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Re:On the irony of programmers who don't like abstraction by nouney on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:16PM (#11762797)
"ActiveRecord is hardly "the depths". After ActiveRecord, your data will probably go through Ruby's I/O system, TCP stacks, IP stacks, low level kernel I/O, firmware on network cards, a database management system (itself comprising multiple layers of semantics), and will ultimately move some electrons around somewhere."

What are "the depths" according to him then?

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