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By ObviousTroll (Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 07:47:43 PM EST) (all tags)

I've honestly never heard of this guy before, although he's apparently one of the pioneers of personal computing.

I can't even tell you what I think of his ideas, yet. But it's nice to have something with enough layers and depth to it to make me think hard about what he's saying.

And it isn't even politics!

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deep by LoppEar (2.00 / 0) #1 Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 11:01:56 PM EST

oB brilliant solution which unfortunately does not fit in this margin/comment.

also by LoppEar (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 11:10:54 PM EST

please leave links discussing this 'no file' concept.

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Yeah, if you read some of the responses... by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #3 Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 08:29:52 AM EST

Eric Raymond nails him for that.

The thing is, he wouldn't be the first person to suggest it. Files are an artifact of disk storage and of our own prior habits with paper documents.

I can easily envisage a system that stores everything in a highly relational database, where all access is based on keyword or concept searching. It might have the effect of data never been retrieved in the same order twice, but I don't think people remember things in the same order twice, either.

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Nails him? by motty (2.00 / 0) #4 Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 01:30:58 PM EST

His entire reply is along the lines of 'Bollocks,' and seems just as entertaining a read if not more so.

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: LoL by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #5 Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 02:12:16 PM EST

Some of the other replies are even better; but I like the guy's core point - it's not that we're locked into particular software, but that we're locked into particular ideas about software.
Of course, everytime someone tells me that, and I ask them to tell me what they have in mind instead, they get very, very vague...

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