Regular reddit lurker; Moderator of dozens of sub reedits including r/sex, author of jquery, so many continuous regular iterations, evangelist of js at Mozilla, now at khan academy.

A man. A machine.

"My favorite sub-reddits are fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu and starcraft. I read every f7u12 comic every day and I watch more casted Starcraft games than any other form of media (movies and TV included)."

Phew. And there I was thinking I was rotting my brain with such things. :)

Edit: Yes, HackerNews^H^H^Hitpick, undoubtedly I was truly thinking that because something applies to a renowned and skilled programmer, it also applies to me.

> Phew. And there I was thinking I was rotting my brain with such things. :)

I would like to point out that because one person has managed to be productive with that kind of habit doesn't mean it isn't harmful.

Harmful to productivity maybe...and only in the absolute sense... because humans aren't machines and balance must be pursued.

Which startup did he apply to YC with?

JumpChat – A platform bridging mobile text messages, email, and IM communication without needing to download anything. Users can send mass messages on any of the platforms and JumpChat will send it to the platform the receiver activates. They are currently focusing on mass mobile messaging, where users can shoot off mass messages to the groups they define.

http://techcrunch.com/tag/jumpchat/

Like the new Facebook messages. 5 years too early.

JumpChat.

I think he's a bit too bullish on Closure Compiler's advanced compilation mode. It's nice, but if you don't have an extern file for each additional third party library you use, or forget to use dictionary syntax to access properties that CC doesn't know about, your code will fail cryptically and almost silently.

> or forget to use dictionary syntax to access properties that CC doesn't know about

That sounds like a reason to be bullish about it to me. The more popular it is, the more people have to worry about making their code analyzable, the better it works.

you might be interested in his work on mining IM networks for terrorist cells:

"A Framework for Mining Instant Messaging Services" http://faculty.washington.edu/ankurt/Publications_files/SIAM...

I would love to see him do Khan Programming Screencasts. Seriously, the world needs more of this.

Sal Khan also did Computer Science. Programming fans are already in capable hands.

Computer Science != Programming

I know more than a few Computer Science majors who are much smarter than me (I didn't do CS) and know their stuff down cold but couldn't program their way out of a paper bag.

Maybe Sal can - dude can do pretty much everything else - so he almost certainly can do those videos, but there's still a distinction there, between the two.

Link? I also would like to see Resig do JS targeted screencasts covering concepts like closures and prototyping.

Oh, sorry, I was ambiguous: I mean he has a BS in engineering and computer science. He's currently doing some casts on number theory, so he might very well already be on his way to touch on general computer science.

I think your suggestions are only going to be a part of the Academy far away in the future when all the basics are in order. When you watch a video, you usually have the necessary prerequisite knowledge for the material available as other Khan Academy videos. I think Khan approaches computer science the same way.

Thank you for clarifying. I agree that having supporting material is important.

...on the other hand, screencasts on JavaScript by Khan / Resig would be exceptionally good for the JS community.

Neat. I learned he was also a member of CSH. I never knew that.

i alway wonder how a guy so gifted like john yet so humble where does it come from

It's just not worth taking this out of my /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

ww.reddit.com

l6.reddit.com

...its in mine too

It's funny, you didn't get voted down but the two other comments about this did.

EDIT: And this did. Funny stuff.

I was contemplating that myself. Reddit is too much of a timesink - even for this!

Also worth mentioning (not free, but great programming screencasts)

http://peepcode.com/

It takes time for these sort of things to fill up. Looking now, 51 minutes after your comment shows that he has replied to just about every main question, with a lot of interesting (and technical) details.

Potential anonymous gift senders? I think we have to appreciate the level of gratitude that people feel to this guy for creating jQuery.

You seem to forget this is the ingratitude generation, where no matter how good 99.9% of your free product is, you will get publicly flamed and belittled for the 0.1% that isn't quite what people expected.