arrogance

And they are going to mimic his arrogance, take his risks, and think it will get them to his level.

Turns out he was right but had to suffer for a few years because of the arrogance of a few "professionals".

You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness.

You know; this guy makes some good points:"This arrogance undermines a basic security principle, never trust the client.

I gotta give them credit, in a weird sort of way, for having the arrogance/self-confidence necessary to do it.

That's perfectly fine - you don't always need to understand everything to use it - but sometimes it breeds an arrogance.

It's the arrogance and stupidity of youth facing the crotchety crankiness of experience.

"Tell me about one of your weaknesses..."At this point, hand the interviewer a card you had pre-prepared, which reads "My over-preparation sometimes comes across as arrogance".

Demonstrating this sort of arrogance to Hacker News is probably a good way to burn your bridges at the innumerable employers and business contacts that frequent the site.

And their concern is that the entrepreneurs won't keep doubling down to get to a billion dollars once they have some reasonable fraction of the investor's personal net worth?It takes the arrogance of the very rich and highly dominant to complain that they're unable to keep their top employees poor enough to stay motivated.

The tone is alienating and disrespectful, so much so that the valid criticisms of XML as a technology are completely buried by the arrogance and off-topic political and social commentary: "the current American presidency and XML have much in common", "XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape.