— Yesterday I needed to prepare a contract, so I installed Microsoft Office.
— Microsoft sucks! Install OpenOffice!

I don’t understand how people can seriously recommend OpenOffice as a program for editing office files. OpenOffice is useful only as an argument that “there is an alternative to Microsoft Office,” and nothing …

Oleh Tyahnybok on the line:

"Society, this is already just ridiculous. I am the chairman of a political force, a major political force, a political force that has 37 deputies in the Ukrainian parliament, a political force that made the decision that the head of the party should ride in …

Sometimes I talk with students about the thesis process and its results. I’m surprised by the arguments in favor of letting the whole process slide. For example, you can hear things like: “Why bother, if other people copy-paste and get good grades?” or “Whatever, no one’s going to …

I’ve been studying English for a very long time, but I keep running into more and more new unfamiliar words. When I used an IBM PC-compatible computer running Windows 7, I used ABBYY Lingvo X3 to peek at translations of unfamiliar words (three languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English). An excellent …

The screen area of any smartphone is significantly smaller than that of a laptop or desktop computer. Which means much less information fits on it. Let’s look at an example of a “news feed” type application below:

The standard Helvetica font is used here. You can see that only …

Stack Overflow is a site where people go out of their way to help other people find answers to programming questions. My colleagues won’t let me lie: more than half of all questions can be solved by searching this site. The idea of creating such a site turned out …

Every self-respecting PHP programmer should know at least two PHP frameworks. This is so that, when you come onto an existing project, you can criticize the current implementation and propose redoing everything on another framework. But it’s better to know three or even four frameworks, in case other PHP …

To designers who sign off on an interface like this, all non-English-speaking users are pygmies. They think they can shove a surrogate, a fake at us and we’ll be happy with it and settle for it.

That’s where the whole great meaning of “I took a photo” in …

I remember those days when a childhood friend and I, in the mid-nineties, were writing a computer adventure game for the ZX Spectrum.

The development environment was a notebook and a pen. We drew levels on paper, first drew sprites in a squared notebook, and then entered them into the …

I recently noticed a chart in the Google Analytics software.

Here we see a comparison of two metrics: the blue line shows the number of visits (Visits), and the light-blue one shows the number of unique visitors (Unique Visitors). Take another look at the chart and answer the question: which …