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intertwingly: Reality is Corrosive.  I love that the subtitle for intertwingly is "It's just data."  This is a great article about badly-layered abstractions and overlooked coherence considerations.  It takes off on Joel Spolsky's description of leaky abstractions.  I like to call some of these coherence failures, though others are simply bad design.  The note provides a nice account of how some of our ideas break down in reality.
posted by Dennis at 5/5/2004 10:41:44 AM