The problem with this is the community-supported techie-self-righteous attitude transfers to personal dealings with co-workers in a business or management role.

The problem with this is the community-supported techie-self-righteous attitude transfers to personal dealings with co-workers in a business or management role. This is HACKER News, but part of being a hacker is understanding the problem enough to be able to decompose it and work efficiently. The lack of business-acumen and "self-blinding" that HN does merely reflects the age or experience of the community. As Hackers, we should try to fully understand the business roles, the management, and WHY we are choosing software to solve a problem. Before there were PCs, software wasn't a business model. Now we have it backwards, we build software companies, not businesses. The only guarantee when you start a tech start up (or less misleading: a Software company) is that you will write software. It does not mean someone will by it or you. As a hacker to the bone with a CS degree and no formal education in the other aspects of start up life I say we swallow our collective pride, admit we don't yet understand 95% of what other business units do, and actually apply ourselves to getting proficient at it.