What I like about tennis — you can’t play it on your phone over the internet, and you need at least one other person.

Think about it.

People are writing that, apparently, a new education reform has been passed. I have no idea what’s in it, but I’m obliged to have an opinion.

So. If it doesn’t specify a minimum take-home salary for a schoolteacher or university instructor of 10,000 (ten thousand) hryvnias …

The committee for organizing and holding the election of the rector of KhNURE stated that it was impossible to carry out the work of preparing and holding the election of the rector of KhNURE.

Source: Витяг-з-протоколу-11-від-13.10.16.pdf.

For the fourth time in a row, the university is unable …

Someone has probably told you some abstruse motivational quote, or you’ve come across them in public pages. For example:

or:

With a probability of 0.99976556% × 10², these quotes were from Jim Rohn’s book “Five Pieces to the Life Puzzle.” Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn) is one of …

Students are curious:

Hello. Could you give me some advice about defending a diploma. What do instructors pay the most attention to? When you’re showing the presentation.

You need to focus on the substance.

Most likely the instructors will be bored at the defense. Because they aren’t interested …

From the bell tower of ten years of teaching experience, as well as 7 years of experience organizing international conferences, I formulated this empirical law:

The amount of knowledge received is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source to the recipient.

Corollaries:

— at lectures, conferences, and …

There’s an old joke: what would happen if programmers became doctors?

“Doctor! My leg hurts!”
“Strange, I have the same kind of leg and mine doesn’t hurt.”

Few people know that this actually happened. An icy horror grips my heart when I reread the records of those tragic …

The other day, the Kharkiv office of EchoStar turned five. Back then, in 2007, the company’s team was formed mostly from students, graduate students, and staff of the Faculty of Computer Engineering and Control at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. We worked with some of them, studied with …

Two postcards arrived today, on the same day. One from Moscow, the other from Myrhorod. The one from Myrhorod set a record for delivery speed. Just on Saturday, November 13, I dropped it in the mail in Myrhorod, and today, on the evening of November 15, it was already lying …

I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.

One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …