guix992

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   by guix992 8y ago

   The hard part is already solved, you don't even have to crawl the web to build the index. There is already a periodically refreshed index of the web that you can download: commoncrawl.org Now someone just needs to configure, Apache Luc
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   by guix992 8y ago

   Thanks for your reply - it was a pretty insightful rebuttal. Do you think in the future it might be possible for say Flutter to: 1. Refactor flutter into a layout engine and gui widgets 2. Provide the layout engine as an interface on all de
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   by guix992 8y ago

   I don't believe that is a good enough limitation in this day and age of docker and kubernetes. You take the search engine docker image and keep scaling the number of nodes that are running it in the cluster till your search result time
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   by guix992 8y ago

   What's been a shame is that there is still no open source Search Engine despite this being a "solved" problem. Like not even something like there is a docker image that you throw at your cluster that gets you faster and faste
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   by guix992 8y ago

   I don't understand why we have to keep reinventing GUI toolkits and layout engines over and over again. Why can't this domain be smarter like Compiler world and build pluggable components? So something like, a react-engine that re
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   by guix992 8y ago

   Does it make sense to have a common rendering engine library that is common to both browsers and GUI desktops? So something like a react rendering engine but the type of nodes change when you use it in different environments: 1. Using it on
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   Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?

   2 points by guix992 8y ago|3 comments