Citizens often ask how I personally organize my work. I use a lot of tools for personal efficiency. Today we’ll talk about the calendar.
Last time we talked about the task list: Personal Effectiveness: a Task List Most often, tasks in a task list are not tied to a …
Students are curious:
Volodymyr Ihorovych, why do we need to write these hateful term papers?
A bit of background. A commission at KhNURE found plagiarism in the reports for term projects by a number of students. The meaning of the word “plagiarism” is the deliberate appropriation of authorship of someone …
What do students chant in unison after their fourth year?
— BA-CHE-LORS! BA-CHE-LORS!
What do students chant in unison after getting their diploma?
— UN-EM-PLOYED! UN-EM-PLOYED!
What do students chant in unison a year after getting their diploma?
— FREE-CASH-IER! FREE-CASH-IER!
Oschadbank has installed self-service terminals. And I love automation: it lets you save money, make services cheaper, because an hour of a person’s work costs much more than an hour of a machine’s work. Well, more precisely, in Ukraine that’s still not the case, but throughout the …
Here’s the very first program I ever wrote in my life:
10 PRINT "Vova"
The second program already asked what my name was, then asked for my year of birth, and then printed on the screen:
Privet, Vova! Tebe 8 let.
I retyped both of these programs from a …
There’s this genre of cartoons that makes fun of office slavery. For example, here’s a woman who keeps running and running, out of breath, and realizes there will never be a finish line:
And here’s a manager saying: “Run faster!”, as in, you’re not working hard …
I’m resigning from KhNURE of my own accord. This is where there should have been a long post about why I made this decision and what events led up to it. Or maybe some lyrical post with a bunch of historical photographs, ending with the words, "I would have …
On April 5, 6, and 7 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), I will give three lectures on modern disruptive cloud technologies for master’s students of the APVT department.
The lectures will take place on …
The first time it happened was in seventh grade, in shop class. What I liked most was working on the engine lathe (Isaak Naumovich, hi!). I remember it like it was yesterday: I clamped the workpiece in the spindle, secured the tool holder, adjusted the tailstock coupling, tightened the screw …
Speaker:
— Honorable people’s deputies! The question being put to a vote is to give each deputy a salary of one million dollars, present them with a big house on the ocean shore, and give them a personal motor pool of ten cars. Please vote. Voting! 450 in favor, 0 against …