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Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by noodly » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

Sgflt wrote: post #9

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

I prefer the usability of the OPs much better. The use of dollar signs might be a little clunkier than the begin/end tags when you want to use a dollar sign. But all in all I think the presentation is better and a bit more welcoming.

Yes it is, and I hope he can contribute to mathbin as it is more widely used - at least it's official pastebin in ##math channel on freenode.

I don't know if the author of mathbin is still working on it (the message on main page is old), but I think it's worth a shot ;)

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by noodly » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

lysa wrote: post #8

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

There was already a search engine when Google started.

There still are search engines besides Google. ;)

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by xyzzyz » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

Sgflt wrote: post #9

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

I prefer the usability of the OPs much better. The use of dollar signs might be a little clunkier than the begin/end tags when you want to use a dollar sign. But all in all I think the presentation is better and a bit more welcoming.

I disagree about dollar sign. This is how embedding mathematical notation in LaTeX always worked, and I never had, nor heard of anyone having problems with that in practice.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by CalinBalauru » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

lysa wrote: post #8

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

There was already a search engine when Google started.

are there?

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by CalinBalauru » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:55 PM UTC

lysa wrote: post #8

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

There was already a search engine when Google started.

are there? :)

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by antoni » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

As I believe you target this to mathematicians mainly, I would suggest putting some more sophisticated (a mathematics "milestone") equation as an example, instead of simple quadratic equation.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by garenp » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

Very nice. I always wished there was a nice way to write natural looking math via IRC--that was still readable in text form--with some kind of whiteboard looking interface for DCC chats that looked pretty.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by huy » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

ushi wrote: post #5

Hmm, this doesn't work in Chrome on your https page, because you load JavaScript (MathJax) with http and Chrome refuses to do that...

Thanks for the report. Will be working on it!

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by tinkupandey » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

Thanks for pointing it out! I am sure it means a lot to somebody who is out there busy telling similar things to similar OPs all over the Internet and documenting it. I am very disappointed in OP for doing such a thing, my god how can he do such an awful thing. I got your back buddy. You are making this world a better place with your well researched replies.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by huy » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

nilliams wrote: post #10

Nice project, is there a logical next step where the text outside the dollars can be formatted with markdown (or I suppose LaTeX)?

That would be nice suggestion. Though I'm trying to see what would people use this for before adding any extra feature. I envision it would be used in university for students to share math notes/proofs. We'll see.