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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere

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  1. skybrian
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    Well sure, but it seems like the question is whether it can be entirely hidden behind a good abstraction? We aren't asking mobile phone users to understand how the radios work, or the...

    Well sure, but it seems like the question is whether it can be entirely hidden behind a good abstraction? We aren't asking mobile phone users to understand how the radios work, or the wear-leveling on the flash memory. If there are truly no knobs that need tweaking then you don't need to understand it.

    Things that can be mostly but not entirely hidden are more difficult.

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