Articles by Volodymyr Obrizan

Threw Out a Chunk of Code

Today I removed the old C++ parser from the project. Thanks to a fellow graduate (almost), who talked some sense into me about doing this. I decided to integrate clang — an open-source C++ compiler. It’s written in C++, compiles to the llvm intermediate representation, and is also supposedly faster …

Sports News

The Kharkiv Internet news service “Mediaport” is in a hurry to acquaint Kharkiv residents with the results of sporting competitions:

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In fact, Metalist played at home in Kharkiv, which means they were the home team. It was Vorskla that played away. Krasnopyorov did not score from a penalty. He scored …

On Design in Developer Documentation

For a long time I couldn’t figure out what the problem was, but I’ve just sorted it out and am hurrying to report back to you. I noticed that when I read documentation in MSDN, my soul somehow feels good and calm, and when I read it in …

Signed Up for Twitter

Signed up for Twitter this morning. Well, I figured, since everyone’s on Twitter already, it’s time for me too. Otherwise Kolyan was saying yesterday: “I read this joke on Twitter, everyone retweeted it, it even made it into top tweets!” Or my friend Dimon says: “I get all …

Everyone to the stadium!

Today at 9:00 PM there will be a Metalist — Dynamo match. It’s probably the most high-stakes match of the season. More than 38 thousand tickets have already been sold. A full stadium is just a little bit away. Five of us are going tonight — I’ll bring the …

On Choosing a Research Topic

Let’s continue our discussion, which we started back last year. As a reminder, the topic of the conversation is “How a young person can survive at a university.” Today we’ll talk about choosing a topic for research work.

Let’s make clear right away that we’ll be …

Oh-oh-oh, Now You’re in the Army

Recently I ran into a good acquaintance on public transit. He told me that five years of studying at our university seemed like not enough to him, and despite the exposé “Why Go to Graduate School?” by my friend Mikha, he decided anyway to enroll as a full-time postgraduate student …