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of triangles, the illusion of three dimensions is lost. Whenever we work at an abstract level, we risk being exposed to its inner guts at some point. Joel Spolsky, a computer scientist who worked on Microsoft Excel, proposed the Law of Leaky Abstractions to explain this. An example of his law in action is the T