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It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.

Back when I was on Usenet, I took refuge from geeky bickering in a group about cooking...only to find people arguing the merits of Miracle Whip versus mayonnaise. Here's a lesson I learned very early on after I started working full-time as a programmer (and that's a peculiar sentence for me to read, as I no longer program for a living). So I'd go down the hall to the person who wrote it in the first place and start asking questions...and find out that I didn't have the whole picture, the problem was messier than it first appeared, and there were perfectly valid reasons for the code being that way.

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