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This is my first time hearing about this (honest to god), but I have to say I do like the homepage design. The combination of clean blue and white with tasteful screenshots do make me want to send this some designer friends and see if this can be helpful to them.

If the facts on the web site are correct, than this is really something that needs more attention. One hand you have people looking to hurt this country which must be stopped, but then on the other you have stories like this. It seems this would be a story that I think it would be good if it were picked up on by larger media to either help ley this boy go, or bring up the true facts of this case.

Although its kind of a silly video, it does raise an interesting question as to why cant developers/apple push updates automatically much like how it goes with web services like gmail. I know there's a lot of potential for abuse but I think that at the end of the day people want updates and for the most part (not all the time) take them as is, so I wander if there's something that can be about it that can improve this experience for both the developers and the users.

A lot of people can be opposed to this kind of teaching platform, and while I do agree that a traditional environment (hopefully in a good institution) is definitely preferable, I think that for a lot of people this is better than nothing. People who study there may not be competing for the same jobs with the people who went to Stanford or MIT but it might get them good jobs that they otherwise would not have been able to have and I think that's a good thing at the end of the day.

The language looks great. The challenge I think is always building enough of a community to create a rich enough stack that people can build real-world applications on. Scala did a fine job there, and a lot of that had to do with some companies taking some ownership of the platform (TypeSafe in that case), which may be good and/or bad. I wander what others think of this.