Word: coding
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...Only his behavioral code rivals Darling's dress code in formality. Arianne L. Baker, who has served on both the NJCL and NSCL executive boards with Sterling, recalls the lengths he would go to legitimate himself when he called her house regarding NJCL business. "He would always tell my parents exactly who he was and why he was calling, and then when I answered, he would tell me again that it was 'Sterling Darling, NJCL editor, calling from Texas.'" The two of them had already known each other for many months. Neha N. Patel served on two executive boards with...
...your own. Putin, he says, "applies these principles to life in general." But a dedicated ex-agent admits that the system drills in some less positive unwritten rules. Don't say anything you don't need to say. Be underestimated. Putin, says this former spy, "will apply the same code of behavior to representing his country...
...List-ending abbr. 16. Successes for John Rocker 18. The Waste Land monogram 19. Humdinger 21. Auction ending? 22. Consort of Caesar 23. Joe Cocker's Cry Me __ 25. Spain's Prime Minister, who scored a landslide 26. Virginia Governor who okayed creation of an Internet transaction code 28. Apples, pears and such 31. Big name in Internet software 34. Demo unit, for short 35. Like Anderson in '80: Abbr. 36. __Corell, U.N. team leader in Cambodia 38. Roofer's gunk 39. It's offering PCs to its employees 41. Code-cracking org. 42. Sacrificial sites...
Shocking as it sounds, there are Internet professionals actually concerned with creating something besides catchy names and 300% annual stock returns. These are the "coders," or programmers, working 24/7 in Silicon Valley's fluorescent-lighted anthills. Code Rush follows doughnut-gobbling Netscape coders as they scramble to produce a new version of their Web browser and keep their company from being trampled by Microsoft. This no-frills hour is a valuable look at the hamster wheel of exhilarating and life-sucking work that powers the dot-com wealth generator...
...fitting that college campuses are the breeding ground for these infectiously growing programs. Founder Shawn Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...