supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square286fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down19
arrow-up1245arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square286fedilink
minus-squareDasFaultier@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 days agoYeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoYeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoOr maybe we could keep the flat structure and have some kind of syntax for querying the data… some kind of structured language.
minus-squareCorporal_Punishment@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoYou’ve basically invented OneNote
minus-squareDasFaultier@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoCrap, I was hoping to invent file systems.
Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!
Yeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?
Or maybe we could keep the flat structure and have some kind of syntax for querying the data… some kind of structured language.
You’ve basically invented OneNote
Crap, I was hoping to invent file systems.