idlepurge, bite my shiny metal donkey! ;P
Feb. 17th, 2006 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleOnce Upon A Time...
When Hard Drives were 5 megabytes, maybe even 20, yes, megabytes, ....it might have meant something to do muck idlepurges.
Nowadays, what does it accomplish:
1) saves all of maybe 20 k or so for the database character toading ...
2) even more if there was a lot of stuff that they built, at the expense of cohesion in the muck layout
3) the disappointment of a person who returns to find all the hours they spent investing time and energy there, trashed.
So what does it accomplish any more...? It is no more than an archaic technicality, a mere protocol of a bygone day when it mattered. And the result of this unpondered remnant (not unlike a bureaucratic stamp at the department of motor vehicles) ... is a lose-lose situation all around.
I humbly submit... that idle purges may now officially become a thing of the past.
When Hard Drives were 5 megabytes, maybe even 20, yes, megabytes, ....it might have meant something to do muck idlepurges.
Nowadays, what does it accomplish:
1) saves all of maybe 20 k or so for the database character toading ...
2) even more if there was a lot of stuff that they built, at the expense of cohesion in the muck layout
3) the disappointment of a person who returns to find all the hours they spent investing time and energy there, trashed.
So what does it accomplish any more...? It is no more than an archaic technicality, a mere protocol of a bygone day when it mattered. And the result of this unpondered remnant (not unlike a bureaucratic stamp at the department of motor vehicles) ... is a lose-lose situation all around.
I humbly submit... that idle purges may now officially become a thing of the past.
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Date: 2006-02-17 06:16 pm (UTC)Idle purges are just plain hostile =O
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Date: 2006-02-18 07:20 am (UTC)But it's probably more the result of a bureaucratic automaton that makes old habits die hard. Once in a while a little reconsideration of methodology with time is a good thing... :> *hugpats*
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Date: 2006-02-18 04:32 pm (UTC)