Articles in category 20

The Meaning of the Film “Groundhog Day”

Today at business school we discussed the film “Groundhog Day.”

The plot of the film is that a journalist ends up in a prison of time and is forced to live the same day over and over again.

The film is very interesting. But what conclusion can we draw from …

Summary of the Eleventh Meeting of the “Python at APVT” Club

On January 9, 2016, the eleventh meeting of the “Python at APVT” club took place. The meeting was held in room 318 from 11:15 to 13:00.

1. Volodymyr Obrizan. Automated Testing of Programs in Python

A distinguishing trait of a professional programmer is having skills in automated code …

The Cycle of Kindness in Nature

In December 2014 I was traveling from Kharkiv to Grenoble to visit a close friend. Warsaw was one of the intermediate stops where I needed to stop and spend the night. That was because I’d decided to save a hundred bucks and fly on a low-cost airline, which happened …

Associative Memory

When I was a schoolboy, my father often took me with him to the radio market located at the Heroiv Pratsi metro station. While waiting for the train at the Istorychnyi Muzei metro station, Dad would point to the bas-relief and say: 

— Look, that’s a chopping block and an …

Is There Life After Defending Your Thesis?

Sometimes I talk with students about the thesis process and its results. I’m surprised by the arguments in favor of letting the whole process slide. For example, you can hear things like: “Why bother, if other people copy-paste and get good grades?” or “Whatever, no one’s going to …

Dates in Tables

A year ago we discussed the table design of the email client Microsoft Outlook. Today let’s talk about tables in Thunderbird.

When using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, I often run into this scenario. I open the Sent folder and visually scan the list of sent emails, starting with …

A Sample of Self-Promotion

The “Addthis” button is in a hurry to recommend itself to me.

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Amazing. I can’t imagine a person who would want to follow a button. Did the programmers really not think to show trending pages where this button gets clicked the most?

Omar Khayyam on laziness

To live life wisely, there is much one needs to know; For starters, remember two important rules: Better to go hungry than eat just anything, And better to be alone than together with just anyone.

(Translator: O. Rumer)