I gave High Bar Journal my comments on “IT now vs. 20 years ago: how requirements for professionals have changed”

https://highbarjournal.media/post/cyfrova-transformaciya-vymogy-do-it-fahivciv

If you’re the CTO and you haven’t programmed in a long time, I recommend taking some current project and implementing a new feature or fixing a couple of bugs.

It’s like being a “secret shopper” in a supermarket. It may turn out that the goods are expired …

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 …

It grates on the ear when people say, “I don’t have time.”

Remember this once and for all: saying “I don’t have time” is very embarrassing. It’s just as embarrassing as replying to a girl, “I don’t have money,” when she suggests going to the movies …

There’s a lot a university doesn’t teach. For example, it doesn’t teach your native Russian. Over the years I worked as an instructor, hundreds of student papers passed before my eyes: reports, abstracts, term papers, theses. Usually I start scribbling comments in the very first paragraph and …

Let’s take a look at McDonald’s advertising campaign for zombifying employable teenagers.

McDonald’s copywriters have gotten so fucking brazen that they dared to declare, on big posters all over Ukraine, that in one workday in fast food you can learn “much more than in several years at …

09/25/2010—09/26/2010

Yevpatoria is a resort town. You’re supposed to go there to relax by the sea. You can go for a long time, or you can go for a weekend. So this time the group suggested going for the weekend. As always, someone turned …

In the modern world, not everything is so simple*.

Source: Sergeev Pavel*

In the introductory classes for the optimization course, the students and I discuss a question like “When should you start optimizing?” You can often hear the answer attributed to Donald Knuth: “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Usually, this phrase (actually taken out of context) is interpreted this …