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Because programming requires forgetting, developers should weigh the costs of their abstractions and who those abstractions leave out.

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  1. Phil Hagelberg

    Programmer known online as technomancy

    Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.

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