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Oh not not the heckin scientists. They are always right! Dang it guys it's our fault, not Science. I just wish it was 1801 again so we could parade around streets once more in worship of the god of Rationality!

The truth is that making money off of software is not a software problem. It's a business problem, to be solved with business skills and intuition.

I always think of the remote ok guy who makes most if his products in php, jQuery, as sqlite3. Software engineers engineering sense is ultimately what holds them back. I know it does for me.

Well meaning overbearing incompetency seems little better. Has there been a more thorough refutation of the promised land of technocrats than these past couple months?

The thing is - I get it. I thi k it's cool when people show up to talk about their product or code that is mentioned on a forum. It's endearing. But when it's systematized by a large corporation, it's no longer so.

I'm so sick of Gitlab support spam in every thread that mentions any issue, making it so that critical conversations are interrupted with self serving pitches!

>I once saw Gitlab do this thing.

>Hey, Bob from Gitlab thing here. We are really trying to make thing great for our customers . Our next release of thing will do foo which we hope will fix this. Here is a link to a marketing post comparing us to GitHub. Hope that helps. Please don't mention us in a comment, or I have to do this. It hurts to live.

Please don't be facetious. The OP was clearly implying that the ones who make it ahead in such situations is that very "sophisticated" class of inveators. They surely did not mean that a literal specific investor will somehow get gains from not owning a stock he has sold. Talk about a ridiculous strawman.

What could be more irresponsible than merely staying facts without also having the diligence to additionally write some apologetics for the facts themselves.

What the reporter should have done, clearly, is get the opinion of one of those benevolent airline executives to explain why cash flow was spent on buybacks instead of literally anything else. They can tell us what we all know - that it is standard procedure and could never comprehend the complexity of corporate finance! That it was for our good, after all, in a way, and that, well, that's how Things Are.

Personally, and this is just me, we should ban the plebeians , oh I mean the uniformed, from making dangerous observations of fact!