Volodymyr Obrizan: personal website - Blog

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2018

The Biggest Stupidity in Domestic Retail and Service 26/7
If You’re the CTO 17/7
Practice Only, No Theory! 11/7
A Key Difference of a Professional 27/3
The Education Crisis 7/3

2017

A New Word: Softogenic 27/11
The Most Important Hire: Looking for a Personal Assistant 31/10
Education Reform 15/9
Looking for an Intern 3/5
Creative Plans 14/4
Revelations from God and Programmers 7/4
Abstract Thinking and Programmers 2/4
On Khakhanov’s Dismissal 28/1

2016

Rubin Won 24/12
School Starts December 2, 2016 26/11
A Reply to E. Ye. Rubin and V. I. Kauk 6/11
Why I Quit the University 5/11
Why Doesn’t the University Teach You to Be Successful? 2/11
Business School × 2 1/11
Dual Education 28/10
Read 54 Books. One Year Later 16/10
There Will Be No Elections at KhNURE in October 15/10
A Joke for Project Managers 7/10
On Levels of Stupidity 30/9
KhNURE’s Achievements on the Market 25/9
Shitty Kharkiv 23/9
Students Ask™ 8: What Year Should You Start Working? 16/9
Jim Rohn’s Book “Five Pieces to the Life Puzzle” 15/9
The Internet Makes Kids Dumber 14/9
Telephone Marketing 11/9
Personal Efficiency: Calendar 10/9
Students Are Curious™ 7: why write term papers? 28/8
A Fine Student Custom 18/8
The Poverty of Domestic Design 30/6
Programmer ≠ Businessman 24/6
There’s a Bit of Joke in Every Joke 17/6
I’m Quitting the University 11/6
Lecture Series on Modern Cloud Technologies 4/4
A Second Away From 19/3
An Incident in the Verkhovna Rada 27/2
Phone Scammers 24/2
Stay a dumb moron 23/2
KhNURE Photos 22/2
The Meaning of the Film “Groundhog Day” 20/2
Sounds to Remember 13/2
Two Eternal How-To Guides 11/2
George Orwell’s Book “1984” 10/2
Disrupt of the Week: Docker 9/2
The Cheapest Item 8/2
Personal Effectiveness: a Task List 7/2
Monitor Setup 6/2
A Reply 11 Years Later 5/2
Reading 54 Books in a Year 4/2
The Book “Economics: The User’s Guide” by Ha-Joon Chang 3/2
Disrupt of the Week: Swagger 2/2
Ukraine and 4G 1/2
Richard Branson’s Book “Screw It, Let’s Do It” 31/1
Students Are Curious 6: Will They Really Expel Me? 30/1
Retraining into IT from Scratch 30/1
Technical Blogs 29/1
Talk at Kharkiv.py 28/1
Richard John’s Book “The Big Eight” 27/1
Students Don’t Understand the Language 26/1
Richard Sheridan’s Book “Joy, Inc.” 25/1
Summary of the Twelfth Meeting of the “Python at APVT” Club 25/1
Sam Newman’s Book “Building Microservices” 24/1
LinkedIn 21/1
The Book “Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation” by Brian Tracy 20/1
Summary of the Eleventh Meeting of the “Python at APVT” Club 20/1
Exams 19/1
Unusual Marketing on the Streets of Kharkiv 19/1
Eric Larssen’s Book “No Mercy for Yourself” 9/1

2015

2014

Theft at the University 19/12
Couldn’t Make It Interesting 29/11
The Thesis Comes to a Student Twice 1/11
Students Are Curious 2 5/10
The Answer to the Three Black Things 28/9
Devalued Values 7/9
A Course on iPhones and Clouds 1/9
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge 1/9
A Chance Came Up to Take a Chance 28/8
Philosophical 2/7
The KhNURE Website Continues to Amaze 7/6
Students Are Curious 15/5
The Logic Game 2048 18/4
Facebook 18/4
He Said “Let’s Go!” and Waved His Hand 12/4
Where’s Obrizan? 12/4
Assessing the Work of Higher Education 29/3
On Having One’s Own Opinion 26/3
Pic Related 24/3
On Generating Ideas 18/3
Obrizan’s Law 15/3
Bring It Out into the Open 12/2
Live Not by Lies 8/2
Total Recall 7/2
Meet the Computer! 24/1
Juniority 22/1
Associative Memory 20/1
If Programmers Became Doctors 15/1
On Reading Books 11/1

2013

On Office Programs 2/11
Tyahnybok’s Car 27/8
Is There Life After Defending Your Thesis? 20/8
On Studying English 19/8
On Narrow Fonts in the Interface 4/5
On the Situation with the Russian-language Stack Overflow 4/5
On PHP Frameworks 2/4
I Took a Photo 8/1
I Remember Those Days 6/1

