<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, coders]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, coders]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/coders http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/coders <![CDATA[Loose Wires: $10 million? Yelp!]]>
  • "Google Determined To Reintroduce Goatee To NYC." Incontrovertible photo evidence inside. [PSFK]
  • Audioblogger, the blog-by-phone service from Odeo, stopped returning my calls. Was it something I said? [Odeo via Kingsley Jegan Joseph]
  • ComScore reports that over half of MySpace's users are over 35— [ComScore]
  • —which one ad exec immediately refutes. [John DeMayo]
  • "Does anyone know anything about social networking?" asks a blogger at paidContent. Yes, he says, if we try modeling it after the oil industry. Gee, that's promising. [paidContent]
  • Naughty bloggers find instances of coders gone mad by using Google Code Search to find instances of "WTF" and "pray it works." [Supr.c.ilio.us]
  • Yelp is great and all, but why did it take another $10 million in funding? Where did the other $6 mil go, was it all stuffed down the g-strings of the girls getting wild at the startup's crazy parties? [VentureBeat]
    • ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=205656&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[Why Johnny is just another web designer]]> Sci-fi author David Brin writes in Slate Salon,

    For three years — ever since my son Ben was in fifth grade — he and I have...searched for a simple and straightforward way to get the introductory programming language BASIC to run on either my Mac or my PC....Because if you want to give young students a grounding in how computers actually work, there's still nothing better than a little experience at line-by-line programming.

    Only, quietly and without fanfare, or even any comment or notice by software pundits, we have drifted into a situation where almost none of the millions of personal computers in America offers a line-programming language simple enough for kids to pick up fast.

    Duh, that's why Johnny learned CSS instead and now trolls for web design jobs. Get with it and get online, Dad.

    Why Johnny can't code [Salon]

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