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I expected some sort of implementation at the end; something like, "and here's how you implement all of these ideas in one novel framework", maybe something to
by cjohnson318 5y ago
I expected some sort of implementation at the end; something like, "and here's how you implement all of these ideas in one novel framework", maybe something to do with Gemini or something, but there wasn't anything. I get that the concept of linking is important, no one would deny that, but I thought they were talking about implementing all of these things in literal hypertext links.
Assume you have your filesystem as a set of HTTP links, and you have tagging, and whatever else. How do you tell the difference between a link to a file and a link to a tag? It seems like you'd need to impose an additional structure, or type system, on top of just links.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoExactly. Whereupon you build a semantic system which has supposedly failed. But probably more haphazardly because your only primitive is links. Which, not to beat the horse I already declared dead but… is an effort pursued by great resources, and with lots of evidence it doesn’t work.
- duxup 5y ago> I expected some sort of implementation at the end I wanted to see that because as I read on I honestly had more problems understanding the concept and wanted to see the idea implemented so that I might understand. But nope :(
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI have never wished so much to put a gif in a comment on HN, but I’ll do better and transcribe it. “I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology.”