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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by melloclello on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:38PM (#7879642)
Continuing to use the file-system metaphor (Instead of, I don't know, anything else, perhaps some kind of global namespace with built-in versioning like Urbit's) seems like lobotomising this incredible new paradigm before it is even born.
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by markbnj on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:09PM (#7880142)
It might be. I'm not arguing that it is the ultimate best metaphor to use, but these things do tend to be adopted organically and become very entrenched.
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