Waldo Jaquith

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Two years later, the prospect of using `posix_kill()` to terminate a PID seems a bit horrifying. I get that it's an easy way to accomplish this, but _ugh_.

That should be relatively do-able. Presently the site generates static JSON and plain-text files for each individual law (see #310) at the time that legal code is parsed. And there's...

Unfortunately, I lack a great corpus of possible changes. That said, I do have a _few._ Below I've pasted in the relevant entries in the changelog maintained by the Virginia...

I've reassigned this to beyond 1.0. It's now my experience that the need for this is quite limited. In most places, the source of the updated text would either be...

I really need to establish a separate repository for Virginia Decoded, to house these things.

The catch with Elasticsearch is that only supports JSON—no other formats. However, that's not necessarily a problem. We can iterate through all laws, via the API, to generate JSON for...

I don't think it would be particularly onerous to convert our schema (`schema.xml`) from Solr's format to Elasticsearch's. I have very limited experience with Solr's format, but I've done a...

They're both just interfaces to Lucene, so they _should_ use the same syntax.

Oh, hey, [this](http://solr-vs-elasticsearch.com/) seems handy.