When I was an intern at Yahoo working on OAuth back in 2008 (2007? It was long ago and I'm old) I had the pleasure of implementing an internal tool for generati

When I was an intern at Yahoo working on OAuth back in 2008 (2007? It was long ago and I'm old) I had the pleasure of implementing an internal tool for generating OAuth 1.0 URLs, which meant encoding a lot of things in query parameters. My tool did not generate URLs which were compatible with Yahoo's implementation (certain parameters effectively should be encoded twice, which my tool did). The implementing engineer insisted my tool was wrong, cited my status as a lowly intern, and even pulled out the OAuth spec and bent over backwards to say how his implementation was correct and I'm clearly reading it wrong. It literally took bringing in Eran Hammer-Lahav to weigh in on the topic to say I was correct, at which point the engineer agreed that of course that was correct. I got zero acknowledgment or apology for the days of ad hominem attacks against me. I did learn an important lesson that more senior people are not always right, and as someone who's usually more senior than my colleagues now I try to remember it daily.