Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking advantage of a surprisingly earlywarm day in April by sunning ourselves on thegrass in the Radcliffe Yard without shoes andsocks. We were soon confronted by a messenger fromDean Cronkhite, whose office overlooked the Yard,warning us that exposing bare feet in public was agross violation of Radcliffe's code of behavior.We were ordered to reshoe immediately...
While Drudge said that the only limit onInternet postings should be their author'sconscience, Case said "there should beprivate-sector groups that come together to createa code of conduct" to which site providers wouldvoluntarily adhere...
...modify their desktops at will and remove Explorer if they so desire; and let online services that have Windows deals promote the Netscape browser anyway. Microsoft responds that stripping Explorer from Windows 98 would mean rewriting significant parts of an operating system that contains 18.2 million lines of code, thus greatly hampering its release--a dubious definition of consumer protection...
Such talk was partly the bravado of engineers who recognize that everything in the universe ends in entropy and disarray. It's also the organized religion of any successful start-up: We're working 120 hours a week, and we may be doomed even if we ship our code on time--but at least we're doomed together, so back to work...
...begin our tour checking emissions stickers on the front of cars, and then do a Code 86 by the Central T-stop, where many local drug dealers are known to hang...