Author: ProHoster

"Burned" employees: is there a way out?

You work in a good company. There are great professionals around you, you get a decent salary, you do important and necessary things every day. Elon Musk launches satellites, Sergei Semyonovich improves the already best city on Earth. The weather is great, the sun is shining, the trees are blooming - live and be happy! But in your team there is Sad Ignat. Ignat is always gloomy, cynical and tired. […]

I survived a burnout, or How to stop a hamster in a wheel

Hello, Habr. Not long ago, I read with great interest several articles here with sound recommendations to take care of employees before they “burn out”, stop producing the expected results and ultimately benefit the company. And not a single one - from the “other side of the barricades,” that is, from those who really burned out and, most importantly, coped with it. […]

Digital events in Moscow from 23 to 29 September

A selection of events for the week Figma Moscow Meetup September 23 (Monday) Bersenevskaya embankment 6с3 free At the meetup, co-founder and head of Figma Dylan Field will speak, and representatives from the Yandex, Miro, Digital October and MTS teams will share their experience. Most of the reports will be in English - an excellent opportunity to improve your language skills at the same time. Big expedition September 24 (Tuesday) We invite owners […]

IoT, fog and clouds: let's talk about technology?

The development of technologies in the field of software and hardware, the emergence of new communication protocols have led to the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The number of devices is growing day by day and they are generating a huge amount of data. Therefore, there is a need for a convenient system architecture capable of processing, storing and transmitting this data. Now cloud services are used for these purposes. However, the increasingly popular [...]

WEB 3.0 - the second approach to the projectile

First, a little history. Web 1.0 is a network for accessing content that was posted on sites by their owners. Static html pages, read-only access to information, the main joy is hyperlinks leading to the pages of this and other sites. The typical format of a site is an information resource. The era of transferring offline content to the network: digitizing books, scanning pictures (digital cameras were […]

Announcement of the Kubernetes Web View (and a brief overview of other web UIs for Kubernetes)

Note Translation: The author of the original material is Henning Jacobs from Zalando. He created a new web interface for working with Kubernetes, which is positioned as “kubectl for the web.” Why a new Open Source project appeared and what criteria were not met by existing solutions - read his article. In this post, I review the various open source Kubernetes web interfaces […]

Porting a multiplayer game from C++ to the web with Cheerp, WebRTC and Firebase

Introduction Our company Leaning Technologies provides solutions for porting traditional desktop applications to the web. Our C++ Cheerp compiler generates a combination of WebAssembly and JavaScript, providing both a simple browser experience and high performance. As an example of its application, we decided to port a multiplayer game to the web and chose Teeworlds for this. Teeworlds is a multiplayer XNUMXD retro game […]

“Burn, burn brightly until it goes out”, or What is fraught with emotional burnout of your employees

How I wanted to figure out what was cheaper - to fire a burnt-out employee, to “cure” him, or to try to prevent burnout altogether, and what came of it. Now a short introduction to where this topic came from. I've almost forgotten how to write. At first there is no time; then it seems like everything you can/want to write about is obvious, and then you hear a story from […]

Vivo U10 smartphone spotted with Snapdragon 665 processor

Online sources have released information about the characteristics of the mid-level Vivo smartphone, which appears under the code designation V1928A. The new product is expected to debut on the commercial market under the name U10. This time the source of data was the popular Geekbench benchmark. The test suggests that the device uses a Snapdragon 665 processor (the chip is coded trinket). The solution combines eight computing […]

My second week with Haiku: lots of hidden gems and surprises, plus some problems

Editing screenshot for this article - in Haiku TL;DR: Performance is much better than originally. ACPI was to blame. Running in a virtual machine works fine for screen sharing. Git and a package manager are built into the file manager. Public wireless networks do not work. Frustration with python. Last week I discovered Haiku, a surprisingly good system. AND […]

Paris court orders Valve to allow resale of games on Steam in France

The Paris District Court has issued a decision in the proceedings between Valve and the French Federal Consumer Union (Union fédérale des consommateurs). The owner of Steam was obliged to allow the resale of video games on the platform. The judge also decided that the company must transfer funds from the Steam wallet to users when leaving the platform and take responsibility for possible damage to devices from software distributed through […]

Epic paid over $10 million for Control exclusivity on PC

The American company Epic Games paid the Italian Digital Bros. 8,3 million pounds ($10,5 million) for obtaining exclusive rights to sell the new action adventure film Control from the studio Remedy. Digital Bros. is the parent company of 505 Games, the publisher of Control. GameDaily.biz claims that 45% of this amount will go to 505 Games, and 55% will go to the Finnish studio Remedy. Analyst […]