One of the key differences between a professional and a nonprofessional is that a professional works just as well without internet access as with it. A professional doesn’t need Google, a tutorial, or a reference manual. The first sign of a nonprofessional is the phrase: “Everything is on the …

I’ve coined a new word:

softogenic (software + -genic) — being the consequence, the result of using some piece of software.

The word programogenic can also be used in this sense.

In English: softogenic (software + -genic).

For example: a softogenic disaster — a disaster caused by errors in software.

Write it down …

Speaker:

— Honorable people’s deputies! The question being put to a vote is to give each deputy a salary of one million dollars, present them with a big house on the ocean shore, and give them a personal motor pool of ten cars. Please vote. Voting! 450 in favor, 0 against …

I recently read Richard John’s book “The Big Eight” (112 UAH in electronic form).

I love books that lay out the formula for success without any beating around the bush. The author interviewed hundreds of successful people, like Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and others, and distilled their successful experience …

Oleh Tyahnybok on the line:

"Society, this is already just ridiculous. I am the chairman of a political force, a major political force, a political force that has 37 deputies in the Ukrainian parliament, a political force that made the decision that the head of the party should ride in …

I recently finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “The Art of Speaking.” As the title makes clear, this book is about how to speak beautifully and competently. Communication is a very important skill. You need to communicate a lot and often: with family, with friends, with colleagues at work; some …

The metro has a new design for the metro line map. Now every station has its own icon (a pictogram, that is). I dare say this is a kind of innovation. As far as I know, there’s nothing else like it anywhere in the world.

Proletarska — a hammer and …

The most important difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP is that the operating system’s user interface started turning its back to the forest and its front to the user. One interesting example is shown in the figure below. Windows, besides automatically changing the clocks, also uses the speech …