Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.202.1327961928.25230.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> >>
>> >> I can't speak for Andrei, but I discovered after 4 years of university
>> >> that I
>> >> had become much better at learning new things.
>>
>> >
>> > I believe that learning how to learn better is probably the most
>> important
>> > thing to learn at the University.
>>
>> Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. All you need to learn how to learn is a
>> library, not a $100k debt payable to useless pompous windbags. The 
>> biggest
>> thing colleges teach is that their existence is actually needed for
>> anything. And even *that* much is pure grade-A bullcrap.
>>
>> Yea, you *can* learn such things at college: just like how I can sell you 
>> a
>> $5k device to help you convert ice into water.
>>
>>
> Libraries don't give you deadlines (except for when to return your books)

Having deadlines doesn't need to cost $100k.

> or feedback on how well you are doing.

If you're relying on the tests to tell you how well you're doing, then 
you've already failed.

*You* are by far the best person to know whether *you* understand something 
or not. A school's evaluation is *NOT* for the student's sake - it's purely 
for the school's/teacher's own accountability. It's inherently innacurate, 
but needed anyway simply because they can't read your mind for an "I 
understand" or "I don't get it" - but you *can* read your own mind, so for 
the student, test results are extra time, extra money and *less* accurate, 
all for no benefit.

> Some people need that.
>