As it turned out, the lawyers were better at reading the tax code than reading the tea leaves.

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Microsoft Press has issued a book called Writing Secure Code, now required reading in the company's crash security courses for programmers.

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Once you have a community that is actively reading the code on a project, mistakes or malicious alterations are caught quickly and fixed.

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They would often insist that the answer to a legal question should consist of nothing more than reading the applicable code section, which should take no more than 20 minutes.

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Have you ever actually gone into reading the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26 USC et seq.)?

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And scientists can watch the genetic code being accessed like watching a computer reading a hard disk.

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He created the genetic algorithm that runs the app after reading programming books and forums, writing the code during his summer vacation and sending mail shots to the tech press to get coverage.

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Gov. SCHWARZENEGGER: For many months, you could not pick up a newspaper without reading about the youth dying in prison under a code of silence or abuse of force.

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But as critical and as angry as many religious leaders are about The Da Vinci Code, their main response has not been to try to stop Christians from reading the book or seeing the movie, but to meet it head on.

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Reading some of the commentary you would think that there is some special Code provision for hedge fund managers.

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