Thanks for clearing that. Sounds interesting so I'll check it out in
2-3 weeks :)
SVAKSHA ॥  http://about.me/svaksha


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
> Basically, JuliaBox gives you hosted IJulia and a persistent filesystem. So,
> you are not restricted to your local device. There is also a shell and
> ability to sync Google Drive and Github repos, or simply upload your files,
> install packages, etc. The reason to do all this is so that one has a great
> environment always available through the browser, which can be scaled as
> required - more CPU and storage then one can other wise have locally.
>
> The invites are just there to prevent a large surge from taking down the
> whole thing for people who are using it regularly, classes, etc. Otherwise,
> there is no restriction on invites, behind our ability to respond to emails.
> That is why we are streamlining the whole invite thing next.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:43 AM, SVAKSHA <svak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Quite understandable (re own auth system). Its just that giving google
>> access everywhere makes me uncomfortable. TBH, I dont have anything
>> specific in mind but off the top of my head there is the github
>> API(?).
>>
>> Before asking for an invite, I'd like to know if juliabox is more of a
>> data analytics platform - as in, can users upload data temporarily and
>> install a few Julia libs? I'm trying to write something like this[0]
>> in Julia but my machine chokes on the size of the gff files. I had
>> asked this on irc but didnt get a reply, and the google signup aside,
>> I didnt see the point of wasting invites :)
>>
>> [0]
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/svaksha/ira/blob/master/2014-transcriptome/01_transcriptome_intro.ipynb
>> SVAKSHA ॥  http://about.me/svaksha  ॥
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
>> > We will get around to this once we get a basic level of scalability and
>> > robustness. Which one would you like? We are not excited about managing
>> > our
>> > own login/authentication system, but are happy to provide multiple
>> > options.
>> > Of course, we are accepting code contributions. :-)
>> >
>> > -viral
>> >
>> >
>> > On Friday, November 14, 2014 8:41:28 AM UTC+5:30, Svaksha wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Will a non-google signup option also be made available?
>> >> SVAKSHA ॥  http://about.me/svaksha  ॥
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
>> >> > Just to add, we are going to get rid of the invite codes soon.
>> >> > Basically,
>> >> > the system should be open to anyone, and invites will be throttled
>> >> > and
>> >> > processed with some delay (say a day) if there is a Hacker News surge
>> >> > going
>> >> > on.
>> >> >
>> >> > We are experimenting with this and hope it will be ready to roll out
>> >> > in
>> >> > the
>> >> > next couple of weeks. In the meanwhile, please just share the code
>> >> > Shashi
>> >> > posted here or use it yourself, but please do not post it publicly in
>> >> > places
>> >> > that will send us a huge amount of traffic right away. Once the
>> >> > invite
>> >> > system is up and running, we will be able to handle that. Shashi and
>> >> > me
>> >> > sending codes individually is just not going to work much longer. :-)
>> >> >
>> >> > -viral
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 5:43:36 AM UTC+5:30, cdm wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> the Sagemath Cloud google chrome app also gets users to a rich
>> >> >> environment
>> >> >> for Julia ...
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-sagemath-cloud/eocdndagganmilahaiclppjigemcinmb
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> users can run Julia inside a terminal ... OR ... via iJulia
>> >> >> notebooks
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >> OR ... via Sagemath worksheets.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> also available for running Julia within a terminal, the VMs served
>> >> >> at
>> >> >>
>> >> >>    https://koding.com (there is also a google chrome app for this
>> >> >> ...)
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> best,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> cdm
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Monday, November 10, 2014 11:04:13 AM UTC-8, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Yesterday someone suggested
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>  https://tmpnb.org/
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> -viral

Reply via email to