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Ambient. It never taxes my brain and helps me focus: Brian Eno (Music for Airports, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks), Sigur Ros, Four Tet, Cliff Martinez (Traffic, Solaris).

It sounds like an extension of the T9 predictive text system present on every cell phone I've ever had. If so, it'll probably suffer the same difficulties: There are many more edge cases when you have fewer keys. Typing titles, acronyms and symbols all are painfully slow on T9, you have to click 3 or 4 times to get the desired character.

A good, in-depth background on the company and their methods: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-flight...

Seems like domain expertise in difficult fields is increasingly being valued.

Plone/Zope are difficult, but the compactness of Python combined with the clarity of the design make digging in not terribly difficult. Understanding every aspect of the stack is difficult, Zope is everything from the HTTP server to the (object) Database, to the templating language (TAL). All those different pieces are difficult to keep in your head, but I'd still give it a hand up over most Java stacks: keeping pieces of the system in your head is easy.