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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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elegance in programming

The benefit of these criteria of elegance in programming is that they establish a clear grounding for the evaluation of approaches to a problem. This set of criteria emerging from programming as a self-referent discipline it works on the level of disciplinary formalization, as a set of metrics that…

—p.88 Software Studies: A Lexicon Elegance (87) missing author
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buttons force decisions into binary choices

[...] buttons force decisions into binary choices. There is no way of answering that one partially agrees, has not realized the consequences of accepting, or does not care, even though these would probably be franker answers from most users. Buttons are verbs that rule out tenses other than present…

—p.34 Button (31) missing author
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more finely exclude the poor from public services archive/mc433

[...] Since the massification of computing they have in some small ways also been able to construct themselves in relation to other forms of life. (In the sense that Ludwig Wittgenstein means when he says, "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.") This self-sufficiency of software, in …

—p.6 Introduction (1) by Matthew Fuller