Reply to: Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

[threaded]

The youth of today, never had to toggle in a bootstrap on front panel switches... just don't know they're born.

Did you have to do it to the train describer for the whole East Coast Mainline stood dead and with every manager who knew where the signal box was watching and making inane comments?

[Fungus]

The SE market is now mature - it depends on who has the big bananas to fund the fast servers to give rapid search results and coverage - that is what people care about. If you have a new search technology which you have patented then someone might buy you out. Other than that they could reproduce whatever you have done in a few days AtW.

The successful ideas in IT are not necessarily clever or elegant, the people are just there first and satisfy or generate a demand eg. MS, WWW, Google

Some of the former top dogs at Psion - that oh so illustrious 'pioneer' (1) - have a new search engine concept. They have a team of people searching answers to your query. All you do is pay. IMO their business model is complete tulipe and the company will fail. No-one wants to pay.

Here it is:

http://www.issuebits.com/

Enjoy ... God how I hate that foul American usage of an otherwise good word.

(1) In this context pioneer means "uber-w@nkers with their heads permanently stored up their fundaments".

[scotspine]

Here!

about time too. where've you been? dipping hooks? chasing an out of season rainbow?

[Fungus]

I don't care.

You're full of tulip.

Harsh, but funny.

[OrangeHopper]

Here!

[bogeyman]

I'l drink to that. Stick to your guns, AtW. If nobody tried anything we'd all be sitting in caves.

What? You mean you're not sitting in a cave?

How come? You're supposed to be the devil and you should be sitting in a nice red-hot one with lava and stuff.

Don't tell me you're idling at a poolside in Cancun! There could be a serious rebellion here Boss.

Bogey

[hyperD]

If nobody tried anything we'd all be sitting in caves.

You mean, emulating a permie working for someone else LB?

Oh to break free from the chains of slavery...!

[Lucifer Box]

P.S I like the idea behind your search engine... you keep going until someone buys you out. Better than fucking working for an hourly rate for nobody....

I'l drink to that. Stick to your guns, AtW. If nobody tried anything we'd all be sitting in caves.

[AtW]

Thanks mate, we crawled enough data already, as soon as I scale it to 2 bln pages or more it will become real interesting, should hit first 1 bln in index by the end of Feb

[hyperD]

Oh... how many of the old guys have stopped replying. I know Roger R did... but surely not fiddle... and how many others?

P.S I like the idea behind your search engine... you keep going until someone buys you out. Better than fucking working for an hourly rate for nobody....

[AtW]

Thanks AtW, I have one working eye and one roving one: I meant, where (or what is his new nickname) on this BB?

No idea - I believe he stopped reading it

[hyperD]

Nothing - he is #10 today and #5 overall.

Thanks AtW, I have one working eye and one roving one: I meant, where (or what is his new nickname) on this BB?

[AtW]

Nothing - he is #10 today and #5 overall.

[hyperD]

Looking at the stats: what happened to fiddleabout?

[bogeyman]

That is the URL for ATW's SKA (ooh, I love those TLAs).

Don't you like it?

Err... not a lot boss.

BTW. Couldn't we have discussed this in the next Minor Demons' Town Hall Meeting in Hell, rather than on a public Internet forum in this Earthly Realm?

Bogey