Recognize the bunny?

In the Kharkiv Metro, at Universytet station, a five-meter bunny of ill fate has been installed. If you walk up to it and pet it, it will do you-know-what.

— Where are you headed? — To the metro. — Not meant to be!

And here it is Saturday again, and once again someone on the internet is wrong.

Browsing Habr in my spare time, I stumbled on a note about the case of some Zhukov. The story is murky; as I understood from the discussions, the dude wrote a little accounting app, took …

In the modern world, not everything is so simple*.

Source: Sergeev Pavel*

The scenario is this: when you start entering the CVV2, a virtual PIN-code keyboard pops up, while the window size doesn’t change, and 2/3 of the keyboard isn’t visible. I wonder how many users won’t figure out that they need to scroll the window? Or is …

Last month I started thinking that I’ve been reading way too little. I wanted something for the soul, and something I could reread more than once. The choice fell on a book by Edward Tufte (Edward Tufte), “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. I love all sorts of things …

Last time, the editorial staff of our blg wrote about the design of the map for the Kholodnohirsko-Zavodska metro line. Today, a photograph of the Oleksiivska line map has been obtained from reliable sources.

Of the pictograms, I liked “Ice-cream Cone,” “Trash Can,” “Moon Path,” and “Some Damn Thing.”

Why doesn’t Lingvo have a “Tweet” button? I’d use it.

I can’t understand how people even live in this world when they’re hot in the summer, cold in the winter, damp in the fall, and in spring it’s who the hell knows what. My favorite time of year is the one that’s here and now. In …

Many of us write various kinds of documentation in English. That includes presentations, user guides, help files, and just plain blog posts. I’m the same way. We teach people with screencasts, where you have to explain what’s happening on the screen. The scripts contain a lot of descriptions …

“If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants” Isaac Newton

After the research topic for an article (see “On Choosing a Topic for a Research Paper”) or for a term paper, thesis, or dissertation has been defined, you need to work …