On 26 October 2010 20:30, Michael Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

>> I *facepalm*ed. ENGINEER HUBRIS IS NOT WHAT WIKIPEDIA IS FOR!

> No, but it's what much of Wikipedia was written with.


+1

Actually, it was the computer stuff that was the first area of
Wikipedia that I found actually useful as a first place to look. Now
it's *everything*, and I am daily awed at the utterly breathtaking
thing that we have, in fact, built here.

There's a place for applied engineer hubris[1]. With due caution.


- d.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/engineers%20and%20woo

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