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Thank you.

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Can you hear me? Yes, Sebastian? 
Can you hear me?

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So I'm Sandi Metz. 
I'm from Duke University.

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I know that you guys, some
people think of the,

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of universities as being just
like the enterprise except

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- with lower standards. [laughs]
- (audience laughs)

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There's a little truth in that. 
Honestly - there's a little truth in that.

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But also universities are places where

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we get more freedom to do,

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to be out on the leading edge
of software.

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And because of that at Duke --

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(I'm sorry, they told me to stand
back here in the light)

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At Duke we've been writing Smalltalk apps
since the early 1990's.

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So I have 10 years of experience of Smalltalk.

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So if this were a weekday, there would be

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someone in my office doing maintenance

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on a production application that's written
Smalltalk

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that does grants management 
at Duke University.

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They would be working on it right now.

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We're a little bit different than
a lot of you

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in that we don't have millions of users,

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we don't have high transaction rates,

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we don't have huge piles of data.

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But what we do have is

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applications that have been around
a long time

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and that get changed really every day.

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So, the apps that I write - I don't
actually use myself,

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so you can't really say that
"we eat our own dogfood"

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but I look at leftovers every day.

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And I have for a long long time.

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But enough about me.

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Let's talk about you.

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Because you're here,

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I'm guessing that you've written
an application.

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And even though I've never
seen that app,

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there's something I can say
about it:

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It's gonna change.