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   by topcat31 16y ago

   Awesome! Let's get in touch, I love playing squash too :)
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   I love this site - as a recent coding n00b (see http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001 ) having mentors around is invaluable. Whether it's just offering advice or actually helping you write some jquery having someone to bounce ideas off is essent
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   I love the concept for this, finding friendly hackers to help you on your hack project is massively useful
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   Thanks for sharing the video Matt - I wrote a summary of my thoughts from an SEO perspective here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/summary-of-the-futuresearch-talk-... I was fascinated by Bing's hints that an author's authority might not be ti
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   I completely disagree with both the premise and conclusion of this blog post. I'm a complete coding noob ( http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001 ) and along the way to learning programming have relied on StackOverflow for about 10 questions. For
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   Google gathers lots of user data on 3rd party websites via services such as (to name a few): - Google analytics (opted in for data sharing) - Chrome - Google toolbar @Matt Cutts - I'd love it if you could confirm exactly which user data you
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   Wearing Contact Lenses For Fun And Profit(tomcritchlow.com)

   1 points by topcat31 16y ago|0 comments
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   by topcat31 16y ago

   I also work at Distilled (I'm also the guy behind 7bks.com in my spare time) and can vouch that we are the good kind of SEO :) I'd love to work with more HN people! Come apply if you're in London or Seattle.
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   Building a category/tag feature for 7bks.com using the Amazon BrowseNodes API(stackoverflow.com)

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    by topcat31 16y ago

    The answer to this is quite simple: Revenue ~ $100 so far but I've barely had any real lists added (plenty of geeks have added lists saying "testing" etc etc). Now that V2 is live I'm going to put a lot of work into building a solid communi
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Clearly I like big bold design. There's no doubt about that. That said, I see your point and I think it's a really hard balance to strike. I don't think I've gotten it right yet and actually I've found the front-end design the hardest part
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Hey - you're right. That's because I only just launched the new site and all the top lists from the past week are old lists created before images were possible! I know the site isn't looking too consistent the moment but I'm really pleased
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Thanks for posting this Will. I think this quote from my original post rings more true than ever: "Learning to code is like learning anything from scratch; at first it's mind numbingly difficult. For example, when I first started learning W
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Great read, I'm in a very similar boat - I started learning to code about 10 weeks ago from scratch ( http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001 ). It's immensely rewarding, but then I really enjoy learning new things generally. I don't think programm
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    The Space Hackers Are Coming(dougald.posterous.com)

    2 points by topcat31 16y ago|0 comments
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Count me in :)
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Great advice all around here - personally I'm a big fan of not "doing" seo but instead just making sure things are running in an SEO friendly manner.
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Because I suck at design and I needed to fill the space :-p
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Hey, I'm the creator of 7books :) Embeddable lists are definitely on my roadmap. Drop me an email (tom@) and let me know exactly what you want and I'll see if I can build it for you!
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Yep, sure will. I'm planning a follow up post when I get a chance
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Yep - I know I should do that. Brings with it a few issues but I'll try and migrate over at some point - same with blog posts, I'd love to use slugs rather than numbers.
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    I have no idea what a CSS framework is but I'll put it on my todo list to find out! Thanks :)
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    I'm really new to this so not really sure. When you enable billing your free limits increase (weird I know) and I don't think I've actually incurred any costs as a result. I don't really know how well optimised my site is so it may be that
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Thank you very much for taking a look. Very reassuring to know I didn't mess anything up too bad :)
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Umm - I don't use any book images on my site so I'm not sure if perhaps you're confused with another of the sites listed here?
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Ooh, this looks right up my street and I love GEB. It's one of the books that changed my life!
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Frankly I have no idea :) Having only just launched I don't know what the market looks like. I strongly suspect that the site will end up gravitating towards one kind of user. But who knows! 22books.com (mentioned below) gets used by quite
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Heh - indeed :)
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Thanks! Yes I definitely want feedback on the coding. I'm hungry to learn more and that's why I put the code on github. My email add is on the site - please let me know what I'm doing wrong :)
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    by topcat31 16y ago

    Thank you sir :)