Author: ProHoster

Some characteristics of the second generation Lenovo Tab M10 tablet have been revealed

Messages have appeared on the Internet about Lenovo’s preparations for the release of the second generation Lenovo Tab M10 tablet. Thanks to sources on the Android Enterprise website, some basic characteristics of the new Lenovo device with model number TB-X606F have become known. The site also published an image of the new product. It is reported that the second generation Lenovo Tab M10 tablet will be equipped with a 10,3-inch screen. There is no word on display resolution, although […]

Qualcomm designs Snapdragon Wear 3300 chip for wearables

Qualcomm, according to online sources, may soon introduce a new energy-efficient processor designed for use in wearable devices. The current Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip contains four ARM Cortex-A7 cores, a digital signal processor and an ultra-low power coprocessor. The product is manufactured using 28-nanometer technology. The projected processor for wearable devices is expected to debut in the commercial market […]

MongoDB Basics Open Webinar

Friends, the next launch of the “Databases” course will take place tomorrow, so we held a traditional open lesson, the recording of which you can watch here. This time we talked about the popular MongoDB database: we studied some of the subtleties, looked at the basics of operation, capabilities and architecture. We also touched on some User Cases. The webinar was conducted by Ivan Remen, head of server development at Citymobil. Peculiarities […]

Developer salaries in Armenia

Salaries in the IT sector of Armenia do not lend themselves to the general salary conditions established in the country: the order of the numbers is significantly higher than the average salary, salaries are comparable, if not with Moscow, then regional in Russia, with salaries in the tech sector of Belarus. We calculated the average salaries of developers in Armenia, described the reasons behind these figures, and how they compare with salaries in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Germany. […]

Popular programming languages ​​2019 from hh.ru users

The title is in the style of the creeping New Year holidays, but we will only talk about September of this year in comparison with the same period in 2018. Below the cut is again a public report about the number of search sessions in programming languages, vacancies, resumes and a little about salaries. It worked out - what happened. Compared to the previous summary, TypeScript has been added, as well as JS frameworks - Vue, […]

How to get an internship at Google

A week ago we talked about our educational programs, where the comments pointed out to us the importance of internships and practical experience. It is impossible to disagree with this, since theoretical knowledge must be consolidated by practice. With this post we open a series of articles about summer internships for students: how guys get there, what they do there and why it’s good. In the first […]

€30 fine for illegal use of cookies

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) fined Vueling Airlines LS 30 thousand euros for illegal use of cookies. The company was accused of using optional cookies without the consent of users, and the cookie policy on the site does not provide an opportunity to refuse the use of such cookies. The airline stated that the user consents to the use of cookies by continuing […]

Overview of modern protocols in industrial automation systems

In the last publication we talked about how buses and protocols work in industrial automation. This time we will focus on modern working solutions: we will look at what protocols are used in systems around the world. Let's consider the technologies of the German companies Beckhoff and Siemens, the Austrian B&R, the American Rockwell Automation and the Russian Fastwel. We will also study universal solutions that are not tied […]

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs Part 1

This interview was included in the anthology The Playboy Interview: Moguls, which also includes conversations with Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, David Geffen and many others. Playboy: We've survived 1984 - computers haven't taken over the world, although not everyone can agree with that. The mass distribution of computers is primarily due to you, [...]

Writers about... Writers about... Writers about food, or How science fiction writers died out and were reborn in Russia

On Halloween we are supposed to talk about scary things, so today’s blog is about modern Russian science fiction. Professional science fiction writers, as we know, died out in Russia sometime in the second half of 2011, when everything started to go to hell in publishing houses. Sales of “art” then dropped sharply, and in almost all positions, with the exception of children’s literature. Publishers first grabbed […]

Optimizing the distribution of servers across racks

In one of the chats I was asked a question: “Is there anything I can read about how to properly pack servers into racks?” I realized that I didn’t know such a text, so I wrote my own. Firstly, this text is about physical servers in physical data centers (DCs). Secondly, we believe that there are quite a lot of servers: hundreds to thousands; for a smaller number this text does not make sense. Third, […]