Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
by graemep on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:12AM
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Dealing with files used to be something everyone interacting with computers had to do. It is something average people can do.
I think too much abstraction is a mistake and adds a lot of unneeded complexity.
People should learn something about technology they use. If you want to drive, you need understand how steering wheels work, if you want to drive a manual car (usual where I live and have lived) then you need to know how to work a gear stick and the effect of changing gear.
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
by mgkimsal on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:12AM
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> used to be something everyone interacting with computers had to do
There were far fewer people 'interacting with computers' at that level years ago.
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
by graemep on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:50PM
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Everyone with an office job was still a lot of people though.
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
by mgkimsal on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:13PM
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I'm not even sure 'everyone with an office job' had a computer. It certainly wasn't true 35 years ago. An office might have a computer or two, but not everyone had one, nor was everyone expected to use it.
As a user I want my work to be preserved, I want to view my photos and I want system to know where is my funny foto of my dog I did last Christmas.
As a developer I need an identifier for a resource and I am not going to let user decide on the Id of the resource, I put files in system as GUID and keep whatever user feels as metadata.
Exposing average people to the filesystem is wrong level of abstraction. That is why iOS and Android apps are going that way - but as I myself am used to dealing with files it annoys me that I cannot have that level of control, but I accept that I am quite technical.