From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T05:40:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:15:49AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:44:06PM +0900, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
> >  
> >>[1] I'd love it if there were knowledge consultants in the world. Just
> >>like I can go to a shop and have someone assist me in buying clothes,
> >>I'd like to be able to go to someone and say "I'd like to know about x",
> >>and they would say "ah perhaps you'd like this, this and this, then",
> >>and I'd say "yes, those sound good, but this isn't quite right", etc. x
> >>could be music, or part of biology, or international relations. And then
> >>I could just drink things up and appreciate everything out there that
> >>interests me.
> >>    
> >
> >That might just be an excellent idea for how to put together the
> >university of the future -- but I'm not holding my breath.  I rather
> >suspect university "educations" will continue to be half-baked
> >checklists of topic overviews presented in the most painful
> >institutional styles available for quite some time to come.
> >  
> Maybe ... but for all practical purposes, you can do what benjohn 
> describes on the Internet. That's why I spend so much time here. :)

I do that as well, and rather enjoy it -- though it's a skill in itself,
and there aren't really "consultants" to handle it for you.

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