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stymaartoday at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

> Code duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction

This is tautological though, it's like saying “starving is much better than eating the wrong food” (for instance: eating quick lime).

Of course you'll always find a way to do things wrong in a way that is costlier than not doing anything.


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blauditoretoday at 6:24 PM

Sure, but obviously that sentence implies that wrong abstractions are fairly common.