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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the dark areas of software

[...] the experience of programming seems to be somewhat different. Ellen Ullman (1997) expresses it this way: "You write some code, and suddenly there are dark, unspecified areas. All the pages of careful documents, and still, between the sentences, something is missing" (21). Rather than becoming…

—p.140 Cutting Code: Software and Sociality Extreme programming (139) by Adrian Mackenzie
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coeval

Unix was itself coeval with a particular programming language, C

—p.84 Kernel (67) by Adrian Mackenzie
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algorithms are not neutral

[...] Algorithms are not neutral formal procedures. [...] Algorithms themselves are animated: they induce movement between inputs and outputs, and are themselves caught up in diagonal movements between biological knowledge and property value, movements characteristic of the new media biotechnology …

—p.65 Algorithms (43) by Adrian Mackenzie