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> Have you met or spoken with younger non-technical people lately. They are lost and beyond clueless about a lot of important things. They just have different
by mschaef 9y ago
> Have you met or spoken with younger non-technical people lately. They are lost and beyond clueless about a lot of important things.
They just have different ideas about what's important. Back in the early 1990's, I volunteered in the medical education office of a Houston area hospital. This is the office that ran the residency program responsible for training doctors. Important and life saving stuff.
Anyway, one of the admins there was a DOS Wordperfect user with something like 10,000 files in a single directory on her hard disk. It wasn't the most efficient way of organizing files, but it worked for her and let her focus on the business of getting doctors trained.
- keithpeter 9y agoResearch on the 'ecology' of end user computing would be quite interesting and might inform future products. Personal anecdote: I put the date in yyyymmdd format in many of my file names for teaching documents so I can order by time easily. Gnome Shell when it first came out had an 'activity journal' feature (like Win XP I recollect) based on the zeitgeist functionality[1] which I found really handy. You could view your history, click a bar (like on wayback machine) and get the docs. A versioning system based on that would be wicked. Alas, this initiative seems to have died. [1] https://saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/tutorial-on-gnome-activity-journal-zeitgeist-and-sezen/ https://saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/...