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Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by estevez » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 11:06 AM UTC

beck5 wrote: post #50

curiositydriven wrote: post #47

I am a graduate student in a math-heavy field, so I thought you might be interested in some feedback. Just yesterday, I was embedding LaTex-derived images into an HTML email in order to collaborate, and I thought: this is just so stupid. Your service definitely fills a need in the research community. I love it. What is the envisioned freemium model? A problem I can see is that very few users would need more than the…

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 - multiple compilers - unlimited collaborators per project - background compile looking for errors - git pull access any other ideas are welcome.

Sweave support? You could hand off to an EC2 instance and include n hours of computation time in tier x.

Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by beck5 » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Estragon wrote: post #57

beck5 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow, that makes it sound hard to do.

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.

Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by ufuk » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 6:32 PM UTC

Why does the Terms and Conditions document (https://www.sharelatex.com/termsAndConditions.html) refer to Automattic Inc.? Is that a leftover from a quick copy and paste?