Using it, ordinary, non-programmer-type people can put together themed pages that amass tweets, images, music, videos etc.

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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.

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It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it replaces the corpse-like pallor of the computer programmer with a ruddy glow.

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If the millions of internet-connected Macs are left open to attack then this increases the chance that an effective Trojan or piece of spyware will reach critical mass and spread rapidly, and it also increases the incentive for a bright programmer to write Mac-specific malware that could affect me.

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It turned out that the programmer who had built the link between the front-end sales system and the back-end inventory system had somehow managed to duplicate a line of code.

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It is being sued by a patent-holding company acting on behalf of a dead Dutch programmer called Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer.

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