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Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by webXL »

stevedomin wrote: post #117

Great product! I've been using RunKit ( https://runkit.com/home ) a bit, what would you say are the key differentiators?

Yeah, a while ago I discovered this slick JS notebook app called Tonic, and could never remember the name until one day I came across this thing called RunKit and I thought that it must be a clone. Nope, name just changed when Striped acquired it.

When I saw this app, I thought Tonic must have gone through another rebranding. Wrong again! This just looks more geared for data visualization and collaboration though. Would be curious to see if Tonic/RunKit (or iPython even) were used as inspiration.

Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by dang »

acosmism wrote: post #38
goatlover wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 3. It runs in the browser so you have direct access to powerful graphics (and GPU computation): Canvas, SVG, WebGL Jupyter is a web server. Notebooks run in the browser. iPython the kernel can run on the command line in addition to the browser. > 1. You don’t have to install anything, so running (or forking) someone else’s notebook is as simple as clicking a link Jupyter lets you clone notebooks with the click of a…

same as https://gryd.us

You've crossed into spamming HN with those links, a long time ago in fact. Please don't do this.

It's fine to link to your stuff when it's relevant and serves good conversation. It's not fine to use HN just for promotion.

Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by Yizahi »

acosmism wrote: post #128
Yizahi wrote: post #121

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> ".edu email required" So USA-centric. My second biggest university in Ukraine (50k students) doesn't have any .edu domains and certainly didn't supply them to the students. Same as first biggest university and just about every other in the country, they all use regional or other general domains.

they support international edu emails as well. have you tried signing up?

I meant that in my country (Ukraine) I can't get any .edu domain or email for any money even if I was student. Our universities use .ua domains and subdomains like .org.ua, .com.ua etc. Also in our universities usually students aren't issued any emails.

Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by swaggyBoatswain »

Its still lacking some core features that make jupyter easier to use. I went through the tutorials and 10 min earthquake videos.

There's no shortcut for deleting items on the "help" section. No WYISWYG editor for that either. So if you want to delete a bulletpoint you accidentally made, it just shows up as "undefined"

There's not a way to bind your own hotkeys. Some of default hotkeys get overridden by my own set of hotkeys, so this isn't too helpful

I'm not a big fan of the UI/UX. I see where its going, collapsing items you don't want to see. But this gets rather tedious to always do everytime. There should be a default setting that lets you bind whether pins are defaulted or not.

Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by abglassman »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #14
simonw wrote: post #8

The homepage copy didn't quite capture me... until I realized it was the new thing by D3's Mike Bostock! Maybe worth name-dropping that somewhere on that page? Though I don't know how many people would respond to that other than myself (hopefully lots of people).

Eh. I respect people more for not namedropping themselves, but maybe I'm alone in this. (Are you sure it's a good idea to perpetuate the status quo? It's hard to get anyone to pay attention to what you've made unless you're already known. That seems a bit unfair to the next generation, and rather the opposite of oldschool hacker ethos.)

This is a rare case where it seems useful for me to externalize my inner monologue: "Well, this just looks like Jupyter lite... oh, wait, this is Mike Bostock's project? He's built some very cool visualizations and some really powerful libraries with a tasteful API design... if this is his idea of a useful workflow it's probably well thought-out and executed and worth checking out."

Re: Show HN: Observable Notebooks

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Post by acosmism »

Yizahi wrote: post #133
acosmism wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they support international edu emails as well. have you tried signing up?

I meant that in my country (Ukraine) I can't get any .edu domain or email for any money even if I was student. Our universities use .ua domains and subdomains like .org.ua, .com.ua etc. Also in our universities usually students aren't issued any emails.

yes what im saying is that they support non-“.edu” domains for recognized international schools. try signing up and see what plan you end up with
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