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by beck5 13y ago
co-founder here. We do require that the university is paying for a licence before we show their logo. Also most of the time we get asked to add their logos there.
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by beck5 13y ago
drop me a support email on the site and we can have a chat, there are a few interesting things we could talk about.
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by beck5 13y ago
Interesting concept. There are a lot of cv builders on the market, building some high quality premium cv's could be a viable business but getting noticed is quite hard so pushing the LaTeX angle on the site might be a good way to find
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Ask HN: Hosting options beyond the reach of the US/UK government?
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by beck5 13y ago
To actually get to the site you need to go to http://www.koding.com , there didn't seem to be any link in the docs. The fact they publicly say its free does not strike me as a strength, how are they going to pay the bills to
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How to Unit test Node.js, using Mocks and Stubs(hoswald.com)
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by beck5 13y ago
The thing I really miss about my C# days is the automated refactoring. How good are the available refactoring tools for golang?
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by beck5 13y ago
Yes. My site www.sharelatex.com was built on nowjs originally, it taught me a good lesson in not trusting random open source projects. I moved over to socket.io about 4 months ago which has far bigger community so feel a bit safer.
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by beck5 14y ago
Here is the thing, I want a company to run my CI server, I am happy to pay for this service, yet private paid plans are still not available on Travis CI after a very long time. I know its always easy to say from the outside, but why are new
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by beck5 14y ago
I am actually very flattered that they say its a clone of my site ( http://sharelatex.com ) at the top of the read me, thanks! I think there are now about 107 different online LaTeX editors.
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by beck5 14y ago
(I work on the same site/problem as author) We would prefer node did not deal with the https, I actually did a previous blog post showing how performance degraded https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/posts/nodejs_http_vs_https.h... . Options l
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by beck5 14y ago
Hey creator of ShareLaTeX here, we didn't post on here (again) but we have been releasing a lot of new stuff since the last time the site was on the home page about 1 year ago to the day. Split view, command auto complete, multiple compiler
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by beck5 14y ago
What looks to be the next step which is nginx and lua based.
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by beck5 14y ago
Does this mean Hipache is likely to be dead in a couple of years?
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by beck5 14y ago
Sorry I don't fully understand, you can invite collaborators on sharelatex into the project via the project settings area. Free accounts are capped to having 1 collaborator (1 person + yourself). Please drop me an email henry.oswald at shar
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by beck5 14y ago
We don't have an automated way yet but there will be one eventually, most users are doing it add hock as you can import zip files easily. It is up to you which tool you want to use, sharelatex still lacks the git push and pull which may be
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by beck5 14y ago
Don't worry we are working hard to get all the functionality of ScribTeX fully incorporated into ShareLaTeX (git push & pull). We also have no long term plans on turning off scribtex while people still use it, but the focus is sharelate
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by beck5 14y ago
Yeah we do offer a LaTeX compile api (it's what powers scribtex and sharelatex). Drop us an email team at sharelatex.com and one of us will sort something out for you.
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by beck5 14y ago
Founder of http://www.ShareLaTeX.com here, the guys at writelatex have done a great job of making a new clear home page since last time they were on HackerNews ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385300 ) the example presentation and n
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by beck5 14y ago
Lua seems to be a bit of a sleeping giant in web development so it will be interesting to see what becomes of this. Momentum is vital, this is something node.js has in spades which is resulting in a very polished and robust product, great e
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by beck5 14y ago
I was in China just last month and was surprised how openly everyone circumvents the blocks. I stayed in a very large 25+ floor 4* hotel where the entire free wifi went through a VPN. My Chinese friend said the government turn a blind eye b
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by beck5 14y ago
I would start by spending a week or two wrapping the application in Acceptance tests (cucumber/capybara) just so when you do make a change you are able to quickly find out to a semi decent level of confidence things are ok. I would also rec
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by beck5 14y ago
Creator of http://www.sharelatex.com here. LaTeX collaboration and environment setup is a big problem, online collaborative environments are going to become more popular. The more of them out there the better so good luck to jdleesmiller
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by beck5 14y ago
Thanks for answering. I would still personally prefer to see some unit tests checking each function behaves as expected, this is not so much to prove that the thing works now but make sure it can be changed safely over the next few years so
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by beck5 14y ago
Also important to not fall down the hole in a couple of years where these shared libraries are being used all over the place and changing them becomes hard. Good to always question if they should be a module or perhaps their own api.
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by beck5 14y ago
load balancing websockets has been a pain of mine on sharelatex.com and I will have a good play with this. However one thing that jumps out at me is the low number of tests. There only appear to be a few Acceptance tests. For a serious bit
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by beck5 14y ago
I wrote a LaTeX syntax highlighter for it. I found the easiest thing was to copy and paste a simple one and build from there.
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by beck5 14y ago
That is living an fairly decent life. You could scrape on £1k a month if you really wanted to.
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by beck5 15y ago
The thing is when you are still going to be debugging in a different language, haml -> html, coffee -> js. As a CoffeeScript guy I think one of its main strengths is its harder to shoot yourself in the foot with is great for beginne
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by beck5 15y ago
Here is a copy of it on sharelatex.com - https://www.sharelatex.com/project/4f78ebb84bae4a991a00015e

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