Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta • Hacker News Board

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by reeses » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:01 AM UTC

beambot wrote: post #57

cing wrote: post #45

Great to see another product in this space ( https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.

Yikes! What field are you in? For most STEM folks, TeX seems to be pretty standard. I'd really love to see a collaborative TeX editor (web based?). Better yet... a collaborative emacs!

Rule 34 existed for emacs well before it did for pr0n.

Rudel (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel) is one example of collaborative editing in emacs.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by bdunbar » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:53 AM UTC

cbsmith wrote: post #88

bdunbar wrote: post #71

Banayan .. github .. Hurray - VINES is finally open sourced! "GitHub of Science" Aw.

I was wondering who else immediately leaped to Banyan Vines!

How could I not?

My first job in IT, I got tossed into the deep end of LAN administration - sink or swim - and Banyan was the pool.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by TrevorBurnham » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:51 PM UTC

Congratulations on launching! I applied to YC a few years ago with a similar concept. Your site looks gorgeous, and I'm excited to see it develop. I hope you succeed in disrupting a space that's been neglected for far too long.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by cben » Fri, May 03, 2013, 11:18 PM UTC

beambot wrote: post #57

cing wrote: post #45

Great to see another product in this space ( https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.

Yikes! What field are you in? For most STEM folks, TeX seems to be pretty standard. I'd really love to see a collaborative TeX editor (web based?). Better yet... a collaborative emacs!

collaborative web based TeX: sharelatex.com, writelatex.com, spandex.io.