[lilsoso]

Written language works a little different than programming: the references can be a little looser, a little more imprecise -- particularly if the vehicle is a written comment on a message board.

I was attempting to quickly outline an attitude, and orientation, that affects the tech industry as a whole. This attitude is not limited to currently employed software engineers, founders of tech companies, or people with accounts on Hacker News. And no, this attitude is not so pervasive that it affects everyone in the tech industry. But yes, this attitude is probably more common amongst software engineers than say people in marketing within the same industry.

My observation isn't even novel: we can find echoes of it all over as I briefly tried to point out.

[watwut]

This has nothing to do with language vs programming. This is about your want to use loose definitions so that you can generalize non engineers behavior and combine them with engineers stereotypes so that you can blame engineers for actions of non engineers in same industry you dislike.

So you had used language to build image of autistic charismatic rule breaker. So I will add that you don't know what autism is and interacted with such person enough to know.

You still did not managed to cite a single engineer. You did not even demostrated knowledge of engineering culture beyond what is found on few cool sites frequented by ... enterpreneurs and many non engineers.

Afaik, if you claim that marketing is more orderly and more rules following and engineers, you should have used an example of typical marketing person action and typical engineer action. For some reason, you went with high management and enterpreneurs.