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Paul Irish is Goin' Goog

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That 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.

Also 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 ...

Oh, 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.

Paul 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.

Also an evangelist on the jQuery Team and co-host of yayquery podcast.

"Evangelist" is the new "blogger".

I'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"

Like 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/a...

Sorry for the bad form. Working on it.

Could be worse: 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.)

Who is Paul Irish, and why is it interesting that Google hired him?

Paul 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.

Some guy. Just switched jobs. I should start a blog so I can get front-page time on HN too.

"I should start a blog ..."

But you haven't, and you won't, and that's the difference.

Now I did. http://elblancohn.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/goin-to-work/

Vote me to the front page.

Now if you just put that same energy from being a snarky jerk into something useful you could have contributed to the world today.

You're just jealous that Paul Irish reads my blog. :)

This 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.

Oh 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.

I wish this young chap nothing but the best, but this is really not why I visit HN.

To 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.

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