Top all-time · #6193
lucidimagination.com
Company blog · lucidimagination.com/blogprogrammingdata
lucidimagination.com is the company blog at lucidimagination.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Java 7 optimizations corrupt loops, cause crashes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lucid Imagination's posts on Lucene and Solr search technology, and cite its company as run by experienced Solr and Lucene developers. Comments mostly reference the posts rather than judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Java 7 optimizations corrupt loops, cause crashes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-29
What Hacker News says?
And there's also LucidWorks Cloud. http://www.lucidimagination.com/products/lucidworks-search-p... Lucid Imagination is run by some of the most experienced Solr and Lucene devs. Specifically Yonik Seeley, who created Solr.
Comment linking /products/lucidworks-search-platform/cloud
on “Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month”Submitted Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program as a story · 139 points
HN discussionThis blog format is absurd. Narrow column and a fixed width content in a box guaranteed to be smaller than the content. Plus this is effectively blog spam despite being owned by the same place as the original content: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/1a0d3986e48a...
Comment linking /search/document/1a0d3986e48a9348/warning_index_corruption_and_crashes_in_apache_lucene_core_apache_solr_with_java_7
on “Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program”Submitted Lucene 2.9 and Solr 1.4 Imminent as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe problem with the pure service model is that only RedHat and a few other companies have been successful at it. The argument “I created it, so I can service it best” doesn’t hold anymore- too many people have technical expertise in open source software. So unless your service is the cheapest and the best, it’ll be killed off by other service providers. I've seen this claim quite a few times ("the service model onl…
Comment linking /
on “Modern Thoughts on Open Source”- nl · 2011-07-29
Submitted Java 7 optimizations corrupt loops, cause crashes as a story · 6 points
HN discussion Not sure I'd call neo4j NoSQL. Its a graph DB as listed in the link. Is the new trend to call any data store that is not SQL, NoSQL. I even heard Lucene being called NoSQL, http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene... . I guess search engines are NoSQL now?
Comment linking /blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene-and-solr/
on “Which NoSQL Platform is Right For You?”Submitted Apache Solr certification now available from Lucid Imagination as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Big Data? More importantly, what is Big Data not? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Seven Deadly Sins of Solr (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flexible ranking in Lucene 4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First dedicated Lucene/Solr support company launches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lucid Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data for Problem of Dark Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Mahout in Action review as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
