On 01/25/2017, a conference of the labor collective of the CEU faculty was held, at which they voted to give Dean Khakhanov’s work an unsatisfactory evaluation.

Large organizations are hard to manage. Not everyone can manage themselves. Let alone manage another person, a dozen people, a hundred …

Our university is currently discussing dual education. In dual education, a student gets part of their knowledge at the university and part at a company. For example, Germany has had a system for 40 years where the student gets 50% of their knowledge at a company and 50% at uni …

Students are curious:

Volodymyr Ihorovych, why do we need to write these hateful term papers?

A bit of background. A commission at KhNURE found plagiarism in the reports for term projects by a number of students. The meaning of the word “plagiarism” is the deliberate appropriation of authorship of someone …

There is a small community of Python programmers in Kharkiv — Kharkiv.py. The community meets rarely, once every six months. The next meeting will be on February 13 (Saturday), where I’ll talk about using Docker in automated tests in Python.

Besides me, the speakers will be:

— Roman Podoliaka – on …

When I was young and didn’t have any profession yet, I was interested in various project-management methodologies and methods. I wanted to be a great project manager! I still remember those thick, bright-red Microsoft Solutions Framework books. Or the gigantic IBM Rational Unified Process website with a hundred different …

Yesterday I posted a riddle about three black things:

These were the guesses:

— “The Steam launch button” (apparently because of the similar logo)
— “Keyboard keys”
— “Magnets!!! For sticking photos on the fridge!!! )))))”
— “Share buttons”
— “Disassembled headphones)”
— “3 x BlackBox”

Thanks to everyone who took part for the guesses. Special thanks …

The day after the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, public-service ads appeared in the Kharkiv metro in the format “A chance came up to do something. Ukraine, we’ll make it.” For example, a young man announces: “A chance came up to build an international career in Ukraine.”

And here a …

In my view, the Russian-language Wikipedia suffers from a shortage of articles in the field of microelectronics CAD. For example, there are no articles about giants such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics. I’ve just made a small translation of the article from the English-language Wikipedia about Aldec. Have …