Haha...I feel you man, I've been trying to complete this course on Coursera & only today did I actually complete a full week of it after seeing HN was down !!!
Overall, I didn't even get to pay much attention to the actual content, all I was focused on, after a while, were those animations & how to get them moving.
If the only aim of the designer was to display the power of parallax scrolling, Kudos.
+1 to say it out loud that "Programming is a hands-on activity". Imagine the inspiration she could be to countless people who, for various reasons, are afraid to even begin programming/continue after the initial(failed) efforts.
When I first saw the blog of this guy, just looking at the initial bug reports he mailed, I understood the nature of the bug this guy had discovered. It's strange that the people who are responsible for maintaining security at Facebook, failed to grasp that idea. It could be that they get so many bug reports a day, they have gotten in the habit of making fast initial judgments(which is natural). Maybe they made an initial judgement about this guy and then being biased, they failed at their job. If Facebook does not have a review of bug reports that they dismiss, and if this guy had not posted on MZ's profile, this bug would probably still exist.
I may have been more inclined to use this, if it did have the feature to read the comments!!
More often than not, I go through the comments first just to gauge the quality of the article and only if I am satisfied do I actually go read the article. That's why I don't like using desktop rss tickers for HN.
I HOPE there is a NSA / CIA / FBI spook going through this...because this man and his courage should shake the rust off of people, who are in a position to witness the tyranny of those in power(just like our whistle-blower) and take a stand and start caring more about what is the right thing to do and not what everyone around them seems to be doing.
Best of Luck.
With the Mobile part ofcourse, you'll do brilliant with rest, no wishes needed there :-)