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Guix, the GNU system, uses dmd.

The perfect Show HN title.

You inaccurately equate the "blogger law" requirements (i.e. having to "register, disclose [blogger's] personal information and submit to the same regulations as mass media") with mass surveillance.

At least wrt searches you can easily send info to, say, AOL, every browser, Y.B included, allows that. (It is interesting for the Russian-speaking auditory to note that Y.Browser doesn't include search engines of other Yandex's competitors on the Russian market - Mail.ru and Rambler, while it has Ask, Bing and whatnot).

Some useful extensions like LastPass, Adguard, Pocket and Evernote are packaged (but not enabled) by default. Functionally it's Yandexified Chromium (vs Googlized Chromium aka Chrome—and modulo UI chrome of course).

Download page is in Russian, but the interface is in English when installed. International site (http://browser.yandex.com) still has "We're working on it".

Russian Oberon community continues BlackBox development: http://oberoncore.org/blackbox/environment Basic Linux support was added.

Exactly. Only a few regional ISPs have been blocking GitHub for a short amount of time.

It's no longer compatible with jessie/sid either. precise and saucy versions depend on libprotobuf7 (wheezy has it too), trusty - on libprotobuf8 and jessie has libprotobuf9.

Well, than I would like to extend my apologies to Ludovic Courtès.

Aforementioned discorteous post from reddit user would really be understandable coming from a GNU enthusiast if caustic in form.

I concur. Besides NixOS is certainly more polished right now, at least for my definition of "polish" (I think, the right word for Scheme based Guix is "cohesive", maybe even "elegant"). It should be, being several years old, compared to Guix, which has been running on real hardware for mere weeks.

Yes, that's one of the reasons Guix attracts me as well. By the way, it's interesting to note here that when it comes to directory structure POSIX is much less strict than FHS [0], which NixOS and Guix largely abandon.

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

Talk about technological merits, huh? The onus is on him to prove that dmd is a viable alternative.

systemd works exclusively with the Linux kernel, and thus it's infeasible for the GNU system to settle on it. Here's current dmd maintainer's (Courtès) take on the matter: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/25abkh/what_is_wrong_...

Videos from the GHM 2014 aren't online yet. They will probably be posted at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/previous.html eventually. You can find video and slides of Ludovic Courtès' talk on Guix from the GHM 2013 at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/paris/.

Do you intend to make use of new 4.2 goodness or simply make the tutorial 4.2-compatible? Granted, some of the improvements in 4.2 are out of scope for the book (like ActiveJob), some are performance related, but there is also web console. It fits the philosophy of the new edition perfectly and would be a useful addition to the book.

Only two weeks? Splendid, I start reading through the draft right now.

Michael, let me ask two predictable questions.

1. When do you expect to complete the 3rd edition? Seeing as the book is being heavily reworked and knowing your attention to detail, I guess the answer is "when it's ready".

2. Will the Rails version be fixed at 4.1?

That's what studying compiler construction does for your brain!

Kudos to PHP for apparently being ahead of the curve among dynamic languages with regard to statistics. Another interesting, yet unmentioned option is Clojure/Incanter.

Correct. Many Thinkpads had 1050 and 1200 until 2007 or so. It went downhill from there.