Articles in category 30

On Levels of Stupidity

Sorry for such a deeply philosophical post this late at night, but I was promised lunch for it.

The beginner level of stupidity is when you, like, know everything. Well, that is, in reality you know absolutely nothing, but for some reason you think you know everything. For any question …

The Poverty of Domestic Design

Oschadbank has installed self-service terminals. And I love automation: it lets you save money, make services cheaper, because an hour of a person’s work costs much more than an hour of a machine’s work. Well, more precisely, in Ukraine that’s still not the case, but throughout the …

Students Are Curious 6: Will They Really Expel Me?

Oh yes, I know: you’ve missed the “Students Are Curious” feature.

So, the students are curious:

Volodymyr Ihorovych, how can this be, will I really be expelled just because of one exam of yours that I didn’t pass?

Yes, you will be expelled. It’s important to understand …

Retraining into IT from Scratch

I’ve been running into this question more often: “What courses should I take if I’m learning IT from scratch?” Well, for example, if your first profession is teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, but you want to get a job as a Haskell programmer.

For me this is …

Students Are Curious 3

Students are curious:

I missed all your lectures and lab sessions; how do I get credit if the semester and exam period ended ages ago?

Take the lab manuals, do the labs, prepare answers to the control questions, and then come in, prove that the lab work was done independently …

Review of Jiří Toman’s Book “How to Improve Yourself”

I finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “How to Improve Yourself.” The book was published in 1980 in Prague, and in 1988 it was translated into Ukrainian and published in Kyiv by the publishing house for political literature.

face

The book covers questions such as:

  1. What would you like to achieve …

Fall

Good thing I live in the woods.

trees

I looked out the window and realized it was already fall.