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Paul Irish is Goin' Goog
- gjm11 17y agoWho is Paul Irish, and why is it interesting that Google hired him?
- sh1mmer 17y agoPaul is a jQuery core contributor and built a few particularly notable things like Modernizr which helps you test HTML5 features which are not yet fully supported in browsers. He also does the yayquery podcast.
- elblanco 17y agoSome guy. Just switched jobs. I should start a blog so I can get front-page time on HN too.
- jamesbritt 17y ago"I should start a blog ..." But you haven't, and you won't, and that's the difference.
- elblanco 17y agoNow I did. http://elblancohn.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/goin-to-work/ http://elblancohn.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/goin-to-work/ Vote me to the front page.
- sh1mmer 17y agoNow if you just put that same energy from being a snarky jerk into something useful you could have contributed to the world today.
- kburn 17y agoThis is exactly why I stopped posting here. I've sent an email to YDN. I'm sure they don't want this kind of representation out on the open internet.
- elblanco 17y agoOh don't get your panties all in a bunch. I take it as a personal statement not as a representative of YDN. I've sent a counter email to YDN that I wasn't really all that offended.
- elblanco 17y agoYou're just jealous that Paul Irish reads my blog. :)
- joe-mccann 17y agoPaul Irish is a major contributor to a number of OS web projects and a leading evangelist for HTML5 and CSS3. Yeah, like you said, he's a nobody.
- RedWolves 17y agoAlso an evangelist on the jQuery Team and co-host of yayquery podcast.
- gaius 17y ago"Evangelist" is the new "blogger".
- ableal 17y agoCould be worse: http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/04/08/linkedin-ninja-job-title/ http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/04/08/linkedin-ninja-job-title... Soon to be followed by "pirate", I expect, if this goes on ... (The LI blog also graphs evangelist-vs-guru; the latter is on the outs. No units in either graph.)
- jamesbritt 17y agoI've met a few people with "Evangelist" titles and I got the sense it meant "nice guy we don't really want to fire but have no real job for"
- zackattack 17y agoLike Dave Morin on the Facebook platform? How bout Twilio? I'm sure Twilio's trying to actively waste money http://twilio.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/developerevangelist/ajrtFwiPyr35jUeJe4aGWH http://twilio.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/developerevangelist/a...
- zackattack 17y agoSorry for the bad form. Working on it.
- daniel02216 17y agoThat mouse-tracking canvas stuff in the background of his blog is pretty cool. I didn't notice it until it tracked my mouse pointer from the text to the tab bar.
- Hexstream 17y agoOh, so that's why that page was burning a hole through my CPU... I could do away with "features" like these, thank you very much.
- ableal 17y agoAlso good for pegging one CPU, in the quad-core Linux machine I'm using (Firefox 3.5). At least it skips around the cores. I think I'll miss Flash in the near future (especially the part of not having a Flash plug-in). I'm afraid the 'blink' tag is back, and packing some heat ...
- zackattack 17y agoTo all the haters, paul_irish has been consistently one of the most helpful people in #jquery on freenode, and I'm so happy for him. If he's the one who's going to be writing HTML5 documentation for Chrome, then that's EXCELLENT news for developers, because I know from personal experience that he has a very friendly and intelligent way of communicating.
- microcentury 17y agoI wish this young chap nothing but the best, but this is really not why I visit HN.