Author: ProHoster

Pitfalls on the path to becoming a programmer

Hello, Habr! In my spare time, reading an interesting article about becoming a programmer, I thought that, in general, you and I are walking through the same minefield with a rake on our career path. It begins with hatred of the education system, which supposedly “should” make seniors out of us, and ends with the realization that the heavy burden of education falls only […]

Theory instead of heuristics: getting better as frontend developers

Translation Becoming a better front-end developer using fundamentals instead of heuristics Our experience shows that non-technical and self-taught developers often rely not on theoretical principles, but on heuristic methods. Heuristics are patterns and proven rules that the developer has learned from practice. They may not work perfectly or to a limited extent, but sufficiently and not […]

Rest 1.36

The development team is excited to introduce Rust 1.36! What's new in Rust 1.36? Future trait stabilized, from new: alloc crate, MaybeUninit , NLL for Rust 2015, new HashMap implementation and a new flag -offline for Cargo. And now in more detail: In Rust 1.36, the Future trait has finally been stabilized. Crate alloc. As of Rust 1.36, parts of the std that depend […]

75 vulnerabilities fixed in Magento e-commerce platform

In the open platform for organizing e-commerce Magento, which occupies about 20% of the market for systems for creating online stores, vulnerabilities have been identified, the combination of which allows you to carry out an attack to execute your code on the server, gain full control over the online store and organize payment redirection. The vulnerabilities were fixed in Magento releases 2.3.2, 2.2.9 and 2.1.18, which in total fixed 75 issues […]

Italian regulator complains of financial damage due to Fiat Chrysler's move to London

Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' (FCA) decision to move its financial and legal services offices out of Italy is a major blow to Italian tax revenues, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) chief Roberto Rustichelli said on Tuesday. In his annual report to parliament, the head of the competition authority complained of a “significant economic loss of government revenue” caused by FCA moving its […]

MintBox 3: a compact and powerful PC with a fanless design

CompuLab, together with the developers of the Linux Mint operating system, are preparing to release the MintBox 3 computer, which combines such qualities as relatively small dimensions, speed and noiselessness. In the top version, the device will carry an Intel Core i9-9900K processor of the Coffee Lake generation. The chip contains eight computing cores with multi-threading support. Clock speeds range from 3,6 GHz to 5,0 […]

Redis Stream - Reliability and scalability of your messaging systems

Redis Stream is a new abstract data type introduced in Redis with version 5.0. Conceptually, Redis Stream is a List to which you can add records. Each entry has a unique identifier. By default, the ID is automatically generated and includes a timestamp. So you can query ranges of records by time or get new data by […]

Before Netscape: Forgotten Web Browsers of the Early 1990s

Anyone remember Erwise? Viola? Hello? Let's remember. When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Europe's famed particle physics laboratory, in 1980, he was hired to update the control systems of several particle accelerators. But the inventor of the modern web page saw a problem almost immediately: thousands of people were constantly coming and going to the research institute, many of whom were working there temporarily. “For programmers […]

Why you can't scream at your HDD

At the Ekoparty 2017 computer security conference in Buenos Aires, Argentine hacker Alfredo Ortega showed a very interesting development - a system for covert wiretapping of premises without using a microphone. Sound is recorded directly from the hard drive! The HDD mainly picks up high-intensity low-frequency sounds, footsteps and other vibrations. Human speech cannot yet be recognized, although scientists are conducting research in this direction […]

From 500 to 700 thousand rubles: Roskomnadzor threatens to fine Google

On Friday, July 5, 2019, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) announced the drawing up of a protocol on an administrative offense against Google. As we have already said, Roskomnadzor accuses Google of failing to comply with requirements regarding filtering of prohibited content. This conclusion was made based on the results of control measures carried out on May 30 of this […]

Tesla sets record for quarterly deliveries, shares up 7%

Tesla announced record second-quarter deliveries, clearing doubts about demand for its premium electric vehicles and sending its stock price up 7% on Tuesday. And although Tesla did not comment on the profitability of the work, which can only be dreamed of, reliable deliveries helped lift the spirits of investors, with whom the company has recently been seriously […]

Rumors: The Last of Us: Part II will be released in February 2020 in four editions

Rumors regarding the release date of The Last of Us: Part II have been appearing in the information field since Sony placed the game in the “Coming Soon” section. After this, various sources pointed to February 2020, but there was no official confirmation. The same month was mentioned by a Nibel insider on his Twitter, referring to a Chinese user under the nickname ZhugeEX. IN […]