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Re:First Blog Post: Abstractions are Generous by vasco on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:33PM (#4024232)
"Electrical engineers work with Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws, not the nightmare that is Maxwell’s Equations."

I have a strong feeling you are not an electrical engineer.

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Re:First Blog Post: Abstractions are Generous by jimhoff11 on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:40PM (#4024264)
You are right. I did not mean to suggest that electrical engineering is easy -- clearly, I know nothing about it -- but only that electrical engineering benefits from abstractions too.
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Re:First Blog Post: Abstractions are Generous by vasco on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:43PM (#4024289)
Not using Maxwell's equations is surely not one of them :)
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