Articles in category 16

Read 54 Books. One Year Later

On October 12, 2015, I decided to read 54 books in a year (more details: Reading 54 Books in a Year). One year later, I’m sharing my impressions. The main takeaways are these.

Over the past year, from 10/12/2015 to 10/15/2016, I started reading 34 …

Students Ask™ 8: What Year Should You Start Working?

Students ask:

Volodymyr Ihorovych, I got into KhNURE, specifically KIU. How do I get into some company as quickly as possible? What year should I start working?

As quickly as possible means, from day one, make a list of companies, write a résumé, and start sending it down the list …

Went to See Jobs

Went to see the film “Steve Jobs: Divorcee Strikes Back” (2015).

When I was walking into the theater, I got wary: it was 3/4 women. For the first fifteen minutes I couldn’t understand why Jim Carrey was on the screen, and when they were finally going to show …

Python at APVT

— Shhh, kid... Want a little self-education?

On October 27, another Python course starts on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/python In 2015, Python made it into the top five most popular programming languages (see TIOBE Index for October 2015), and interest in it continues to grow:

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This time we …

What Will the VIP Terminal in Kharkiv Look Like?

Renderings of the interior of the Kharkiv airport’s VIP terminal have become available online. For example, here’s the waiting lounge:

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And here’s the check-in desk:

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Compared with how it used to be, it’s night and day.

Kharkiv is getting better and better, and that can’t …

Free essayz downlod site

Yesterday Wikipedia—the No. 1 site with free term papers on all knowledge—turned 10. It was decided to mark the date with the whole Kharkiv community of Wikipedia contributors.

The meetup began with a visit to the Kharkiv Art Museum. The exhibition of photographs by Alexey Ivanitsky (1854–1920 …

The Morning Ritual of Checking the Stats

So I’m checking the blg’s visitor stats in the morning and I see:

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Who would have thought people read from iPads more often than from Windows NT. By the way, Other Unix is probably Ubuntu. I knew it: they don’t count that distro as Linux.

Doxygen for SystemC 2.2.0

Often, when studying a new library, you need to look at the class hierarchy or the list of methods of a particular class. Jumping from file to file via “Show Declaration” links in Visual Studio is not always convenient. There is a utility called Doxygen that parses projects written in …