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Regarding piping between apps: this is the role the clipboard serves today. When you copy something, the clipboard stores the app you copied from and a list of

by syrrim 9y ago

Regarding piping between apps: this is the role the clipboard serves today. When you copy something, the clipboard stores the app you copied from and a list of formats. When you paste something, the app selects a format from the list in the clipboard, then recieves the contents of the clipboard in that format from the app you copied from. Regarding your filesystem suggestions: this is already commonly done on linux. Generally, separate filesystems are created on separate partitions for each of /mnt, /home, and / (everything else). If you wanted to backup all user data, you could find the partition, then run `dd if=/dev/home of=$BACKUP`. Regarding your third point. Windows UAC already allows a user to jump into being an admin when needed. I'm unsure why you would need a separate user account for other roles. Users exist primarily to protect your stuff from other people on the computer. You shouldn't need to protect your files from yourself.

mamcx 9y ago
I understand some hacky, underused and not well designed ways to do some of the ideas exists :) >Regarding piping between app: this is the role the clipboard serves today This is more a "scratch" area than truly piping. If you can't do: map(PhotoShop.listImages, zipToFile) |> map(sendEmail) naturally then is not the idea. > this is already commonly done on linux. In fact this one is almost too close. But think for example in all the trash/caches/temps is stored on the HOME. The problem is that the whole thing rely on ad-hoc, let's imagine developers and users will respect the filesystem layout... You can totally store your photos on /bin. You can't trust ONLY your personal data is on HOME. > Windows UAC already allows a user to jump into being an admin when needed. I'm unsure why you would need a separate user account for other roles. Not, is the opposite, is not to create more accounts, but to switch roles per context. I'm jhon/admin when managing computer I'm jhon/user when browsing I'm jhon/developer when compiling

by syrrim 9y ago

mamcx 9y ago

I understand some hacky, underused and not well designed ways to do some of the ideas exists :) >Regarding piping between app: this is the role the clipboard serves today This is more a "scratch" area than truly piping. If you can't do: map(PhotoShop.listImages, zipToFile) |> map(sendEmail) naturally then is not the idea. > this is already commonly done on linux. In fact this one is almost too close. But think for example in all the trash/caches/temps is stored on the HOME. The problem is that the whole thing rely on ad-hoc, let's imagine developers and users will respect the filesystem layout... You can totally store your photos on /bin. You can't trust ONLY your personal data is on HOME. > Windows UAC already allows a user to jump into being an admin when needed. I'm unsure why you would need a separate user account for other roles. Not, is the opposite, is not to create more accounts, but to switch roles per context. I'm jhon/admin when managing computer I'm jhon/user when browsing I'm jhon/developer when compiling