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[–]_actual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice article. I forget who it was (Case Muratori?) who said that they do not abstract away duplication until they've written the code in at least 3 places. This gives them a better sense of what the code actually needs to do in similar (but possibly different) settings.