February 2011
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Soulmate: a redis-backed autocomplete engine by...
What it does:
Provides a Ruby API for indexing and querying search terms for AutoComplete widgets.
Provides a rack app (implemented with Sinatra) for querying
How it works:
There are two redis stores maintained by Soulmate: one for building the index of search terms and one for caching queries.
Soulmate also keeps a reference to a third redis store, which contains the data being indexed. The...
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telling myself my goals
When I first read http://sivers.org/zipit I was surprised. I felt that Sivers, and the researchers he cited, were right, and it wasn’t what I already thought about social motivation. In fact, I might have thought the opposite - that telling other people my most clever plans would help push me toward achieving them.The advice has stood the test of time, but I realized that I missed something....
