From the translator: I found a question on Quora: What program or code can be considered the most complex ever written? One participant's answer was so good that it could very well serve as an article. Buckle up. The most complicated program in history was created by a team of people, whose names are unknown to us. This program is a computer worm. The worm was written, judging by […]
In 2017, we won a competition to develop the transactional core for Alfa-Bank's investment business and started working on it (Vladimir Dryinkin, the head of the investment business transaction core project at Alfa-Bank, spoke at HighLoad++ 2018 about the investment business core). This system was meant to aggregate transaction data from various sources in different formats, unify the data to a common view, […]
There are people who love to use high-quality components from the enterprise segment in everyday life. They want to be sure that their SSD won't suddenly fail due to a power outage or write amplification when downloading massive 4K torrents onto a fragmented NTFS partition with a 4K cluster size or during another Gentoo source compilation. Of course, such concerns rarely come to fruition […]
In May of this year, I participated as a player in the MMO event KatherineOfSky. I noticed that when the number of players reached a certain threshold, some of them would 'drop out' every few minutes. Fortunately for you (but not for me), I was one of those players who disconnected each time, even with a good connection. I perceived this […]
It seems that Microsoft designers are working on new icons for the main Windows 10 applications, including 'File Explorer.' This is indicated by numerous leaks as well as early actions by the company. Recall that earlier this year, Microsoft began updating various logos for its office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and OneDrive. The new icons are said to reflect a more modern aesthetic and align with […]
Developers of the Grsecurity project shared an educational story demonstrating how careless removal of compiler warnings can lead to vulnerabilities in the code. At the end of May, a fix for a new exploitation vector of the Spectre vulnerability was proposed for the Linux kernel via the ptrace system call. During the patch testing, the developers noticed that the compiler emitted a warning about mixing code and definitions […]
Developers of the free cloud platform Nextcloud reported that an increasing number of institutions and companies from the European Union are moving away from centralized cloud systems in favor of private cloud storage deployed on their own infrastructure. Mainly, European organizations are migrating from public cloud systems to comply with GDPR regulations and due to legal issues arising from the application of the US Cloud Act, which defines […]
A minor release of GNU Emacs 26.3 has taken place — a text editor from the Emacs family. Change list: An option help-enable-completion-auto-load has been added, allowing the disabling of the feature introduced in Emacs 26.1 that loads files during auto-completion via C-h f and C-h v; The recently designated Unicode point 'U+32FF' has been added to the Emacs Unicode character database; This is primarily a maintenance release that contains […]
The issue was that a local or remote attacker could execute programs with system administrator privileges. Currently, there is no information that this vulnerability has already been exploited, but a POC exists. On September 6th, patches will be published in version 4.92.2 in the Git repository and packages will be available on the FTP server. Source: linux.org.ru
Hello! My name is Evgeniya Goleva, I presented at TeamLeadConf with a talk about feedback and want to share with you its unofficial transcript. I managed to teach engineers to provide feedback much better than they did before under the guise of a completely different project. This required not only a long and thorough explanation of 'why and how' but also […]
Hello! My name is Evgeniya Goleva, I presented at TeamLeadConf with a talk about feedback and want to share with you its unofficial transcript. I managed to teach engineers to provide feedback much better than they did before under the guise of a completely different project. This required not only a long and thorough explanation of 'why and how' but also […]
How often do you go for interviews? If you are an adult and established in your profession, you likely don't have time to idly wander through other offices searching for a better opportunity. The situation becomes even more complicated if you're an introvert who simply cannot tolerate meetings with unfamiliar people. What should you do? According to a study by the NAIF analytical center, the most common way to search for a job […]