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To be fair, English is my primary language and I've been doing web development for 10 years and I didn't know why they were called radio buttons until very recently!

Thanks! I need to speak to the founders about that, it isn't my say about open sourcing unfortunately!

There's currently a non-profit in the UK working in primary schools with kids aged 9-11 called Code Club. They use MIT's Scratch to teach children how to programming using drag and drop blocks.

Link: http://www.codeclub.org.uk/

I've been in one of the schools when they have the after school club and it's amazing how much the kids get really quickly. They're making their own games without needing any help from the assistants, the drag and drop element of Scratch makes it a lot easier than getting syntax wrong and getting frustrated. Some of the kids love it so much that they're disappointed when it's half term and they can't do it that week. One kid now wants to be "a programmer or stuntman" when he grows up.

They're in around 300 schools in the UK now and have roughly 15 children per club, so that's an extra 4000+ children in the UK learning to code each week.

Disclaimer: I help out Code Club and develop their site

They're probably in the "yellow badge" section of Google:

http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/private/portfolio/4j7e/704...

Could you elaborate on why?

Try adding a background color to your ::-webkit-scrollbar

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

Campaign Monitor recommends having emails at a maximum of 600px (near bottom of link):

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/

The first post on 43folders was Aug 31 2004, so probably not

No it doesn't, there's details about the algorithm here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

Out of interest (and as a freelance developer), could you explain what the differences between positions are?

Clickable:

http://twinfluenc.es/

http://twinfluenc.es/c4cj3gi4

Ocupop: http://ocupop.com/

Unless it was a joke by 37signals to attract visitors to their job board.

And a node.js version too: https://gist.github.com/700995

You can get a .mobi, .epub and PDF version in the eBook bundle on Pragmatic Bookshelf:

http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...

Ah, that's my fault actually, it occasionally chokes on punctuation (especially ampersands), I plan to fix that this weekend. It's not an official Y Combinator twitter feed by the way, it's just something I knocked up in my spare time.

For UK people, they're planning to relaunch here by the end of the year:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a200103/netflix-to-r...

There's already something called Hummingbird that does that: http://mnutt.github.com/hummingbird/

Just a warning, this article is from September 2009

Might not be 100% relevant but there's a Node Redis client and Redis can now do publish and subscribe, check out the examples here:

http://github.com/fictorial/redis-node-client/tree/master/ex...

As does most of the world.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Doesn't necessarily make you happier though...

From a design point of view, I think it's really great, but there's a couple of tweaks I would make. First, I would ditch the Zapfino script font, it's quite distracting and jars with the other fonts. Secondly, I would slightly increase the leading on the main body text (something like line-height: 150% works quite well for me). Apart from these small things, I think it looks lovely, keep up the good work!

As a Javascript developer, I totally agree. Something that is easier for beginners doesn't imply it's not useful for seasoned professionals though.

Oh yeah, jQuery is far sexier than plain ol' Javascript (look at the amount of tutorials on sites like Smashing Magazine), because messing around with jQuery is far easier for the beginner than playing with Javascript

Because it wouldn't get voted up if it was just "Javascript function for crashing IE6"?

On a slightly related note, the @newsycombinator bot hit 10,000 followers yesterday: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator

Check out the source, it's randomly generated Javascript

I made a Twitter-bot a while ago for HN, I find it useful and there's over 7000 people following it now. It's only new stories in the top 5 though, mainly to stop information overload.

http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/