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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by mooreds on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:18PM (#18348948)
I wrote a post on this over a decade ago: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/134

It pointed out what I thought were special reasons why developers think they have the answers, even in disciplines wildly different than software development.

Includes:

* need to ask questions

* detail orientation

* knowing (and being well compensated for) knowing about something difficult

I'm older and wiser now and hold my tongue when talking to experts in other fields, but I did my fair share of, say, reading contracts or patents in my day.

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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by eksemplar on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:20AM (#18351917)
This is an excellent write up of exactly what I meant.

I should have said arrogance really, young developers often remind me of the conversation between yoda and kenobi on the arrogance of anakin in the clone wars.

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