On 26 October 2010 20:30, Michael Snow wikipedia@frontier.com 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.