About all that’s changed is the name and borough!
I highly recommend this program.
(Dan and I were at RC concurrently for the second half of his batch.)
I’ll echo the sentiment: RC is a really cool and unique place. I was somewhat atypical, I think, in that I came in with a very defined and niche project that I wanted to work on (hacking on gccgo), but the RC format is flexible enough to be amenable to that. It’s nice to be surrounded by a community of folks united by a love (or at least appreciation?) of programming, even if you’re not actively working on a project together.
I’m a bit sad that I missed out on some of the more social/collaborative side of RC by focusing so heavily on one project, but I’m told this is a common sentiment: it’s hard to strike a balance between being people-driven and being project-driven.
RC is definitely a cool and unique place! One thing people might not recognize if they're not keeping track is that there's usually about one item by a Recurser on the front page of HN.