A fine-looking group they were!" "My dress code story is cross-generational," writes Arthur M. Rittenberg of Piermont, N.Y., a consultant for a party goods and gifts company in Westchester County.
Three days after launch, it looks worth it: the code story was the most popular article on Bloomberg's website on Thursday and Friday, with people spending much more time on it than the average article.
Following the modest success of Minotaur, Jones programmed Bungie's next game, Pathways Into Darkness, and worked on code, level design and story development for Bungie's Marathon and Myth series.
As it happens, theatregoers on both sides of the Atlantic have for years been aware of the legendary emotional back-story to all this in the form of Hugh Whitemore's play Breaking the Code: the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant but unhappy Station X codebreaker whose homosexuality was tolerated because of his incalculable contribution to the war effort.
"Breaking the code": A story about a family seeking an explanation for a mysterious seizure disorder striking two of their children, and how using computers to mine genetic data can secure answers more quickly.
'Windtalkers,' a 2002 film starring Nicolas Cage, was based on the code talkers' story".
Hunter is well-known for her 10 books for children including The Lighthouse Santa, a New England holiday classic, and The Unbreakable Code, the story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, which was presented in 2006 by Arizona's governor, Janet Napolitano, to each of Arizona's 100,000 fourth-graders.
Only after 1968, when the code-talkers' story was declassified, did the fame and honours begin a bit embarrassingly, he said to flow.He mourned the suffering and injustice of his people's past, but insisted that the Navajo story was ultimately of triumph, not sorrow.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Updike and JM Coetzee have critiqued him; he features in novels by Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick and David Grossman; Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh recreates the Street of Crocodiles in Andalucia; Jonathan Safran Foer has recently released Tree of Codes, a story die-cut from The Street of Crocodiles.
As with so much work on DNA coding, the story turns out to be one of modest achievements, big grants (or so one must assume – the grants are never mentioned), and promises of a revolution in therapy that lies, as always, just around the corner.
Even though they're set in the tech scene or featuring characters who can code, these stories are still fun, fast paced fiction with an emphasis on the romance -- and they're written in English, not lines of code.
