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by peterbe 12y ago
It started as a side-project and still is. I'm the creator of the service and my day job is as a web developer at Mozilla. If this service becomes surprisingly popular I'll look into ways to monetize but that's unlikely to be
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by peterbe 12y ago
1. Why? That sample on autocompeter.com is just a sample. Consider the search widget on a page like www.peterbe.com instead. Then it shouldn't focus immediately on load. 2. I see. I think it only happens when the client-side cache is e
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by peterbe 12y ago
Next version maybe.
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by peterbe 12y ago
Also, I think it would be nice to be able to upload a list of synonyms. E.g "go==golang" so if someone types "golan" it could return "Go is a language" for example.
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by peterbe 12y ago
Yeah I agree. A Levenshtein distance shouldn't perhaps be too hard.
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by peterbe 12y ago
20,000 searches have been made in the last post. I love HN!
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by peterbe 12y ago
Right you are! I looked at a different `curl`.
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by peterbe 12y ago
Thank you!
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by peterbe 12y ago
Actually, local mkdocs gets it right. Only on readthedocs does it get screwed up.
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by peterbe 12y ago
Annoying. Must be a bug in ReadTheDocs or something https://github.com/peterbe/autocompeter/blob/master/docs/api...
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by peterbe 12y ago
Taglines are hard. I tried to make the tagline more "end-user friendly" instead of focusing on the tech. The people who implement it actually don't need to know how it's made. They just drop in the .js the .css and send
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by peterbe 12y ago
Yes. And unidecode too :)
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by peterbe 12y ago
So, it loads all titles into the client?
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by peterbe 12y ago
True but it's open source and perhaps people are interested to see something beyond HelloWorld with Go+Redis. I actually re-wrote it once to switch out Redis for Postgres but it was way too slow.
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by peterbe 12y ago
Cool! It seems a bit more flexible but it requires jQuery and the plugin itself is 11Kb.
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by peterbe 12y ago
There is a database. It's redis. It's persistent.
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by peterbe 12y ago
I wrote a cache layer in Go (with limits so it doesn't bloat too much) and I could get 22K req/s instead of the usual 4K. However, the hit ratio is too low to work. It only protects me from the stampeding herd problem at best.
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by peterbe 12y ago
I blogged about it here: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/autocompeter.com
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Show HN: Fast autocomplete service written in Go and JavaScript(autocompeter.com)
76 points by peterbe 12y ago|47 comments
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by peterbe 12y ago
very few just-a-laptop desks.
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Web performance playground for using AJAX or not(peterbe.com)
1 points by peterbe 12y ago|0 comments
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by peterbe 12y ago
A minimum is coming. I have a friend and colleague who's hopefully going to help me make the area of the circles be proportional to the size instead of the radius . Then we'll give it a minimum.
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by peterbe 12y ago
What browser?
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by peterbe 12y ago
I kinda like the idea of starting gently so you can see what's going on.
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by peterbe 12y ago
What was the URL so I can debug?
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by peterbe 12y ago
Worked now http://htmltree.peterbe.com/?url=www.google.com Could have just been a dead squirrel in the pipes. All cleared.
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Show HN: Tool to turn your HTML into a collapsible tree(htmltree.peterbe.com)
36 points by peterbe 12y ago|22 comments
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by peterbe 12y ago
Too late. Users don't trust facebook no matter what scopes you [don't] ask for and tell people "we never post on your wall".
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Grymt – because I didn't invent Grunt here(peterbe.com)
1 points by peterbe 12y ago|0 comments
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by peterbe 12y ago
I think it's so that it can later return files to you without you having to go back in to the site and download. I think. Is that right Andy?

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