From: dvd@davidashen.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:34:39 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <807e031259664a889f4a3a18bda4afe3@davidashen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040529165834.GA16038@mithrandi.za.net>
> A 2-dimensional hierarchy is hopelessly inadequate for storing
> information in a "natural" way. People retrieve information along many
> different "vectors" all the time, and a hierachical filesystem only
> really has 1 or 2. It may be a great low-level implementation, but being
> able to say "find the e-mail I wrote to Timothy last week" is a lot more
> useful to the user.
http://www.gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-29 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-29 16:51 Tiit Lankots
2004-05-29 16:58 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:34 ` dvd [this message]
2004-05-30 3:49 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-29 22:48 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-29 23:56 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 23:54 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-29 23:59 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-30 0:51 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-30 3:40 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-31 9:19 ` a
2004-05-31 10:17 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-30 18:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-29 17:40 ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 22:43 ` boyd, rounin
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2004-05-31 5:46 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-05-31 21:03 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:58 Tiit Lankots
2004-05-29 9:28 Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 14:48 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-29 16:18 ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 18:31 ` 9nut
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