Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Nadav, Will it be video taped? Slides made available? Thanks, --Amos On 2 April 2015 at 05:53, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Back to the Future > with C++ and Seastar": > > "Nadav Har'El" writes: > > > Seastar is an open source (http://www.se

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar": > "Nadav Har'El" writes: > > Seastar is an open source (http://www.seastar-project.org/) library. > > It is based on the concept of "futures" (like in Node.js, just implemented > > in a much more effi

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" writes: > Seastar is an open source (http://www.seastar-project.org/) library. > It is based on the concept of "futures" (like in Node.js, just implemented > in a much more efficient way). Part of the talk will also introduce futures, > how Seastar implements them in C++, and how m

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:57:13 +0300 > From: Dov Grobgeld > Cc: Dotan Cohen , Linux-IL > > Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters LRI, > RLI, FSI, PDI? The development version in the Emacs Git repository does. But not the released versions, including the upc

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:49:34 +0300 > From: Nadav Har'El > > 15 years ago, I approached the same problem in pure-text documents > (such as emails) by inventing my own conventions (embodied in the "bidiv" > program) which automatically determines each paragraph's direction > in a "natural" (I t

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters LRI, RLI, FSI, PDI? These are perfect for separating markup text direction (which is typically L2R) from the flowing text. Dov On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Dotan Cohen wrote

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Hebrew in markup": > If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is ‎ > and you can guess what the RLM is. Even more useful is the > Right-To-Left Embedding character which is HTML entity ‫ Very nice! I tried this magic incantation

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html The LRM and RLM characters do not have to be invisible. I agree that when I'm editing markup I prefer to see all the control characters. If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is ‎ and you can guess what the RLM is. Even more

Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
(hmm, I see it's April 1st today, but this is not a joke, just a serious post...) In April 14th, in Tel Aviv (Google's building), Avi Kivity - of KVM and OSv fame - will present "Seastar", a new C++-based framework for writing super-efficient but highly complex and asynchronous server applications

Re: Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015, Steve Litt wrote about "Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?": > Hi all, > > I read the following article, which says that Beersheva might become a > high-tech powerhouse: When I was a kid, the popular belief was that *Haifa* will become the high-tech center

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Hebrew in markup": > But I could not figure a simple way with any of those to get decent > control of bidi. Or specifically: > > * Make the whole document RTL > * Make various paragraphs LTR > > I guess I need to override some styles. With asciidoc

Announcing “HTML 6”: the new version of the Web

2015-04-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the immediate availability of the new version of the web — HTML 6 — pronounced “HTML Sicks [sic]” with the motto “HTML 6 is sick!”. “We concluded that the previous version of the World Wide Web’s standards suite, HTML5, has exceeded its flexibili