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by jpallen 11y ago
This is a very good point, that we haven't worked out a good solution to yet (it's a notoriously hard problem). A requirements.txt file would certainly help, but then that's the sort of thing you'd probably need to maint
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by jpallen 11y ago
DataJoy is our second product (we're also the team behind ShareLaTeX (www.sharelatex.com)). We realised that a lot of the technical problems we had solved to make ShareLaTeX possible could also apply to more general environments, like
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Show HN: DataJoy, an online Python and R editor for scientists(getdatajoy.com)
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by jpallen 11y ago
Dark matter isn't a solution, it's a quantification of the unknown. It's more nuanced than just "I don't know", but it's not far from it. I think you're wrong that science is bad at those words, it&#x
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by jpallen 11y ago
I've had APIs subtly break on me between at least 2 releases (I think it's actually 3, but one time may have been user error). The main culprits were changing the parameters which are passed on container creation vs on container s
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by jpallen 11y ago
The volume plugins look very interesting for our use case, but I can't find any documentation about how to actually write a plugin? Do I have to reverse engineer it from the Flocker example provided? Edit: Nevermind, I found it ( https
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by jpallen 11y ago
Looks like it's all fixed now :)
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by jpallen 11y ago
This has serious XSS holes which need fixing! Here is a PR that should do the job (not tested): https://github.com/idoco/map-chat/pull/1
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by jpallen 11y ago
Make your regexs global, i.e. .replace(/</g, "") (note the g at the end), otherwise only the first instance is replaced. I made it easy for you: https://github.com/idoco/map-chat/pull/1
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by jpallen 11y ago
ShareLaTeX/DataJoy - UK, full-time, REMOTE, second non-founder developer. Help us empower scientists by building usable open-source research tools. We're looking for a remote full-time developer to join our team at ShareLaTeX ( ht
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by jpallen 12y ago
When I was doing lots of tensor computations during my PhD, I found Cadabra ( http://cadabra.phi-sci.com/ ) which has great support for Einstein notation.
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by jpallen 12y ago
Recurly ( https://recurly.com/ ) have done a great job to quickly roll out all the features and reporting required for us to be compliant with these changes by the 1st Jan. I'm not aware of any other payment provider tha
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by jpallen 12y ago
Nice! After playing with it for a bit too long, this was my favourite: sin(time * 0.2) * cos(time * 0.1) * (125+125*sin(0.01*(2 + sin(0.6*time)*cos(0.4*time))*((- 50 + x + 20 * cos(0.5*time))^2 + (- 50 + y + 20 * sin(0.3*time))^2)))
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by jpallen 12y ago
ShareLaTeX - UK, full-time, remote, first non-founder developer. Help us empower scientists by building usable research tools. We’re looking for a full stack web developer to join us as employee number 1 at ShareLaTeX (www.sharelatex.com).
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by jpallen 12y ago
ShareLaTeX - UK, full-time, remote, first non-founder developer. Help us empower scientists by building usable research tools. We’re looking for a full stack web developer to join us as employee number 1 at ShareLaTeX (www.sharelatex.com).
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Show HN: Automatically compile your LaTeX GitHub repos online(sharelatex.com)
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by jpallen 12y ago
This is great, thanks! Quick question: Is there a best practice for handling rate limiting? I.e. if you send us X number of web hook updates in quick succession for a user, are we ok just sending X delta requests back at you in quick succes
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by jpallen 13y ago
ShareLaTeX - https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex is a web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor. The stack is a walking cliché: Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, Coffeescript. Lots of open issues, with plenty that are
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by jpallen 13y ago
Our history system isn't great at the moment. We made the classic mistake of building a feature that doesn't really work for a lot of people. However, we understand want people want a lot better now and we're working on somet
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by jpallen 13y ago
You can split your document into multiple files on ShareLaTeX too, just like you could on your own computer with LaTeX. There is still a lot that we'd like to add into our IDE, but providing an experience that compares with offline edi
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by jpallen 13y ago
I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!
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by jpallen 13y ago
We'd love to hear any things you think we could improve. And of course a pull request would be amazing as well!
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by jpallen 13y ago
We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.
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by jpallen 13y ago
Thank you for your support! There is a danger of sounding like a broken record, but when it comes to Dropbox sync: We're working on it, I promise! :) Dropbox recently released a new API end point that allows for long polling which shou
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by jpallen 13y ago
Phew, lots of questions :). I've only really done this once (with ShareLaTeX), and it feels like a constant challenge in many ways. I think I'd have to try it a few more times with other products to understand which challenges are
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by jpallen 13y ago
You're not the first (and I doubt you'll be the last) to think that we're some sort of social media site based around prophylactics :)
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by jpallen 13y ago
We don't have any hard data - this is based on our personal vision, and our understanding of our user base. People mostly use ShareLaTeX because: 1) There is no installation, 2) You can access it anywhere, 3) You can collaborate easily
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by jpallen 13y ago
There isn't a perfect way that I'm aware of. In LaTeX, the commands end up translating to direct formatting commands that only make sense in a fixed layout document, so HTML conversion will be an approximation at best. I think Pan
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by jpallen 13y ago
Basically, we wanted to! We've benefited hugely from open source projects ourselves, and have always enjoyed being part of the community surrounding them. It seems like the default state is to not be open source, but we realised that s
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by jpallen 13y ago
James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.

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