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.
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.
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.
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.
Which features, are making you consider MongoDB? I'm asking because I wrote a (really short and small) MongoDB-ish abstraction layer over SQLite the other day (https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish), and it seems to me that it's trivial to emulate the MongoDB queries and various other features over SQL without all the hassle of it eating your data or requiring 100 GB of RAM for a few indices.
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.
A lot of people selling on Etsy are doing so for some kind of fulfillment, as a way of covering the cost of their hobby and feeling like their work is bringing delight to others.
Then, there are sellers that are based outside the US with far different production economics.
And of course, there are the deluded sellers who are trying to be profitable and can't get there.
Many of the sellers ARE profitable but it takes a while to get them there. The actual 'formula' to figure out how to correctly price their items is passed around in the forums. Nothing wrong with this but it does show you that most sellers don't have a clue when they first open a shop. They just want to sell anything at any price.
I know! I love it as a place to shop, would never try to make money as a seller. But if they wanted to change that, they could -- run calculations for sellers as to how much they should charge to be profitable, all the stuff that the average seller wouldn't think about.
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.
aliexpress,taobao,ebay,amazon-stores,paypal button,bitcoin,square in a busy location. lots of competition on the ad-hoc sale tip. tightly coupling this with a particular kind of item is not my cup of tea either
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.
