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ArkyBeagle on June 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accidentally nonblocking

Quoth Spolsky: "All nontrivial abstractions are leaky."

This means you still have to deal with it.

catnaroek on June 6, 2016 [–]

> Quoth Spolsky: "All nontrivial abstractions are leaky."

Well, no, that's wrong. Abstractions can be made tight, but that requires discipline and hard work.

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