Author: ProHoster

The story of how the girl gathered in IT

“You’re a girl, what kind of programming do you like?” — it was this phrase that became my parting word into the world of information technology. A phrase from a loved one in response to a careless manifestation of the feelings that burst within me. But if only I had listened to him, there would have been neither the story nor this progress. Activity indicator on the educational platform My story: the meaninglessness of old knowledge and the desire […]

From students to incidents or how to get a job in an IT company without knowledge and experience

Over the course of a year and a half in DIRECTUM support, I resolved more than a thousand requests, including those related to setting up the system and working with application code. "So what?" - a logical question arises. And the fact that I am a student from the economics department, who two years ago did not understand why the server part was needed in the architecture of mobile applications, and […]

Application of RPA in scientific and engineering calculations

Introduction At school, to consolidate our knowledge, we were asked to solve many similar examples. We were annoyed all the time: what is valuable here? Substitute two or three values ​​into the formula and get the answer. Where is the flight of thought here? Reality turned out to be harsher than school. Now I work as an IT analyst. Before joining the IT field, I worked as a heating engineer, a CNC programmer, and took part in research projects. […]

F-Stack 1.13 released

Tencent has released a new version of F-Stack 1.13, a framework based on the DPDK and TCP/IP stack of FreeBSD. The main platform for the framework is Linux. The code is distributed under the BSD license. The framework allows applications to bypass the operating system stack and instead use a stack implemented in user space that works directly with network hardware. Among the stated features of the framework: Full loading […]

Experience in finding a PhD student position in Germany

Good afternoon. I would like to share my experience of working as a PhD student in Germany, and also talk about the main criteria that are needed in a CV to successfully pass an interview with a professor. In addition, I’ll tell you about my salary and what was the main reason for my move. Work experience gained in Russia First, I’ll tell you what kind of work experience I had before moving, […]

Debian 10.2 released

The Debian project announces the release of the second update to the stable release of Debian 10 (codename buster). This release mostly contains fixes related to security and a number of other serious problems. Source: linux.org.ru

The developers of Age of Empires IV abandoned microtransactions

Age of Empires IV creative director Adam Isgreen spoke about the studio's plans for the game's financial model. According to him, the company will not add microtransactions, but will instead focus on releasing add-ons. “Microtransactions in RTS are not what you need. All we are going to do is release new DLC,” Isgreen said. Isgreen […]

Added utility to sysvinit to convert systemd unit files

The sysvinit initialization system includes an auxiliary utility sysd2v, which allows you to convert systemd service unit files into the format of classic SysV initialization scripts with LSB headers. The utility will be shipped starting with the release of sysvinit 2.97 in the “contrib” directory. Source: opennet.ru

Google Stadia launch lineup expanded to 22 games

The head of Stadia, Phil Harrison, announced in his microblog that the starting set of the Google cloud service has almost doubled - now 22 games are expected at launch. The projects announced last week included: Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle Farming Simulator 19 Final Fantasy XV Football Manager 2020 GRID (2019) Metro Exodus NBA 2K20 RAGE […]

F-Stack 1.13 Networking Stack Released in User Space

After a year and a half of development, the F-Stack 1.13 project was released, developing a high-performance network stack running in user space, based on the DPDK framework and the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack (F-Stack is not tied to FreeBSD and considers Linux as the primary platform for use). The project is used in various products and services of Tencent, China's largest telecommunications company. The code is distributed under [...]

Assassin's Creed II Composer Releases 17 Unreleased Tracks to Celebrate Game Anniversary

Assassin's Creed II composer Jesper Kyd has released 17 unreleased tracks in honor of the game's anniversary. All recordings are available on Soundcloud. “Today is the 10th anniversary of Assassin's Creed II. To celebrate this milestone, I've put together 17 previously unreleased audios and demos. Thank you so much to all the fans for the amazing support for this soundtrack," Kyud wrote. Assassin's Creed […]

Valve may have canceled the next game from the creators of Firewatch

It looks like Campo Santo is having trouble with In the Valley of Gods, which was announced in December 2017. Several signs indicate this. The creators of the acclaimed forest adventure Firewatch announced their next game at The Game Awards 2017. The project will take place in the twenties of the last century. A former traveler and her partner went in search of treasure in the Egyptian desert, […]