Jon Gjengset here implements TCP in rust. It's long, but it is very good https://youtu.be/bzja9fQWzdA

Both 5th and 6th editions of OpenGL Superbible use only Core Profile functionality. It's the best way to start OpenGL nowadays

The decision was already made, unless they can approve _and_ win a GR for overriding it (and I don't think they would win).

The decision to make systemd the default in jessie has been made. The TC is still debating whether or not packages will be able to declare systemd as a dependency.

trying to make your non tech friends and family use diaspora is quite problematic. Its a chicken egg problem: social networks need people. people wont join if peoole is not already there

But , even the standard lua interpreter is faster then python

I dare to say that Lua is everything that javascript is trying to be.

IntelliJ is one of the only exceptions that come to mind. But, I would _LOVE_ if intelliJ used Qt instead of Java/Swing ...

There is a Scheme option for Racket/Chicken

I guess that liking or not, depends on how much you like the features, to forget/forgive/disregard it's drawbacks. For example, Python has drawbacks ... but, I do LOVE the language, is just such I joy to code in Python, that I just dont care that much about its problems. For me, is the same for C and Lua But, for C++, is the oposite. I do like some of its features, but, overall, I really hate the language. Too much headaches and pitfalls. And it's the same for javascript. But, hey, it's a personal opinion. I do really respect brendan eich as a developer, even lot liking javascript.

It seems that amazon is shipping chromecasts to UK . Give it a try