Re: Rethinking files as a concept -- review draft paper

2020-04-03 Thread Josh Marshall
Thanks! No matter what spelling and grammar checkers I seem to pass it through, there always seems to be many things missed. I'll fix those up and improve the notation as you suggest. As for the Windows pathing support, I'm not settled on the idea but figured I'd keep it more abstracted. I'm

Re: Rethinking files as a concept -- review draft paper

2020-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Thanks for sharing, nice write up! A few notes below: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Scheme: A group of programming languages which are major branch of the Common LISP dialets. --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Typo: dialects.

Re: Rethinking files as a concept -- review draft paper

2020-03-31 Thread Josh Marshall
Spelling and grammar fixes. Automatic tools have become insufficient to catch everything. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:33 PM Josh Marshall < joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was on a while back about using IPFS or some other CAS to cache > computation and results. I iterated on this

Rethinking files as a concept -- review draft paper

2020-03-31 Thread Josh Marshall
I was on a while back about using IPFS or some other CAS to cache computation and results. I iterated on this concept with metadata, then data, then just files as a fundamental concept. It became abundantly clear that how we use, think, and need from and about files are not what computer files