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Modern spring is amazing. Look into it. It's no longer the configuration hell it was 10 years ago. Everything is convention Over configuration. It's easy to run and configure.

I love spring boot. I use two databases and solr. It's easy. And fun.

So I've been a longtime public speaker and I've also worked on websites, mostly big, for about 13 years.

One of the things that I get annoyed about are talks with too much fluff and not enough real code that the audience can use.

So I got to thinking: why not make a presentation where code is like subtitles?

I'm not trying to change the world, I'm just going to demo 5 simple (spellcheck) to complex (integrating social media live to rank results) search features in a sketch comedy format.

The 5 sketches will span 1996 to 2012. During the sketch, the audience is invited to download and run the demo that shows that search feature during the comedy sketch.

I wrote for Second City when I lived in Chicago. I've made a lot of websites happen. Now I want to entertain and give back at the same time.

So help me get on this panel.

WillyF, the last comment was a big aggressive to you to bring home the point, but I believe the main point was that even with generous predictions on their future business plan (which as far we all know doesn't exist) that facebook is overvaluated by, well, a lot.

FB only released not even close to 1/2 of their stock. The investors are still stock rich and won't sell off their shares yet. If they did, the price would tank to less than $20.

The investors will cash out, but they'll gradually release the stock to the public.

The problem is that the sheer number of shares that need to be bought won't have enough humans in our population to buy it at the price. So you're going to see this stock gradually tank as investors dump their shares into the public.

It's really a legal ponzi scheme - Facebook only makes less than 1B in real revenue and their cap is riding at 90B and falling.

I don't mind it if it hides away from a platform.

After all, that's the point of an API - to hide the dirty details.

I mean, I've not touched assembly code in over 10 years. I've not touched C++ in 10. This is a good thing, but I do remember saying the same thing about Java about hiding memory details. Now none of these languages require heavy memory management and hide nearly all those dirty details.

It doesn't seem like meteor is ready for prime time, but it is impressive (like RoR or roo) how you can make a site in less than 10 minutes.

You're absolutely right. But all frameworks have to go through these humps. Hell, I remember just 2 years ago having MongoDB in production it would regularly crash. We got rid of it in production, but I'd reconsider using it now.

Their messaging is a non-standard protocol. AMQP standard would be kick ass.

Same with their cloud search - sooo obviously solr/lucene-based but 0 exposure to the lucene syntax.

Not a big deal though, it's not like it totally locks you in to use these.

When you have a marketplace of 600K sellers, the competition is fierce. Etsy tries hard to make them profitable by offering classes online and attempts to lower costs of supplies.

I hope they can find a way to pool the cost of materials to bring low cost overhead to sellers. That would make the industry explode.

Barely any sellers are profitable on etsy. They're all housewives or hipsters that sell at amazingly low profit margins. It's a steal if you want to buy handmade stuff though.

Etsy has always had remote working coders and they've always been aggressive about hiring talent. Their CEO is a genius at doing this, which is a great trait for a tech leader.

What are some things you'd like to see added to the language that's not yet there?

Seems like a lot of the core features first get added to a language and once it's mature, most new features are enhancing the API. Hell, even Microsoft released "Object Fortran" in the 90s :)

I get the idea that the clojure language feature list seems about as complete as mature languages like Scheme and LISP, but I might be totally wrong to assume that. So, are there clojure language features that you desire which we don't have already?

Great find. Holy crap does this bring back some memories.