Re: du

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: du
Date: 12:24 on 01 Oct 2005
* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-01 12:50]:
> Having dialog boxes refresh themselves when you don't know the
> latency or throughput of the channel to the file system is
> hateful.

Pretending the network is just like a local filesystem is
hateful. Cf. the eight fallacies of distributed computing.

Regards,
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