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Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by mkl »

hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Just change the name. It'll be easier and more cost effective in the long run.

I've started working with some software called STACK recently, and it's almost impossible to find anything by searching (go ahead and try!). If it was a commercial product they would be sunk.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by mkl »

azinman2 wrote: post #84
surround wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

𝗕𝗲

I’ve never seen bold in an HN comment before? How do you do it?

These are Unicode characters intended for use in mathematical formulas, not text, so they break all sorts of things. It might make some sense to use them in mathematical Python code (where they do seem to work), but they're hard to type.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by ithkuil »

iso1631 wrote: post #69
schwartzworld wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how hard would it be to learn BASIC using Google? "Basic Programming" is going to have a lot of irrelevant results.

DDG'd BASIC programming all the results were about BASIC, the wiki page to start with, then * BASIC Programming : 7 Steps - Instructables * Learn More - Just BASIC * The History of the BASIC Programming Language * Programming in BASIC: the absolute beginner tutorial * FreeBASIC Language | Home * PureBasic - A powerful BASIC programming language * Quite BASIC — fun, learning and nostalgia * World of Spectrum - Documen…

Searched BASIC programming on Google and if also returned results relevant to the actual programming language

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by dawnerd »

addaon wrote: post #106
ryukafalz wrote: post #103

I giggled at the previous company name being redacted as “[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE]” too. Not sure if that’s a common thing to do or if they made an exception for these shenanigans so they didn’t have to display the XSS.

Now someone just has to register "[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE]" as a company name...

Kinda tempted to see if Oregon would let me register [REDACTED], LLC

Only 100 dollars...

Edit: Someone beat me to it. Reg #1330411-94

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by kps »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #78
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

:oscopy ?

:wq!

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by r-w »

dylan604 wrote: post #41
razster wrote: post #14

I registered Be for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.

clearly, it was older as now it would be encouraged to use Be

Be, be, but don’t be. That's an illegal act of violence.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by kps »

saalweachter wrote: post #72
hliyan wrote: post #18

On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Back when I worked at a comparison shopping engine, I had a bit of a laugh when I saw that the indexing pipeline was generating error messages because the "clean" function returned empty for some products in the feed from Amazon, because they had names like "++++++". It was usually musical albums that liked to have names that made it impossible for fans to find the music.

In another era, “+++ATH” would have been a good name.

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by r-w »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #48

For a minute I thought their name was (without the quotes) "[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE]". Seems like a regulation to add "computer code like expressions" to the list that requires prior approval of the Secretary of State might be useful.

That might require a bit more effort on the part of a company I know, who would have to register their logo "moz://a".

Re: That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

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Post by dylan604 »

r-w wrote: post #117
dylan604 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

clearly, it was older as now it would be encouraged to use Be

Be , be , but don’t be . That's an illegal act of violence.

isn't illegal html too? i've never seen raw text the head tag.
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