When I was dealing with the first years of my CS degree, I complained all the time that most of the exams were pure math: everybody kept saying that it would have been a good basis for the advanced topics, yadda yadda but I was’t so inclined to see that strategic value after days and days of calculus exercises :-). Well, years later I attended the Image Elaboration class: after few deconvolutions for correcting the infamous reversed mirror of Hubble, we met the Radon transform. THAT is a piece of beauty, which allows to transform (hence the name) a bunch of density values in a beautiful CT scan wich is now commonplace. Would I need to have passed Calculus I, Calculus II an Cybernetic to invent it or even just understand it? Definitely yes. Would a doctor need to know all that math to understand from a CT scan that my right ankle is messed up (by improper use)? That’s a resounding no, for him the CT machinery can be a magical black box as long as it works.<\/P>
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At the same way, knowing WS-* is useful if you want to figure out HOW InfoCard perform its magic; and without WS-* as enabler happening right now, the reach of the whole idea may be way narrower. But does the user need to know anything of it? NOPE. It’s just a perfectly natural metaphor of what is already happening IRL.
It’s like it should be: as the complexity sinks down in the platform layers, the upper levels are empowered to make more things, better, more easily.<\/P>
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When I was dealing with the first years of my CS degree, I complained all the time that most of the exams were pure math: everybody kept saying that it would have been a good basis for the advanced topics, yadda yadda but I was’t so inclined to see that strategic value after days and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,9,86,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-ws","category-identity","category-infocard","category-wild-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
’nuff said, in the next posts I’ll drop the philosophy routine and I’ll go in some more detail. Because some of us aren’t happy with just using things, we *want*<\/EM><\/STRONG> to know how it works. Isn’t it? \ud83d\ude09<\/P><\/p>\n