Re: How to model searchable properties of an entity

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:4125e1bc$0$78749$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Laconic2 wrote:
>
> > mAsterdam wrote:
> >
> >>... and hide the base tables.
> >
> > I think you are onto something here. The idea needs work, but it's
> > potentially so powerful that it could result in a useful synthesis
between
> > object centered thinking and data centered thinking. I encourage you to
> > develop this further.
>
> :-)
>
> Why do I still get warm and fuzzy feelings when I
> read such a comment? I'll take it as an excuse to go
> slightly off-topic.

First, I would not have made that comment unless I really meant it.

Second, I have watched video of people in joint problem solving meetings. If you can freeze the action and back up, you can analyze the interaction as tightly as football coaches analyze video of the plays. It turns out that most people in a group setting spend most of their creative energy destroying other people's ideas, rather than coming up with their own, or even better, adding something to another person's idea.

I see somewhat the same interaction in newsgroups. Alarge portion of reactions fall into one of these classes:

"Your idea corroborates what my vast experience already tells me. Your comments are redundant."

"Your idea contradicts what my vast experience already tells me. Your comments are erroneous."

"Your idea is disjoint from what my vast experience already tells me. Your comments are orthogonal."

"Your idea is great, but it has a fatal flaw. Therefore it should be discarded."

Now, if you wanted to stifle novelty and creativity, you couldn't do much better than the above.

My response doesn't claim joint ownership of your idea (hiding base tables) but it says that the time you have spend, and might continue spending, on this idea is likely to be fruitful. That's not a very common response. Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 15:06:24 CEST