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		misterS on Feb 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How A Pull Request Rocked My World epoll() (or its predecessor poll()) is a kind of low-level API function, whereas polymorphism is a general and fundamental programming concept.

eps on Feb 3, 2013 [–]

It's irrelevant. The point is that either was an example of dramatically different way of looking at things. "You don't know what you don't know, but now you do."

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