Although it's pretty cool by itself, they modify and distribute copyrighted IPSWs (iOS firmware), which is basically illegal.

This is reckless.

It's reckless to base a business around it or depend on it for production use, yes. For fun, it's just hacking.

Which is a federal offence where even just issuing a bunch of GETs can get you sentenced to years in jail.

Not that definition of hacking! I mean seriously given the title of this website I didn't expect that.

Is there any way to delete an account? I can't find any link / setting to do that.

Send an email to info at mightyspring dot com and we'll take care of it for you. Right now there's no button, but we should probably put one in!

I came across http://uptodate.frontendrescue.org/ few weeks ago, they give valuable advices and many resources to keep getting up to date.

About web standards, frameworks and related tools, I recommend you to cast a glance on http://webplatformdaily.org/

Contrary to what is said, Javascript IS an object-oriented language and prototype-based inheritance IS a language feature.

I still can't believe how many people don't understand this fact. Javascript is incredibly flexible - if you can think of a programming paradigm - Javascript already supports it.

Once an iPhone is jailbreaked, most of these features are available...

I'm French and I never heard someone pronouncing it "JIF".

Well then I guess even us do have different pronunciations. I'm from Lyon and everyone I know, be it friends, family or colleagues, say "jee-f".