[jandrewrogers]

Heh, possibly, but in practice it usually appears to stem from complete disinterest -- it is an assignment and they do minimal background investigation. I go along with it, but in one extreme case I had a PE-type flatly accuse me of not understanding the theoretical details of a particular algorithm, being unaware that I invented it (and I never mentioned that). When it gets to that point, it is a lost cause.

Some computer science domains are worse than others. Spatial is particularly bad because very few computer scientists realize the theoretical foundations of spatial data structures are completely different than the more ordinary ones they are familiar with -- their intuitions don't apply.