You're looking at this backwards. The responsibility is on *you* to communicate this out and demonstrate that your system is unique and genuinely useful. There is nothing wrong with your audience, and you're alienating them with negative posts like this.
The hyperbole really isn't flattering either. Please don't compare your work to Thomas Edison's, or call people "truly lazy" if they prefer a quick video overview to spending time with the software itself. I much prefer watching someone show off unfamiliar software before taking the plunge and evaluating it myself - that's not lazy, it's a better use of my time!
Your ego might not like to admit it, but you could have produced something with limited to no actual utility. You could have wasted time, effort and money by forgetting to *talk to people first* about their needs or do adequate research. That's a pretty fundamental mistake, but hopefully one you can learn from.
Finally, Didgets is far from unique. There have been papers and implementations of database file systems and metadata-based file systems for decades. For example, a simple search would have revealed links like:
Back in the early 2000s, Microsoft looked at migrating the file system to SQL Server before Vista was released. This would have supported metadata-based filtering and querying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
This article was meant to be taken with a bit of 'tongue-in-cheek' (especially the title). But after re-reading it, I can see how it could come off as a rant. Some forms of communication are still really hard on the Internet. My frustrations were mainly directed at a few individuals who claim to be data experts but wouldn't even try out the system. I did not mean the casual reader who doesn't have the time to check out every new thing that comes along.
I can assure you that I did a ton of research before starting this project. I spent decades working with file systems and databases. When writing the code for PartitionMagic years ago, I had to know the inner-workings of file systems intimately. Same with the disk backup software and network file systems I worked on.
Of course the idea of attaching meta-data tags to files is nothing new. But that feature is just a small part of what Didgets is designed to do. Microsoft and others figured out long ago that users needed a better way to organize and search for file data. I was one of the most disappointed when they couldn't make it work right and cancelled WinFS. I started the design for Didgets soon after that.
There are several projects like the ones you linked to that got started but fizzled out because their inventors didn't have the stamina or resources to finish them. Making a whole new data management system is really hard (believe me, I know).
I hope you will actually try out the software and see for yourself what it can really do.
looks like the downloads on https://didgets.com/download is not working, i only get 'sample data', several csv and one json file, while the page says there should be a 'DidgetBrowser.exe'.
Ted Nelson didn't have the skills to bring hypertext to the market so it was subsumed in a less robust manner by the web. It takes a special kind of person to bring an idea to a reality.
You're looking at this backwards. The responsibility is on *you* to communicate this out and demonstrate that your system is unique and genuinely useful. There is nothing wrong with your audience, and you're alienating them with negative posts like this.
The hyperbole really isn't flattering either. Please don't compare your work to Thomas Edison's, or call people "truly lazy" if they prefer a quick video overview to spending time with the software itself. I much prefer watching someone show off unfamiliar software before taking the plunge and evaluating it myself - that's not lazy, it's a better use of my time!
Your ego might not like to admit it, but you could have produced something with limited to no actual utility. You could have wasted time, effort and money by forgetting to *talk to people first* about their needs or do adequate research. That's a pretty fundamental mistake, but hopefully one you can learn from.
Finally, Didgets is far from unique. There have been papers and implementations of database file systems and metadata-based file systems for decades. For example, a simple search would have revealed links like:
http://dbfs.sourceforge.net/
https://www.skytopia.com/project/articles/filesystem.html#intro
(Both of which are from 2004.)
Back in the early 2000s, Microsoft looked at migrating the file system to SQL Server before Vista was released. This would have supported metadata-based filtering and querying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
This article was meant to be taken with a bit of 'tongue-in-cheek' (especially the title). But after re-reading it, I can see how it could come off as a rant. Some forms of communication are still really hard on the Internet. My frustrations were mainly directed at a few individuals who claim to be data experts but wouldn't even try out the system. I did not mean the casual reader who doesn't have the time to check out every new thing that comes along.
I can assure you that I did a ton of research before starting this project. I spent decades working with file systems and databases. When writing the code for PartitionMagic years ago, I had to know the inner-workings of file systems intimately. Same with the disk backup software and network file systems I worked on.
Of course the idea of attaching meta-data tags to files is nothing new. But that feature is just a small part of what Didgets is designed to do. Microsoft and others figured out long ago that users needed a better way to organize and search for file data. I was one of the most disappointed when they couldn't make it work right and cancelled WinFS. I started the design for Didgets soon after that.
There are several projects like the ones you linked to that got started but fizzled out because their inventors didn't have the stamina or resources to finish them. Making a whole new data management system is really hard (believe me, I know).
I hope you will actually try out the software and see for yourself what it can really do.
looks like the downloads on https://didgets.com/download is not working, i only get 'sample data', several csv and one json file, while the page says there should be a 'DidgetBrowser.exe'.
Fixed. Apparently my last upload to the website failed somehow.
Ted Nelson didn't have the skills to bring hypertext to the market so it was subsumed in a less robust manner by the web. It takes a special kind of person to bring an idea to a reality.