for being theown guy who started and still maintains lead -- lennox.st computer i used was my grandfather's. 12.ink i was 11 or the computer used a very traditional language called basic. my sister says that the first thing i showed her was the one that everybody starts with when you print ag basic, basically it is saying, print that string forever. she claims that i made it right ite ot " sarah is the which is unlikely because we were not always the best of friends. but maybe i was trying to impress her. when i was 15, that is what i did. you see code. you don't have to think about it. you look at something and you know what it does. if you are not a programmer, you think it is almost noise. but if you have been doing it a long time, you can read it like any other language. you can write code that looks beautiful, but doesn't actually solve the problem. which is why still working on projects 25 years later. it's hard to write a code. alix: make sure to pick up a special to the issue of bloomberg businessweek on programming and coding. it is a must-rea

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