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Show HN: PISA – A text search engine able to run on large-scale collections (github.com)
48 points by amallia 2537 days ago
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sillypudding 2537 days ago
Kudos on your work!

Just a tangential comment: we seem to inadvertently reuse names in Computer Science fairly often. For instance, there’s a somewhat recent SIGCOMM paper also called PISA [1]. Of course, in both the cases the name is a natural acronym and I don’t think anyone would be mistaking one for the other - this is just quite amusing to me!

[1] https://conferences.sigcomm.org/events/apnet2017/slides/chan...

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amallia 2536 days ago
Interesting! As long as there is no other OS software with the name PISA it should not be too confusing. Thanks for pointing out.
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amallia 2537 days ago
We are looking for contributors! Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating.
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ABahajaj 2536 days ago
Hi, I would like to contribute. How can I get started?
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amallia 2536 days ago
Writing some documentation is definitely the first thing to get familiar with the code. Are you a C++ developer?
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ABahajaj 2535 days ago
Yeah, I know C/C++. Ok, I can write some documentation. I joined your slack channel. I will message you there.
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continuations 2536 days ago
Does PISA support faceted search?
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amallia 2536 days ago
Not yet
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