Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that website obsession...
When Sam A. Yagan '99 and his friends founded a for-profit Web site last year, the hardest part wasn't writing code or attracting advertisers but simply balancing the work with school responsibilities...
...firm has also argued that computer programmers can more easily develop programs that need to communicate with Internet Explorer and Windows because Microsoft provides ready-made computer code...
...fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary, fix its bugs. MORE...
...main core concept in all the computer code is standard for each school," Tseng said. "The way you personalize [for a school] is through the data--textbook lists--and you also need marketing...