The other day I read Ichak Adizes’s book “How to Overcome the Crises of Management” (420 UAH at the business literature store). As a result of reading it, I clarified for myself what kinds of managers and executives there are.
The author identifies four components:
P — performance qualities, the …
The other day I was talking with schoolkids at a college, so today in the “Students Are Curious” column, a question from them:
Tell us about the influence of fiction on a specialist. Should one read fiction?
Fiction should be read while you’re still in school. There’s a …
On October 31, the second meeting of the “Python at APVT” club took place. The meeting was held in room 318 of the APVT department from 11:15 to 12:50.
We discussed how the first week of the Coursera course had gone. It turned out that some of the …
While Amazon is making $500 million in net profit a quarter from the cloud, Hewlett-Packard is shutting down its public cloud. The other day I got this email:
In short, on January 31, 2016, Hewlett-Packard will stop providing public cloud services — basically, shut down your servers and download your data …
When I was young and didn’t have any profession yet, I was interested in various project-management methodologies and methods. I wanted to be a great project manager! I still remember those thick, bright-red Microsoft Solutions Framework books. Or the gigantic IBM Rational Unified Process website with a hundred different …
On October 24, 2015, the first meeting of the “Python at APVT” club took place. The meeting was held in room 318 of the APVT department from 11:15 to 12:50.
At the beginning, everyone introduced themselves and talked about their relationship with Python. I was pleasantly surprised to …
Zombifying schoolkids (applicants) is university slang for the process of persuading schoolkids to apply to one faculty or another at a university. The process is called zombification because, as a result, the schoolkid is supposed to really, really want to apply, without any rational argumentation whatsoever.
— Son, why do you …
Amazon has posted its third-quarter 2015 income and expense report.
Revenue from sales of Amazon Web Services came to $2 billion. For the same period last year, it was $1 billion. Net income for Q3 2015 was $521 million; for the same period in 2014, $98 million. That is, turnover …
In December 2014 I was traveling from Kharkiv to Grenoble to visit a close friend. Warsaw was one of the intermediate stops where I needed to stop and spend the night. That was because I’d decided to save a hundred bucks and fly on a low-cost airline, which happened …
— Shhh, kid... Want a little self-education?
On October 27, another Python course starts on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/python In 2015, Python made it into the top five most popular programming languages (see TIOBE Index for October 2015), and interest in it continues to grow:
This time we …