A selection of events for the week. Yandex.Inside: Search and Alice August 28 (Wednesday) L Tolstoy 16 free Thanks to the work of product teams making small technological breakthroughs every day, even such monoliths as Search are changing dynamically. At the meetup we will show this dynamics using the example of the work of several teams that step by step improve the user experience in Search and Alice. Yandex.Tracker morning 29 […]
As a team leader, I want to maintain a broad outlook. There are many sources of information around, books that are interesting to read, but you don’t want to waste time on unnecessary ones. And I decided to find out how my colleagues survive the flow of information and how they keep themselves in good shape. To do this, I interviewed 50 leading experts in their fields, with whom we worked at different […]
New drivers released: Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 12.08.2019/5700/18.04.3 Added support for: Radeon RX 15 Ubuntu 1 SLED/SLES XNUMX SPXNUMX Includes: AMDGPU All-Open AMDGPU-Pro Driver Source: linux.org.ru
The beginning of the article describing the possible reasons for the underestimation of specialists can be read by clicking on the “link”. III Confronting the causes of underestimation. The virus of the past cannot be treated - until it takes its toll, it will not go away. But it can and should be resisted and complications prevented. Elchin Safarli. (Recipes for Happiness) Having identified the signs and nature of the problems leading to undervaluation of specialists in […]
Bastien Nocera has announced a new low-memory handler for the Gnome desktop. Written in C. Licensed under GPL3. The daemon requires kernel 5.2 or later to run. The daemon checks memory pressure via /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via dbus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon can also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. […]
My article today is thoughts out loud from a person who took the path of programming almost by accident (albeit naturally). Yes, I understand that my experience is just my experience, but it seems to me that it fits well into the general trend. Moreover, the experience described below relates more to the field of scientific activity, but what the hell […]
A group of activists, dissatisfied with the negative associations arising from the word "gimp", founded a fork of the graphics editor GIMP, which will be developed under the name Glimpse. It is noted that the fork was created after 13 years of attempts to convince developers to change the name, who resolutely refused to do so. The word gimp in some social groups of English speakers is perceived as an insult and also has a negative connotation associated […]
Swiss Perl Workshop: The sound leaves much to be desired. Videos are available here. PerlCon Riga: The conference was originally announced here, but the videos are available on this channel. Source: linux.org.ru
Back in October last year, Disney and Jon Favreau announced that the Disney+-exclusive Star Wars series The Mandalorian would take place after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order. The plot will tell about a lone gunfighter in the spirit of Jango and Boba Fett, who will appear on the outskirts of the galaxy, beyond the control of the New Republic. […]
Quietly and unnoticed, a new version of the famous Haskell language compiler has been released. Among the changes: Support for profiling on 64-bit Windows systems. GHC now requires LLVM version 7. The fail method has been permanently moved out of the Monad class and is now in the MonadFail class (the final part of the MonadFail Proposal). Explicit type application now works for types themselves, rather than […]
Disney intends to push its subscription service Disney+ very aggressively and will bet on universes like Marvel comics and Star Wars. The company spoke about its plans for the latter at the D23 Expo event: the final season of the animated series “Clonic Wars” will be released in February, future seasons of the fresh animated series “Star Wars Resistance” will also be exclusively released on this service, […]
Publisher Way Down Deep and developers from the Galvanic Games studio presented the project Some Distant Memory (in Russian localization - "Vague memories") - a story-driven game about exploring the world. The release is scheduled for the end of 2019 in versions for PC (Windows and macOS) and the Switch console. The Nintendo eShop does not yet have a corresponding page, but it already exists on Steam, […]
