Articles in category 24

Professional user

There’s a familiar role on a team: tester, test engineer, software quality assurance — someone who tests an application professionally.

But it would be cool to have a professional user: not a professional tester, but someone who uses the product professionally. For example, if a company is building an ecommerce …

Rubin Won

Previously on: on December 15, in the election for rector of KhNURE, 499 voters (50.2%) voted for Semenets, and 354 (35.6%) for Rubin. On December 19, the Ministry of Education and Science dismisses Rubin from the post of rector of KhNURE. On December 20, the Ministry of Education …

Programmer ≠ Businessman

Here’s the very first program I ever wrote in my life:

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The second program already asked what my name was, then asked for my year of birth, and then printed on the screen:

Privet, Vova! Tebe 8 let.

I retyped both of these programs from a …

Phone Scammers

This morning a young man called me from +380 95 746-21-82. The young man introduced himself as an employee of the National Bank of Ukraine. He even gave me his first and last name, his position, and some reference number. Then he said:

— For your identification, we need to know …

Sam Newman’s Book “Building Microservices”

I recently read Sam Newman’s book “Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems.”

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After reading this book, phrases kept spinning in my head: “paradigm shift,” “disrupt,” “the next big thing.” Most of you are on the other side of the browser and have little interest in the development of internet technologies …

Pic Related

Pic related (from “pic related,” “picture related”) is an image inserted into a text that has an indirect relation to the meaning.

Pic-related images are the cancerous tumor of the internet and a sign of the text author’s lack of professionalism.

Pic-related images appeared when the internet got shitted …

Meet the Computer!

And yet, sometimes you really can find a diamond in the mud!

Usually there’s no reason to linger in the long tunnel at Proletarska metro station. This time, as I was walking past a book stall spread out on the dirty floor, among a multitude of colorful covers my …

On the Design of Charts

I recently noticed a chart in the Google Analytics software.

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Here we see a comparison of two metrics: the blue line shows the number of visits (Visits), and the light-blue one shows the number of unique visitors (Unique Visitors). Take another look at the chart and answer the question: which …

Act like a loser

I checked into a holiday resort. A nice holiday resort — bathroom in the room, no need to go to another floor or stand in line for the bathhouse. I went to take a shower. Turned the tap toward the red mark. Barely warm water came out. Well, I thought — it …

Reading Kharkiv News

Let’s talk about Kharkiv news. But not about events in our glorious city—about Internet news services. Since I rarely get to watch TV the window into Hell, I subscribed to several online news feeds. Let’s go through each of them.