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If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.

06/19/2022

If you look at forces that improved products like socks, sweaters, and Twinkies,the engine that drives that system is economics. It’s economics that breaks down for software so that it remains indefinitely in its present primitive stage of evolution.

— Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming

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06/17/2022

It is important to note that the definition doesn’t mandate any specific framework, API, or feature. As long as you are continuously reading data from an unbounded dataset, doing something to it, and emitting output, you are doing stream processing.

— Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino, Kafka

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06/16/2022

…historical narratives … are verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences.

— Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse

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