Re:Untitled Document Syndrome
by Zak on Friday February 20, 2009 @04:05PM
(#489235)
The point of the article was not that applications should have auto-save.
As I read it, the point is that our hierarchical filesystems are not an especially good abstraction for organizing many types of data, and that applications should provide users with better abstractions in more cases. It appears to be a response to The Case Against Everything Buckets (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460274).
As I read it, the point is that our hierarchical filesystems are not an especially good abstraction for organizing many types of data, and that applications should provide users with better abstractions in more cases. It appears to be a response to The Case Against Everything Buckets (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460274).