He wrote code for his site, Auction Web, at age 28 and renamed it eBay after his first choice, Echo Bay, was already taken.

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Asked if he still codes, Zuckerberg said only for fun because if he wrote code for Facebook he would be in charge of fixing it.

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Duran told me he wrote The Money Code for his sister, in her late 30s.

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He wrote his first code, a how-to guide to juggling, then started writing reviews of software games.

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"We would also exchange mobile numbers in code, " he wrote.

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"We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code, " he wrote.

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If Steve Jobs wrote the Internal Revenue Code, he would have started with simplicity.

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In 2009 and 2010, he wrote hundreds of posts in flawless English, invited other software developers to help him improve the code.

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But in a follow up, Mr Mearns wrote to Mr Gove saying he had "refused to answer questions about an alleged breach of the code of conduct for special advisers".

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"Originally created to serve the development of our sport, the Code has mutated into a time bomb that we are wholly unable to contain, " he wrote.

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