This is pretty cool. I hate how we have a tough crowd here that's not very encouraging. Keep hacking and having fun doing so!
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Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#32This is pretty cool. I hate how we have a tough crowd here that's not very encouraging. Keep hacking and having fun doing so!
Actually the crowd has been pretty encouraging and supportive. I'm really surprised and didn't expect the response to be this positive.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#33Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html
I'm not sure why every "Show HN" post attracts somebody that points out that what OP has created isn't novel. It's a big world and novelty isn't half as important as quality of execution and UX.
The purpose of these posts isn't to lay focus on what's already out there, but to focus on what OP has created, usually for the primary purpose of critical feedback so they can improve themselves and their product.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#34I can't find a link to the source code
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the report. Will be working on it!
On the CDN urls, you can just change them to use protocol relative urls. It Looks like the jquerytools cdn doesn't support HTTPS, but you should be okay to use this one from cloudflare //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-tools/1.2.7/jquery.tools.min.js Here's a texpaste showing what you should change your script src's to. https://texpaste.herokuapp.com/n/lyoitffa
> protocol relative urls.
Fun bit of trivia: these are actually called 'network path references.' http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986.html#section-4.2
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#36This is very cool! I could have really used this during my time at university. :) How about as a next step adding revisions to formulas and making them commentable, working sort of like gists?
Thank you! Or you could share it with your university juniors ;)
Those revisions and comments features are nice suggestions, though I really want to see exactly what features are needed for users to use this _regularly_.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#37I can't find a link to the source code
Maybe it's not open source.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#38Currently I use MathOverflow's `ask question` feature.
This is a great 1st rails project. Also there should be mathematician's Twitter.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#39Do you plan to open source the source code? I'd like to contribute with with the front end. It works very nicely, but looks too generic. (:
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#40Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html
I'm not sure why every "Show HN" post attracts somebody that points out that what OP has created isn't novel. It's a big world and novelty isn't half as important as quality of execution and UX. The purpose of these posts isn't to lay focus on what's already out there, but to focus on what OP has created, usually for the primary purpose of critical feedback so they can improve themselves and their product.
Part of critical feedback is comparing something to its competitors. Of course, the GP could have done a better job at this.