Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisco, where I lived, I sympathized with bikers jeopardized by offensive drivers. And I understand those unfortunate souls who live in the Quad need a way to get to this zip code. But if you're so late for class you can't take the time to walk the last leg of your trip, you're probably too tired to steer your bike accurately...
Thus was born Shuttleboy, a program written in C that is several thousand lines of code long...
Pollack, a professor at Harvard medical school, argues that boys are hamstrung by "the old Boy Code--the outdated and constricting assumptions, models and rules about boys that our society has used since the 19th century." Parents, he says, must "get behind the mask" and find out their sons' real feelings...
...Dalai Lama or Deepak Chopra or even Mark McGwire. This god is a geek who wears socks with his sandals. His name is Linus Torvalds. He's 28 years old, and his religion is called Linux, after a piece of computer code he wrote for kicks in 1991, while a student at the University of Helsinki, and then loosed upon the world...
Then he did something really unusual in the make-a-quick-billion computer industry. He made Linux available for free on the Internet. More important, he released his source code, the instruction set used to create the software, so that fellow programmers could hack, hone and redistribute Linux at will. In doing so he was following a freeware tradition that goes back to the earliest days of computing...