Re:Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
by entropy_ on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @07:57AM
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Joel Spolsky coined a term for this type of problem. The "leaky abstraction". See here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
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Re:Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
by mattbriggs on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:42AM
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It doesn't nessicarily need to be a leaky abstraction, in the case of rails (1) there was just a few miles between the path a beginner took and a pro took, which makes it real hard to stop being a beginner