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throwaheyy on April 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I wished more developers knew about databas...

Exactly. Without abstractions, developers would never be able to get anything done. Every task would be dozens of new rabbit holes.

dcolkitt on April 23, 2020 [–]

The problem is that all abstractions are leaky in some way or another. If you're going to use an abstraction, you should at least learn enough about it to know where to put the buckets.

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