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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:49PM (#18243046)
It's referring to the engineer's disease:

https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee...

You see it in popular commentary sometimes- the ideas of engineers, often specifically software engineers, claiming unique knowledge by deriving from first principles, in fields they are but laymen in.

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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Kiro on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:09PM (#18243253)
I rather trust an engineer in random subjects than anyone else that is not a professional in the field.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:17PM (#18243342)
Why? Why not doctors? Physicists? Geologists? Scientists of other disciplines? Mathematicians? Statisticians? Why give engineers- and I presume, software engineers, specifically- that extra credit?
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by pathseeker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:47PM (#18243649)
Clearly because software engineers are the only people gifted with the true ability to reason. All other lowly professions just memorize facts in books. /s
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Kiro on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:50PM (#18243686)
People really seem to hate software engineers here.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:16PM (#18243889)
People dislike arrogance, and are embarrassed by peers giving their field a bad name through arrogance.
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