Author: ProHoster

How to find programming courses and what job guarantees cost

3 years ago, I published my first and only article on habr.ru, which was devoted to writing a small application in Angular 2. It was then in beta, there were few lessons on it, and it was interesting to me from the point of view of the startup time. compared to other frameworks/libraries from a non-programmer's point of view. In that article I wrote that [...]

On August 27, the legendary Richard Stallman will perform at the Moscow Poly

From 18-00 to 20-00, everyone can listen to Stallman absolutely free on Bolshaya Semyonovskaya. Stallman currently focuses on the political defense of free software and its ethical ideas. He spends much of the year traveling to speak on topics such as "Free Software and Your Freedom" and "Copyright vs. Community in the Computer Age."

Flagship smartphone Vivo NEX 3 will be able to work in 5G networks

Product manager of the Chinese company Vivo Li Xiang has published a new image regarding the NEX 3 smartphone, which will be released in the coming months. The image shows a fragment of the working screen of the new product. It can be seen that the device can operate in fifth generation mobile networks (5G). This is indicated by two icons in the screenshot. It is also reported that the basis of the smartphone will be [...]

Drako GTE: 1200 horsepower electric sports car

Silicon Valley-based Drako Motors has announced the GTE, an all-electric car with impressive performance specs. The new product is a four-door sports car that can comfortably seat four people. The car has an aggressive design, and there are no visible opening handles on the doors. The power platform includes four electric motors, one for each wheel. Thus, it is implemented flexibly [...]

Redmi Note 64 8-megapixel smartphone lit up in live shots

Xiaomi has already confirmed that it will launch a smartphone with a 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor in India later this year. Now live images of the Redmi Note 8 smartphone have appeared in China, which may arrive in the Indian market under the name Redmi Note 8 Pro. The first photo shows the left side of the smartphone with the SIM card slot and the rear […]

Schrödinger's Cat Without a Box: The Consensus Problem in Distributed Systems

So, let's imagine. There are 5 cats locked in the room, and in order to go wake up the owner, they all need to agree on this among themselves, because they can only open the door with five of them leaning on it. If one of the cats is Schrödinger's cat, and the other cats do not know about his decision, the question arises: “How can they do it?” In this […]

Configuring Out-Of-Memory Killer on Linux for PostgreSQL

When a database server quits unexpectedly in Linux, you need to find the reason. There may be several reasons. For example, SIGSEGV is a failure due to a bug in the backend server. But this is rare. Most often, you simply run out of disk space or memory. If you run out of disk space, there is only one way out - free up space and restart the database. Out-Of-Memory Killer When the server […]

Huge bosses and intense battles in the Control launch trailer

The launch of the action movie Control from the studio Remedy Entertainment, which created Quantum Break and Alan Wake, will take place on August 27 in versions for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. During gamescom 2019, publisher 505 Games and NVIDIA showed a trailer dedicated to support for hybrid rendering effects using ray tracing on GeForce RTX series video cards. And a day later, the developers […]

Video: Orcs Must Die! 3 will be a temporary Stadia exclusive - the game would not have come out without Google

During the Stadia Connect stream, Google teamed up with developers Robot Entertainment to reveal Orcs Must Die! 3. As the creators note, the action movie will be a temporary exclusive to the Google Stadia cloud gaming platform and will hit the market in the spring of 2020. For now, players can get acquainted with the project thanks to the announcement trailer: Robot Entertainment Executive Director Patrick Hudson described […]

Google unveiled a number of new games coming to Stadia, including Cyberpunk 2077

With Stadia's November launch steadily approaching, Google unveiled a new slate of games at gamescom 2019 that will be part of the streaming service on launch day and beyond, including Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legion, and more. When we last heard official word from Google regarding the upcoming service, it was revealed that Stadia would be available […]

Denuvo has created a new protection for games on mobile platforms

Denuvo, a company engaged in the creation and development of DRM protection of the same name, has introduced a new program for mobile video games. According to the developers, it will help protect projects for mobile systems from hacking. The developers said that the new software will not allow hackers to study files in detail. Thanks to this, studios will be able to retain revenue from mobile video games. According to them, it will work around the clock, and its […]

The Central Bank wants to add fast payments to the domestic messenger Seraphim

The idea of ​​import substitution does not leave the minds of officials in high offices. According to Vedomosti, the Central Bank can integrate its Fast Payment System (FPS) into the domestic messenger Seraphim. This program is developed for state-owned companies and is a kind of analogue of the Chinese WeChat. At the same time, it is curious that it allegedly involves only domestic crypto-algorithms. Whether this is true or not is unclear, but the app […]