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Facebook, etc., it was just that he had gotten a bit too cocky and a bit too sloppy.

It was also a lesson for me to be less cocky, and take the blame sometimes.

To top it off the new developer is cocky, can't handle feedback, and doesn't really listen.

Some people will tell you that you are cocky, or negative just for hiding the fact that they are afraid by you.

It's akin to letting some cocky hacking superstar mess up with the production server.

I was once a student in the United States, back then I was young, cocky and arrogant.

The original paper is not quite as cocky (at least not in the abstract, but I don't have full access).

Not being cocky, I really think the only difference was that I was selling myself whereas they were just answering questions.

Since you're feeling cocky, have a look at the Zope/Plone source.

I was never cocky but at one point, it will get to your head.

The Finns got too cocky for their own good.

Got to chat with him and even went to eat something and he turned out to be a really nice guy, laid back, not cocky at all.

That's pretty much a definition of "star/ninja/rock-star" developers - cocky know-it-alls who openly consider themselves smarter than the rest.

In general the tone comes across as a mix between cocky and patronising ("this book contains invaluable information" - how modest).

Seems they entered this whole thing with this cocky approach of "now we'll show 'em, them dumb fucks!".

At the time I was young and cocky so I would have said "basic stupidity." With greater experience, I can see it was more nuanced than that, so let's call it management hubris.