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My God, what is it about this topic? Is there something about geeks that makes them think a mastery of nested folders is a validation of their manhood? There a
by epo 14y ago
My God, what is it about this topic? Is there something about geeks that makes them think a mastery of nested folders is a validation of their manhood?
There are other, and probably better, organising principles than hierarchical directories. It is not anti-directory as the original author so witlessly claims but a search for better, easier to understand, alternatives. Something which Apple have repeatedly done, and by so doing made a lot money in the process.
- gbog 14y agoNo, my point is that all the office employees I have known did master nested folders. For some assets a hierarchical structure is not ideal, I agree with that, but I don't agree with this "users are geeks or stupid" claim I see flourishing more and more here and there. In reality, users are either very clever or not interested. I have seen once a non geek do incredible tweaking to his Windows box in order to play CS. On the opposite, I know of very clever geeks who can't even fill a sign-up form, or cook eggs, because they aren't interested.
- super_mario 14y agoTrees are so yesterday. I think we should move to cyclic graphs for our filesystems.
- fferen 14y agoDon't worry, with the magic of symlinks anything is possible!
- super_mario 14y agoYes indeed :D.