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Re:Show HN: PISA – A text search engine able to run on large... by sillypudding on Friday July 12, 2019 @08:10PM (#20425657)
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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Re:Show HN: PISA – A text search engine able to run on large... by amallia on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:58AM (#20427184)
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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