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I think the author completely misses the point here. Coding is learning how to write and read. It does not prevent one from learning other disciplines but rather helps make links between disciplines such as literature and mathematics. As for computer accessibility, with initiatives like the raspberry pi, decent computer power is more and more available.

Nope, from the video, it doesn't look like they are using Overtone at all. Overtone is a Clojure frontend/library to the Supercollider synth.

Here is a presentation of Overtone from Sam Aaron at the clojure conj 2011. http://youtu.be/imoWGsipe4k

> viking metal is stronger than sleep

Yes.

I was asking myself the same thing, anybody knows about obfuscated JavaScript contests?

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

alternate it is ;) The joke was on me.

Einstein has a wonderful accent.

Static types and unit tests don't solve or catch all problems. I'm thinking about event-driven messaging systems, which is pretty common in js; Static typing will not be of any help in that situation.

The approach is interesting but the syntax makes it hard to use. Why not make the first arguments the types like one would expect?

All this svg stuff is getting pretty interesting.

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/philbooth/check-types.js

Thanks for this, I forgot what the web once was.

I would not call this a framework but a jQuery plugin with a hip name

Seems really nice, but I would not call this a framework. Just like Backbone, it is more of a library than anything else.