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by jpallen 10y ago
Regarding the annotation features of Google Docs, this is something we're beta testing at the moment: https://www.sharelatex.com/beta/participate . Come and give it a shot and let us know what you think!
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by jpallen 10y ago
I can't give exact numbers, but we have a conversion rate in the (very) low single digits. It's plenty to support our costs and development team though (we're purposefully optimised for a healthy cash-flow positive business,
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by jpallen 10y ago
If you haven't seen, we're about to make these collaboration features even more powerful! Come join the beta if you're interested: https://www.sharelatex.com/beta/participate
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by jpallen 10y ago
We haven't taken any VC funding
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by jpallen 10y ago
This is awesome, great job! How long before we can write ShareLaTeX in ShareLaTeX? ;) I once got as far as writing and http server that used the flexibility of TeX macros to turn headers like 'content-length:' into TeX commands th
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by jpallen 10y ago
ShareLaTeX (www.sharelatex.com) | DevOps | UK | REMOTE | www.sharelatex.com We're looking for someone for a DevOps role at ShareLaTeX, which is an online LaTeX editor with over 1 million registered users. We help academics collaborate
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by jpallen 10y ago
ShareLaTeX (www.sharelatex.com) | UK | REMOTE | DevOps We're looking for someone for a DevOps role at ShareLaTeX, which is an online LaTeX editor with over 1 million registered users. We help academics collaborate more effectively, and
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by jpallen 10y ago
I plan to charge a small monthly (possibly yearly) fee to cover hosting, yes. If there's demand for the front-end being open sourced, then yes. I suspect that the people who'd be willing to host the front-end would have an easier
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by jpallen 10y ago
That would be amazing, thanks!
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by jpallen 10y ago
I set up academic.bio to try to make it easy for academics to have a website without needing to learn anything new (html, Jekyll, github, etc) and without the complexity of WordPress et al. I want to keep it all open though so you still &#x
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Show HN: Academic Bio – A simple static site generator for academic webpages(my.academic.bio)
113 points by jpallen 10y ago|41 comments
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Show HN: A simple front-end to Jekyll to create and publish academic websites(my.academic.bio)
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Ask HN: How do you stop email being a single point of failure for security?
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by jpallen 10y ago
>> In fact, we wrote the LATEX source text of this paper using an experimental collaborative text editor that is based on our implementation of this CRDT. We are making the character-by-character editing trace of this document availa
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by jpallen 10y ago
Indeed, and one of the reasons is the success of ShareLaTeX means that it takes our team's whole attention to keep up with the growth of ShareLaTeX, and keep investing in feature development to keep up with demand. ShareLaTeX isn'
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by jpallen 10y ago
The short answer is we didn't find product / market fit. It made some people happy, and was useful to some people, but it didn't make people go out and tell everyone they know to start using it. ShareLaTeX on the other hand w
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by jpallen 10y ago
In our defence, this post has had more than twice the attention of our Show HN post! I think there's more drama in something like a shutdown and so it's more 'viral'. Getting people to take interest in a new product is m
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by jpallen 10y ago
DataJoy Co-founder here. A lot of the DataJoy code IS available ( https://github.com/sharelatex/web-sharelatex/tree/datajoy ). Our other product ShareLaTeX has an open-source version that you can run locally an
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by jpallen 10y ago
Take a look at /r/bodyweightfitness: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness . They've put together a routine for beginners that is excellent: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfi
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by jpallen 10y ago
Exactly! That's what I meant by "possibly both, but only one at a time". At the moment you're in group (a), but might shift to group (b) later. I'd guess that if and when that shift occurs, we'd lose you as a p
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by jpallen 10y ago
Possibly slightly, but it's outweighed by the benefits of having an open-source self-hosted option (both for our business model and the greater good of the world). Our working hypothesis is that people fall into one of two categories (
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by jpallen 10y ago
Thanks for the review/feedback! You've identified two things that we've put a lot of work into at ShareLaTeX: Good real-time collaboration, and fast good PDF previews. Getting these right have been core to the whole product -
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by jpallen 10y ago
ShareLaTeX Co-founder here. I'm glad that it works well for you once set up! As for the installation, I know, this bit kind of sucks, sorry :( How long ago did you last install/upgrade? My co-founder is working pretty much full ti
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Python teaching resources for a modern classroom(getdatajoy.com)
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by jpallen 11y ago
This sounds a lot more humane than current practices. I would be much more inclined to eat meat grown without a 'brain' to suffer with.
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by jpallen 11y ago
The VATMOSS rules mean that you need to collect, verify and store a bunch more info than previously: You need to be able to show evidence for the country the buyer is in, and check that ip address, address, credit card, etc match. It sounds
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by jpallen 11y ago
At ShareLaTeX ( https://www.sharelatex.com ), our hosting costs are around $1500/month (can probably be doubled once you add in backups and other supporting services). This is for a similar service (LaTeX is just subset of wh
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by jpallen 11y ago
Hey, thanks for posting this! (It's not really notebooks in the IPython sense, but it's interactive and session-based like IPython). Let me know if you've got any questions. - DataJoy co-founder
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by jpallen 11y ago
I'd guess that the rendering is done client side here and can be done with partial updates. ShareLaTeX and Overleaf have to do a full LaTeX pass on the server just to show the change of a small part of the document.
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by jpallen 11y ago
Thanks. DataJoy is aimed at a totally different market from Cloud 9. We want to make it easy for scientists and people doing data analysis, statistics, etc rather that developing software packages. The difference is that this requires a muc

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