Six months ago I wrote a post called “I’m Quitting the University” (I’m Quitting the University) and promised to explain why I left.

Students would often come up to me and ask: “Vladimir Igorevich, why are you still working here instead of going to the U.S.”? Blushing …

In 1999 I met a girl at the seaside. We struck up a friendship, but it didn’t last long, literally a couple of days: her family was leaving the resort much earlier than mine. She lived in another city, and since neither the internet nor texting had been invented …

An interesting podcast with Andrey Yasinetsky — a programmer from Uber (in Russian). Very interesting stuff about the present and future of the service.

In San Francisco, Uber is optimized so that a car arrives on average 2.5 minutes after you order it. In our 16-story building, you have to …

Students are curious:

I want to get serious about programming. Which language should I choose?

If you’re going to get serious, then any of them.

A common mistake among students is to sit around and do nothing. We won’t discuss laziness here; instead, let’s look at the …

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 …

We recently already wrote about how the local Rohan drunks are being screwed over on a high intellectual level. To recap, back then a social-beer pack of Lvivske, consisting of six bottles, cost 17.95. Under the slogan “convenient and economical,” the item is being sold for one kopeck more …

Today was the last lecture in “Multicore Programming,” a course I teach for the students in our club. I’d like to thank the guys who, despite the fact that the course isn’t meant for first-year students, and despite the late hour of the classes, still kept coming right …