2012

2011

And the winner in the “Email of the Year” category is… 31/12
Calendar for December 2012 29/12
Electronic “Books” 22/11
The Road of Talent 12/11
By Reader Request 29/10
LSD Advertising in the Kharkiv Metro 23/10
Plagiarism at the University 23/10
Dates in Tables 20/10
Death — Symbolic 7/10
Daria Stepanenko Is Leaving the University 2/10
Act like a loser 24/9
Now reading: “Pedagogical Poem” 19/9
A Grade for the Domestic Higher School 17/9
Google’s Designers Are Losing Their Minds 13/9
A Sample of Self-Promotion 20/6
What Will the VIP Terminal in Kharkiv Look Like? 16/5
Skype Commit Size 6/5
Toy 3/5
Review of Jiří Toman’s Book “How to Improve Yourself” 30/4
Your IP address has been blocked 18/4
Life Is Like a Zebra: a White Stripe, Then a Black One 2/4
The Peculiarities of Construction in Ukraine 13/3
Service Pack for the Studio 12/3
How Do You Solve an Impossible Problem? 3/3
Postcard Collection 26/2
Ukrainian Patriots in Action 26/2
Innovations at KhNURE 25/2
Omar Khayyam on laziness 20/2
Sasha on the line 19/2
Yevpatoria 17/2
Because I Couldn’t Before 14/2
Review of Jiří Toman’s Book “The Art of Speaking” 27/1
Artificial Intelligence Reinvents the Wheel! 25/1
Free essayz downlod site 16/1
He Said “Let’s Go!” and Waved His Hand 1/1

2010

New Cat in Kharkiv 31/12
The Bunny in the Kharkiv Metro 25/12
Experts, my ass 25/12
Ded Moroz Is Bringing Presents to the Kiddies* 17/12
An error in the portmone.com.ua interface 14/12
The book arrived 13/12
Map of the Oleksiivska Metro Line 6/12
Lingvo + Twitter 6/12
And Now, the Weather 5/12
Recommendations for Technical Writers 3/12
★ Working with Sources 29/11
New Design for the Metro Line Map 27/11
Reading Kharkiv News 24/11
Computer Help for Women 23/11
Kharkiv Metro Questionnaire 23/11
A Little Tip for Jimmy Wales 20/11
Shocking Traffic Accident in Kharkiv 20/11
The Morning Ritual of Checking the Stats 16/11
Two Postcards 15/11
News from the Mental Hospital 15/11
News from Civilized Europe 7/11
Marketing Merchandising II 5/11
Do You Even Watch Where You’re Stepping? 1/11
Daylight Saving Time 27/10
Marketing Merchandising 24/10
Death Toll II 19/10
Death Toll 14/10
Aligning Numeric Data in Tables 14/10
Saint Petersburg 12/10
Tickets 6/10
The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes 2/10
News from Domestic Football 2/10
Hobbies 29/9
Arrival and Leaving Again 24/9
How Glad I Am 15/9
Help in Discovering an Exploit 15/9
Suddenly Roma Became a Teacher 13/9
On the Design of Online Magazines 12/9
Monument 9/9
Aviation Day 18/8
Error Messages in clang 14/8
Threw Out a Chunk of Code 13/8
Weather Forecast for August 10/8
Weather News 9/8
Sports News 9/8
On Design in Developer Documentation 7/8
Signed Up for Twitter 31/7
Everyone to the stadium! 23/7
On Choosing a Research Topic 23/7
Physicist, Mechanic, Astronomer, Philosopher, and Mathematician 18/7

2009

Oh-oh-oh, Now You’re in the Army 20/11
Vacation Out of the Blue 3/11
Doxygen for SystemC 2.2.0 16/10
KhNURE — 79 2/10
Fall 30/9
IBM Grants for PhD Students 29/9
Growth in the Use of C++ Synthesis 25/9
Grants from “Kaspersky Lab” 22/9
A New Useful Blog 18/9
Went to a Mentor Graphics webinar 15/9
A Patent on High-Level Synthesis 14/9
Looking for a student for a master’s and PhD program in South Korea 24/8
What Is Time Management Really About? 22/8
Intel’s “Explain It on Your Fingers 2.0” Contest 3/7
Started an article about Aldec on Wikipedia 28/6
Where Should You Go to Study? 26/6
Prototype of a Parallel Compiler 23/6
System-Level Design (Talk) 21/6
Lecture Notes on Optimization 20/6
An Example of the parallel_reduce Function 19/6
Let’s Go Back to the Original Sources 17/6
A Little About Suffixes 1/6
Cinder Blocks of Parallel Programming 29/5
News from Domestic Education 29/5
Sergey Mikhtonyuk’s Lecture on Computer Graphics 25/5
The Last UEFA Cup Will Stay in Ukraine! 21/5
C++ Was Invented in the USSR 14/5
Started an article on TBB on Wikipedia 8/5
Computing π — a contest by Intel’s Russian community 6/5
The “Multicore Programming” Course Has Ended 5/5
On Nine-Finger Touch Typing 4/5
Time Management Basics for a Freshman 2/5
Working Students 1/5
Intel’s Parallel Programming Contest 25/4
Simple Static Work Distribution in a Multithreaded Program 24/4
Funny Situations 12/4