I want to just use it, I shouldn't have to worry about what variables I use inside of it, I have shouldn't have to worry about where that is in the code, I should be able to just abstract it away. And that's what we want to add today, are those two things.

我只是想使用它,我不用考虑我在这段代码中,使用的是什么变量,我完全不用考虑代码的内容,只要抽象就好,我们今天想补充的内容就是这两点。

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And I also didn't want to leave you thinking this was all about abstract ideology.

我也不想让你们以为,这些都是抽象的意识形态

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Like in any other invention, nobody knows what will work and abstract theory doesn't guide you completely.

正如其他的创新一样,没有人知道哪些是可行的,有时候理论完全无法指导实践

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"When the details aren't abstract and people are evaluating actual situations and people, the stakes seem much higher for calling behaviour sexual harassment, " says Justine Tinkler, an assistant professor of sociology at Louisiana State University.

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This wasn't abstract theory to him.

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She added the decision to switch from the party's previous system of having two principal speakers followed "the realisation that people don't respond to abstract ideas".

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