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Genuinely curious how you noticed that this thread had referenced your work. And, ironically enough, a thread about text search!
by pjot 7y ago
Genuinely curious how you noticed that this thread had referenced your work. And, ironically enough, a thread about text search!
- burntsushi 7y agoFor this thread, I just saw a thread that mentioned grep. At that point, I naturally gravitate toward it since I'm obviously very interested in the topic!
- pjot 7y agoPretty cool coincidence nonetheless! The reason I asked was because I noticed that your comment was within minutes of the parent comment which was a response to another comment about _your_ text-search project and how fast it is. I said out loud, "Wow" and browsed through ripgrep. Nice work! Was torn on whether you were tailing the HN api with ripgrep to alert you or if it was just the right place and time. I had a good time going through how that would work, so, thank you haha! Occam's razor, right?
- burntsushi 7y agoHah. Nah nothing like that. Just right place right time. When you combine that with the fact that I probably check HN a little too frequently, it makes sense. :P I do occasionally manually search HN for mentions of ripgrep. But that wasn't how I found this thread.