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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted. Java’s libraries were rich and powerful.

Java 66
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

Java 107
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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!). I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.