io – Stress test your website for free(loader.io)
2 points by gh1 9y ago|0 comments
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by gh1 9y ago
Is there a way to enjoy all the advantages of the fb stack while preventing this breach of privacy? Would love to know how if someone has ideas.
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Page load scores for Facebook, according to Google(testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com)
1 points by gh1 9y ago|0 comments
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DuoCoder: Duolingo for programming languages(github.com)
1 points by gh1 9y ago|0 comments

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