thomblake comments on Tool ideology - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 14 September 2011 01:59:46PM 0 points [-]

Is that something I need a justification for?

No, just curious. I have not encountered and could not imagine a use case.

Directories, in my mind, are meta-information about files, so it makes no sense to me to store an empty directory.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 September 2011 03:15:41PM 1 point [-]

I may be missing context here, but I frequently create empty directories to guide future filing/sorting behavior.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 September 2011 03:29:40PM 0 points [-]

The examples mentioned so far could be described as meta information about future intended files.