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It’s like plonking a shovel in the ground and saying this is the spot. Metaphors for everyday actions don’t need to be about forcing the real world into the co
by gorgoiler 5y ago
It’s like plonking a shovel in the ground and saying this is the spot.
Metaphors for everyday actions don’t need to be about forcing the real world into the computer world. A lot of the ways of thinking feel like they are one and the same.
Another example, for me, off the top of my head: rummaging with find and grep but then scanning the output with less feels identical to hunting for red 4x1 Lego blocks or M8 nylon locking nuts.
- darkwater 5y agowhy? It's basically a poor man's fuzzy search. You do remember some part of the name you are looking for so you filter your data set with what you know for sure and then visually scan the rest.
- feifan 5y agoIMO browsing to the location first, and then creating the thing in that spot, is fuzzy search. The equivalent to "plonking a shovel" would be knowing exactly where a file should go in the hierarchy and touching/creating it with a single invocation from the top-level.