Unfortunately we start seeing the contrary. A much less qualified black candidate would get promoted or hired because of the statistics purposes. It's sad, especially in high tech companies, where geeks are more likely to discriminate on how well you know Star Trek rather than on your skin color.
Btw, in the dev world, there's no such a thing as a choice of candidates, it's an individual candidate being recruited, if he qualifies, he is happily hired regardless whether he's black, white, blue or anything else. He usually doesn't compete with anyone simply cause there's room for even more.
Why aren't people from India not black enough to be counted in these statistics that yield the injustice systematically comitted @ the Big Evil?
Microsoft is and has always been eager to employ and enlessly promote anyone who can code, manage or market, even if you come from Mars and have green skin.
Depending on the size of the site, indexing in background constantly is a good solution. If the site is big, make the server code generating dynamic pages support If-Modified-Since and use a search-indexer-spider like Alkaline.
That's how Alkaline works. But for now an index of 179734 distinct word forms and 21309 pages eats ~40 MB together with the engine and serveral fast search structures. It grows slowly, so for 40'000 pages it will not get over 50-60 MB.
Anyhow, that means your next purchase of the first terabyte of RAM will make the shop happy:)
cheers
dB.
Nice, but I just want a search engine!
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Nice, fast powerful, whatever... yet another Altavista with maybe one day more relevant results.
Still, for us, common mortal beings and small company sites (50'000 to half a million pages), maybe a decent accessible search engine like Alkaline is more than enough! It's free!
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Unfortunately we start seeing the contrary. A much less qualified black candidate would get promoted or hired because of the statistics purposes. It's sad, especially in high tech companies, where geeks are more likely to discriminate on how well you know Star Trek rather than on your skin color.
Btw, in the dev world, there's no such a thing as a choice of candidates, it's an individual candidate being recruited, if he qualifies, he is happily hired regardless whether he's black, white, blue or anything else. He usually doesn't compete with anyone simply cause there's room for even more.
Why aren't people from India not black enough to be counted in these statistics that yield the injustice systematically comitted @ the Big Evil?
Microsoft is and has always been eager to employ and enlessly promote anyone who can code, manage or market, even if you come from Mars and have green skin.
Depending on the size of the site, indexing in background constantly is a good solution. If the site is big, make the server code generating dynamic pages support If-Modified-Since and use a search-indexer-spider like Alkaline.
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I guess it's purely cache methods. No database queries any more, pure hash hits in RAM.
cheers
dB.
That's how Alkaline works. But for now an index of 179734 distinct word forms and 21309 pages eats ~40 MB together with the engine and serveral fast search structures. It grows slowly, so for 40'000 pages it will not get over 50-60 MB.
:)
Anyhow, that means your next purchase of the first terabyte of RAM will make the shop happy
cheers
dB.
Nice, fast powerful, whatever... yet another Altavista with maybe one day more relevant results.
Still, for us, common mortal beings and small company sites (50'000 to half a million pages), maybe a decent accessible search engine like Alkaline is more than enough! It's free!
cheers
dB.