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there is no safe abstraction. the word literally means "pulling out"

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you know you're in trouble when you discover it's been leaking

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that one was one of my least favorite spolsky posts, right after the one against ab initio reworking

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wait did he invent that? because I always took the concept for granted

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I'm getting dissonance from that post, his definition of abstraction is weird