Screengrab: http://twitter.com/#!/melanarchy

Douglas Crockford, master JavaScript programmer, author of JavaScript: The Good Parts and the popular JSlint, spoke this morning at Columbia University on Why JavaScript Matters. Apparently he spoke at Etsy earlier this week; watch it on Livestream.

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