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by nzadrozny 14y ago
Geohashes seem to play nicely to the strengths of an indexing search engine, because you can encode quadrants into a string of characters, and use ngram analysis to compare multiple levels of precision. There's almost no extra work that goe
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by nzadrozny 14y ago
Furthermore, with respect to schema changes, ElasticSearch will refuse to make backwards-incompatible changes. So for either search engine, you'll need to get comfortable at some point with the procedure for creating a new index with the ne
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by nzadrozny 14y ago
Technically Searchify is based on the open-sourced code from the previously proprietary IndexTank. So in theory you can run your own: https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-engine . I'm skeptical about claims of different quality of relevan
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
There's a lot to be said for ElasticSearch's data distribution. It does sharding and replication really well. That makes my life easier, as a service provider, as well as the life of anyone that has to manage and scale an ES cluster. Or who
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Absolutely agreed. My cofounder and I have real conversations with real websolr customers every day, who are thrilled to have access to search experts. Not just customer service, too, but end to end developer experience can be a huge advant
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
We think our prices actually compare pretty well to self-hosting. Hosting a search engine is not cheap when it comes to memory and disk IO, and I don't envy anyone trying to shoehorn production Solr traffic into a small VPS. Not to mention,
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
You seem to like IndexTank ;) There's also my own http://websolr.com/ running Apache Solr. Some other Solr services are mentioned elsewhere on the page. I've also recently launched http://bonsai.io/ for a hosted ElasticSearch service. B
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
On my recent bootstrap-based hacking, adding a 'static' class for the topbar has consistently been customization number one. .topbar.static { position: static; }
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Neat stuff, qrush! Some feedback: the order in which you introduce the concepts on the page seems backwards. You're starting with the "how" and ending with the "why." I know this is just an MVP and you're focused on the tech types, but I,
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Performance improvements relative to... what? We do get a surprising number of people who are upgrading from SQL LIKE queries. In a situation like that, you might see queries that take a few seconds to scan through a table in SQL get cut do
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
IndexTank have already said that they'll open source their code so others can take up the mantle. Another alternative is the excellent open source Apache Solr search engine, discussed elsewhere in this thread.
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
> Plus, Solr just seemed to struggle with geo search. I hear you on that. Solr only relatively recently got a decent, official Spatial search API with its version 3 release. We've got a Solr 3 cluster up at Websolr (with lots of other t
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Thanks for the heads up on that 404, I'll take care of that. See cedrichurst's comment for what I ought to be linking to.
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
> Any chance Websolr offers an option like this down the road? We're definitely open to adding easier free trials. As a developer myself, I respect when a service meets you half-way on that initial integration cost. In the mean time, we
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition. Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted ser
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
I deal with customer support on a daily basis. In my opinion it wasn't just the blog post that was bad. By then it was way too late. The account auto-suspension may have been a bit harsh. But what they never should have done was explain it
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
For that, I use Bundler and always install gems to vendor/bundle for maximum isolation and easy cleanup. :~ which bi bi: aliased to bundle install --path vendor/bundle
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
Also, Sunburnt: https://github.com/tow/sunburnt/
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
You might make a case for "happening" with bitcoin, but the banking industry is far from "revolutionized" in the past-tense. Besides which, currency and customer support are two very different pieces of a much larger pie. At best, currenc
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by nzadrozny 15y ago
I love my stand-up desk, which I hacked together from an Ikea Galant: http://flic.kr/p/9kYneT Total cost: around $200.
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
It sounds diplomatic to let each group choose their preference, but what is much more valuable here is to learn what exactly those preferences are, and why they are held. If there were an option to let each choose according to their pre
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
I think he meant that he hates when people use only the single statement, "This," as commentary.
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
Hey there, Nick from Websolr here. Of course I'm a bit biased here, but where search is concerned, Solr is a really great option for you. Certainly I don't need to rehash all its features and benefits here, when you could just as easily fig
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
Actually, as a male who uses OKC, I found it interesting to simply note "the curse of being cute." My takeaway is that there are some "conventionally cute" women who you find attractive, and who you also assume receive a lot of attention.
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
> Looking into auto-mounting the partition when a symlink is accessed Ah, see now that's what I imagined would be going on here ;) From your SuperUser question it looks like there's a service called, appropriately enough, automountd.
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
Those AppleScripts sound interesting -- mind sharing a link to more info?
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
MacVim + PeepOpen ( http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen ) are a pretty decent alternative, particularly if you already have some experience in vim. If you don't have a history of vim mastery, you should still think about it. Yehuda Katz w
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
You've since mentioned that you've gone for a 4 gig box with 55 Passenger workers. Definitely a good start. If I were in your shoes, these three items would be next on my emergency-scaling checklist: 1. Database sanity check: Are you using
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
Anything related to the production and consumption of coffee and tea. Mugs and the like fit nicely in the gift price range, allow the giver to express themselves a bit, and are easy to collect and enjoy. Really, who doesn't love an awesome
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by nzadrozny 16y ago
Yeah, great points. Thanks for your feedback! Better general documentation is pretty high on our list right now. To answer your immediate question: we started as a Heroku add-on, so you might take a glance at our documentation there ( http:

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