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by beck5 15y ago
7digital .Net & JavaScript devs, Sys Admin - London UK 7Digital is electronic media company (music and books), our API powers Samsung Music, Blackberry, Ubuntu our own website and loads more. Now also do ebooks powering services like Wa
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by beck5 15y ago
I have had multiple people tell me that my site ( https://www.sharelatex.com ) has helped with this, firstly more advanced people are able to help learners, also the environment is already set-up. The LaTeX wikibook is he best place I went
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by beck5 15y ago
The problem with ShareLaTeX is the compiling of the latex documents, compiling a pdf may take a few seconds, if 10 people do that at the same time then things start to slow down....
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by beck5 15y ago
Makes sense when you get a bit bigger, for me a load balancer would just about double my hosting costs at the moment. Probably the difference between a weekend project like ShareLaTeX and a startup of 4 people.
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Being on HackerNews, One week on(sharelatex.com)
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by beck5 15y ago
I've not looked properly but future suport is quite important. I have been upgrading to bootstrap 2.0 and there are a lot of breaking changes, having future versions available would be something I would want to see, even if it requires and
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by beck5 15y ago
This is great. I would love a nicer home page for http://www.sharelatex.com . I looked at ones on theme forest but didn't want one framework for my homepage and one for everything else. Will defiantly look at what comes up there. On steali
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by beck5 15y ago
Its not a given but it is doable, the main/basic line of defence is using a chroot jail and having nothing in that root of any interest/value. When I get chance I will do a blog post on it.
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by beck5 15y ago
I am still getting some styles ready on the site. It all got very popular a bit to early for me!
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by beck5 15y ago
please get in contact hacman, i've not closed any doors yet. The code still needs lot of polish and work but I am defiantly interested.
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by beck5 15y ago
Interesting on redis, I already use it to store sessions. A friend talked about have 2 ques, only process free que when premium is empty as well. When I get a chance to breath I will look into the price levels in more detail. I would ideall
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by beck5 15y ago
Great feedback thanks: Yep right again, I should try and make money. What price points would you think is acceptable? I was thinking around $4/mo $35/yr. Great idea on PAYG, a one off project for $7 which could actually get a lot of sales,
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by beck5 15y ago
On the todo list, thanks.
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That is a problem tbh. At the moment my number 1 objective isn't to make money but we will see what the service costs me to run. Ideas for things for premium - unlimited private projects / free accounts only have public projects like cloud9
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by beck5 15y ago
this may be of interest, I've been chatting to the author today actually. https://db.usenix.org/events/leet10/tech/full_papers/Checkow... The site is secure but can always do better.
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by beck5 15y ago
You are right about people just moving projects in and out. Another option is to follow Cloud9's lead and have public projects for free and private available to premium. There are other things to limit like number of collaborators however i
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by beck5 15y ago
Yep its pdflatex, could you let me know which project that is so via the feedback form so I can investigate?
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by beck5 15y ago
Pleased to hear it wasn't a mad idea to build the site! I don't personally write the vim command and tbh they are just vi movement bindings which come along with the ace editor - http://ace.ajax.org/ I am an avid vim user and I would also
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by beck5 15y ago
Having individual user paths with style files and other packages is something I have thought about. I think for my premium account I will probably only offer unlimited accounts and perhaps continuions compiling behind the scenes looking for
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by beck5 15y ago
Well I only half know what that means as well, bit of a buz word. I basically mean you need to see things happening in real time. Stolen from another comment I made about writing latex: "writing LaTeX is different from code for many reasons
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by beck5 15y ago
yep just wen down for about 2 mins. Back up now. getting on HN was not planned at all!
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by beck5 15y ago
Git is the best if you are working on LaTeX by yourself, I wrote my dissertation last summer using it extensively. However writing LaTeX is different from code for many reasons, for one if you write a new class in e.g. c# all other classes
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by beck5 15y ago
Thank you, I am always happy to abuse a contact ;)
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by beck5 15y ago
Latex lab development seemed to have stopped over a year ago before they implemented real time collaberation, if it had continued I would have not have started sharelatex.
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by beck5 15y ago
massive get out clause, its 3am in London and I have been drinking I have looked into pdf.js and semi implemented it however it was only really worth it for firefox users, other browsers generally had a better experience natively, not tha
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by beck5 15y ago
Good point, security is vital to this (hence everything is https). I will be looking into this.
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Unfortunately no, that brings in a world of Complexity which Im not planning on dealing with. www.scribtex.com offers a git based interface for offline work which may suit.
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Ha ha, hello John! I have since left the land of ec2 and this is running happily on a small linode instance, found it much faster for my monry. Yes my db's are in a totally different datacenter to my server but I don' think the site is that
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by beck5 15y ago
You can download the source files with maybe 2 clicks? (settings -> download zip). There is no version control at the moment. I am working on how to implement this and diffs in a user friendly way soon. Basically git is not the answer f
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by beck5 15y ago
Thank you very much, this is quite surreal to see it on HN getting good feedback!

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