What new features does Dash offer? The only one OP mentions is viewing your code on a simulated mobile device. While that's useful, it's not particularly relevant to the target audience of beginning web developers.
Note: Learned the basics of web programming from Codecademy - extremely helpful service.
If the NSA didn't guard against him using accounts with more clearance to download documents he wasn't supposed to have access to, I don't think Snowden's intelligence is what we should be worried about.
No, because of the principle of eminent domain, meaning the government of California can forcefully purchase the land for public use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
Legally, whoever tried this would be forced to give over the land for "fair market value", and if they were difficult about it they'd probably receive much less.
This is a minor point, but I'm really glad the article title uses "allegedly". Even if it's quite probable Samsung is guilty here, I'm glad the article doesn't adjudicate the way so many news articles do.