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22 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

From that I knew that the product would Melt in your Coffee… SO JAVA (coffee) MELT. I came up with the name Mayhem because that is how I describe the crazy world of Public Relations. I kept saying what does the product do? and how can we create a brand and product awareness by choosing the right name?

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand. a look at the enterprise sector (java, for example) and take a breath. Not more than three or four years old perhaps, and keep in mind that ZERO of my Perl, Python or even Java apps gives me these problems. You now have a PCI-reportable data breach. Thank you.

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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.

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