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Learn to never have a good idea

At StaffPlus this week, I was talking with some other senior technology folks about the risks that come with the weight of our opinions ("never think out loud, people will think it's an actual plan") and the sense of pressure to get it right when talking

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Code is Knowledge

In the mid-2000s (so, in ancient history) a friend of mine went to an interview at a big tech company and was asked to write the JPEG compression algorithm on a whiteboard. He didn't know that algorithm off the top of his head, which he admitted, and then

Code-sharing Update

When we decided to move SUMO to a new platform [https://www.coffeeonthekeyboard.com/the-evolution-of-sumo-339/], one of the reasons we chose Django [http://www.djangoproject.com/] was code sharing and reuse—specifically that SUMO [http://support.mozilla.com/] and AMO [https://addons.mozilla.org] would be able to share code,