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curprev 05:5605:56, 5 February 2024 Croomfolk talk contribs 6,365 bytes +50 Adding local short description: "Faulty software abstraction", overriding Wikidata description "software abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away" undo Tag: Shortdesc helper

curprev 17:5317:53, 28 September 2023 Boud talk contribs 6,316 bytes −4 →History: earlier = when? 1992 undo
curprev 17:5017:50, 28 September 2023 Boud talk contribs 6,320 bytes +210 →Examples: clarify; it's a bit informal using first names only, but attribution is needed for a claim that the git design is a leaky abstract and why (feel free to add their surnames if they're obvious) undo

curprev 12:0812:08, 23 April 2023 Jens Meiert talk contribs m 6,110 bytes +14 Added missing code markup, improved comment placement (which should go to Talk page?) undo

curprev 18:3918:39, 22 December 2022 173.231.115.2 talk 6,096 bytes +45 →Examples: The TCP example in Spolsky's article has: "your pet snake has chewed through the network cable" (he could have used the example of WiFi these days). I tried to reflect that here. I think this is a bigger abstraction leak than the "potentially variable performance", because you still have to account for the fact that the connection is not reliable. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 23:0423:04, 7 December 2021 JPxG talk contribs 6,051 bytes +5 sick of this false positive undo

curprev 09:1009:10, 7 July 2020 LastGeniusUA talk contribs m 5,953 bytes +181 Added a mention of Joel Spolsky's coining the term and popularizing it undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 15:3915:39, 28 September 2019 Monkbot talk contribs m 5,432 bytes −1 →History: Task 16: replaced (1×) / removed (0×) deprecated |dead-url= and |deadurl= with |url-status=; undo Tag: AWB

curprev 21:0521:05, 20 April 2019 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 5,430 bytes +147 Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta14) undo

curprev 13:4613:46, 13 April 2019 AnomieBOT talk contribs m 5,283 bytes +32 Dating maintenance tags: {{Dead link}} {{Failed verification}} undo
curprev 11:4611:46, 13 April 2019 37.254.81.104 talk 5,251 bytes −65 →History: Problem undo

curprev 03:4403:44, 6 November 2018 Materialscientist talk contribs 5,316 bytes −148 Rewrote obscure lead. Use reliable references if you wish to significantly change it undo
curprev 03:2703:27, 6 November 2018 Materialscientist talk contribs m 5,464 bytes +1 Reverted edits by 2601:484:C302:6327:8D66:790A:1FE1:5124 (talk) to last version by 198.52.26.32 undo Tag: Rollback

curprev 21:4521:45, 22 August 2018 198.52.26.32 talk 5,464 bytes +5 Added the word 'with' for clarity undo
curprev 21:4521:45, 22 August 2018 198.52.26.32 talk 5,459 bytes −1 Removed some extra words undo
curprev 21:4421:44, 22 August 2018 198.52.26.32 talk 5,460 bytes +128 Clarified the idea of a leaky abstraction in the opening paragraph. undo

curprev 22:2922:29, 7 August 2018 2601:646:c602:579:94b0:5182:60ab:487f talk 5,332 bytes −4 fundamental limitation of the Web -> asynchronous nature of the Web undo

curprev 20:5220:52, 23 May 2018 24.227.165.242 talk 5,336 bytes −26 removed redundant use of 'protocol' (it's already the P in TCP and IP, so no need to 'ATM Machine' it) undo