I have to apologize on this mailing list first for completely scaring one of potential XQuery's customers a couple of days back. (he never answered back... oups... I will always wonder if he solved his problem...)
Sorry. This was not my intent. But in my defense, maybe it is not that bad. Maybe it is a bigger lesson in this tense discussion. Maybe such tense discussions are necessary. In my defense, unfortunately the first book my father gave me to read just after I learned reading was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think%3F (...and apparently I never recovered, and I have no hope of developing a politically correct character in science. Oups ! But I wish ALL kids in the world read this as their first fairy tale book as they grow up .... I think this would make the world a MUCH happier place ..:-) ==== As the result of this (good/bad!?) education I received, the words "God's will" in general make me uncomfortable. But HECK, when "God's will" is in the same sentence with "XQuery query optimization", hell. It does FREAK ME OUT. Maybe it is time to do something. Is there ANYTHING we can do to turn this community into some scientifically driven community (... and not driven by fake "gods" because you know them first hand and you had a beer with them, or because they write longer essays) ? This is not how science works. If anything, this community will be fundamental in a major revolution that is happening now. Data Science, Open Data Initiative, to name a few of this new "keywords". Just read here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/obama-administration-releases-historic-open-data-rules-enhance-governmen or here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/universities-offer-courses-in-a-hot-new-field-data-science.html?_r=2&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer66834&; (hey, "data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21 century"... how cool is that :?)_ ====== Very likely the data will flow in this new data-centric world in either JSON or XML. Hence, whoever will need the data, will need to process it, and hence will need to know what this community knows. But if we want to be taken seriously, we need to reframe this community on a new basis. A more scientific one. Best regards, Dana
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