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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.). a look at the enterprise sector (java, for example) and take a breath. But somehow that’s all ok, since one or two Java or Python actually also had a security issue a few years ago.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

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Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Remember Java? Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing.