smanek

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by smanek 15y ago
To get pretty good 'out of the box' search you should probably use solr (and see something http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent ). If you're using Lucene, it's not too difficult to write your own query parser that does exactly w
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by smanek 15y ago
If you take a look at our benchmarks, you'll see that with RAID you can get 100 MB/s of seq reads (or ~5MB/sec of random reads). Even on a really bad day, speeds will only fall to around a third of that. While that's not the fastest thing i
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by smanek 15y ago
I'd guess that writing to the RAID is still bottlenecked by the worst drive in the array. But if only one out of N blocks has to be read/written to that drive, average performance may improve (basically, the idea of 'regression towards the
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Greplin (YC W10) AWS Benchmarks and Best Practices(tech.blog.greplin.com)
70 points by smanek 15y ago|10 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
Even if Thiel was in favor, he is no longer with Paypal.
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by smanek 16y ago
You have to sign up at https://www.greplin.com , and grant us permission (via OAuth - so we never see your password) to index your mail for you. See http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/03/oauth-access-to-imaps... for some details.
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by smanek 16y ago
The coolest features: " Once you’ve started searching, you’ll notice that tweaks to your query show up in real-time as you type each character, the same way they do on Google Instant. And it shows results for partial-word matches (“Tech” wo
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by smanek 16y ago
M-x delete-region by default (although you can bind it to anything). I use emacs every day, and don't think I've ever used it though. Just put the stuff you want to delete in the kill ring. Why don't you want stuff in the kill ring? It take
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by smanek 16y ago
I personally know one of the finalists, and he's probably more impressive than I am (and certainly more impressive than I was at that age). Thiel is simply arguing that we need to make sure kids know about other options available to them be
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by smanek 16y ago
I have no idea why you think going to college is a requirement for understanding those things. I don't have a degree, and have used all those things in production (except FFTs - which I have used for fun) - I was a defense contractor with T
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by smanek 16y ago
We're huge fans! Our real time search technology copied its architecture from Zoie, and our faceting/caching took some ideas from Bobo! We didn't use them outright since we have fairly different requirements/constraints (our data has some p
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by smanek 16y ago
We originally used mmap too - but it didn't work very well. First, Java has some rather serious mmap limitations, ( http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4724038 ) - and for some reason, we saw occcasional data corruption (which we haven't
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by smanek 16y ago
The first version of Greplin was actually built on Solr! Eventually, we needed more flexibility than Solr easily offered though. For example, we've added far more efficient sharding, document modifications (updates and deletions), flushing,
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Greplin opensources Lucene Utils and Bloom Filters(tech.blog.greplin.com)
71 points by smanek 16y ago|27 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
You have 2 ASP.net stacks on no Java stacks? I'd say include Java/Servlets at least (which will include basically every other Java framework, if you don't want to break it out more).
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by smanek 16y ago
Yep, one of our co-founders (Daniel) hacked together the first demo of multi-service search ~2 days before Demo Day when his earlier idea fell through. The team/product have grown quite a bit since then though ;-) To be honest, I'm not real
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by smanek 16y ago
I'd recommend checking out https://www.greplin.com to help search basecamp. I've encountered some of the same issues with their search you have and Greplin makes things much better! (full disclosure: I work at Greplin ;-)).
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by smanek 16y ago
Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Telsa: If Mr. Edison had thought a bit more he wouldn't have to sweat so much (full disclosure: I've never found an original source on the Tesla quote, so it's
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by smanek 16y ago
shrugs I don't have a degree and I'm fairly comfortable with all those topics (and quite a few more - including abstract algebra, real analysis, numerical methods, tiny bits and pieces of category theory, etc). I like to read journal arti
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by smanek 16y ago
My point is that Indians (for example) aren't embarrassed by their ignorance about Brazil (for example), but expect Americans to be embarrassed by their ignorance of India.
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by smanek 16y ago
America is special. We're special for a lot of reasons, including 'soft power' (e.g., the most watched movies in the world are from America), 'hard power' (our military is more powerful and more likely to be used than any other plausible co
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by smanek 16y ago
Impressive guy, didn't know he used to be in physics Phd program. Changes my perception of him a bit ... The most interesting thing to me was: he had a mathematical formula to keep abreast of [an internet bubble]. It involved looking at ev
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by smanek 16y ago
$300K isn't inconceivable. The superintendant of my HS's district made a little over $250K, and that was ~7 years ago. Some individual teachers in Chicago ostensibly made over $400K during their final year since they cashed out 20+ years of
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by smanek 16y ago
The problem is that a teacher's salary is weighted more towards the tail end of their career than most other professions. In my high school, we had gym teachers who had been there for 30 years earning well over a $100K. And we had an ingeni
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by smanek 16y ago
San Francisco, CA Greplin - We're a YC W10 company with interesting problems, smart people, cool tech, huge data, and rapid growth. We help people search their personal information that's online (Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). As
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by smanek 16y ago
I think they see the logic as: p iff q. q. therefore p. which is a valid inference.
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by smanek 16y ago
It is documented everywhere I looked. Check out pg162 of http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST... , for example.
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by smanek 16y ago
Do you have a source on that? I'm not a lawyer, but some of that sounds at odds with other case law I've seen. It sounds particularly ludicrous to suggest that omitting a former employer from a resume is grounds for losing legal standing fo
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by smanek 16y ago
In the last month or two we've open sourced a bunch of useful projects and tools ( http://github.com/Greplin ), released a cool chrome extension that is constantly getting new features ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjclhonkhgk
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by smanek 16y ago
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ seems good (after 30 seconds of googling, and 5 minutes of skimming).

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