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What is going on? The grandparent comment is merely noting the novelty of a filesystem utilizing a recently invented data structure. The parent is weirdly menti
by rackjack 5y ago
What is going on? The grandparent comment is merely noting the novelty of a filesystem utilizing a recently invented data structure. The parent is weirdly mentioning how they wouldn't trust a research filesystem for real work (who would...?). Now THIS comment is claiming the parent comment is anti-academic and anti-expert when it's actually mainly raising common concerns about the disconnect between theory and practice (then this comment mentions the electricity grid, as if that's of any relevance??). Just a really strange series of disconnects between the arguments.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoThe grandparent comment is an example of the kind of “middlebrow dismissal” [1] that isn’t really welcome here. It sets the tone with dismissive snark (“find and dandy”), then implicitly asserts that the project is not interesting because it’s not production-ready. Of course it’s obvious to everyone here that version 0.2 beta software is not production-ready, so obvious that comments to that effect are at best superfluous, at worst annoying. But its production-readiness is clearly not the focus of the discussion, rather its novelty and potential is. That’s what makes it interesting and worth discussing here. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920