[GFischer]

Are programmers and similar more likely to "break" the second Gricean maxim?

From the link: Quantity of Information

    * Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).
    * Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.

I recall a discussion here about the quantity of information we tend to give relative to the "average" person

[sp332]

I think people in general, once they start talking about a subject they are passionate about, will start giving way more information than necessary.

[spiffytech]

I think that was Philip Guo's "Geek Behaviors" piece. He writes some pretty interesting stuff:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078529