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Hello, Habr! What should one study? Should I pursue computer science or learn the skills of a software engineer? These questions are very relevant today. So, what will you choose? People just starting their journey in the IT field and planning to enroll in a technical university or simply seeking programming courses often encounter an overwhelming amount of […]
This is the second part of the interview included in the anthology The Playboy Interview: Moguls, which also features conversations with Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, David Geffen, and many others. The first part. Playboy: You are making a significant bet on Macintosh. It’s said that the fate of Apple depends on its success or failure. After the release of Lisa and Apple III, Apple’s stocks […]
Microsoft is working on providing Linux support in the Microsoft Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) platform, designed for proactive protection, monitoring unpatched vulnerabilities, detecting and eliminating malicious activity in the system. The platform combines an antivirus package, a network intrusion detection system, an exploitation protection mechanism (including 0-day), advanced isolation tools, additional application management tools, and […]
This is the third (and final) part of the interview included in the anthology The Playboy Interview: Moguls, which also features conversations with Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, David Geffen, and many others. First part. Second part. Playboy: What did you do upon your return? Jobs: The cultural shock from returning was stronger than the shock from the trip. Atari wanted me back […]
We laid out AI technologies from 2019 and unabashedly compared them with the forecast from 2017. First, what is the Gartner Hype Cycle? It is a sort of technology maturity cycle, specifically the transition from the hype phase to its productive use. Here comes a chart with a translation for clarity. Below are the explanations. First stage. ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶r̶. Launch. The technology appears, it is discussed […]
Streaming provider Deezer has opened the source code of the experimental project Spleeter, developing a machine learning system for separating sound sources from complex audio compositions. The program allows you to remove vocals from a composition, leaving only the musical accompaniment, manipulate the sound of individual instruments, or discard the music and keep the voice for overlaying on another audio track, creating mixes, karaoke, or transcription. The code […]
Arch Linux developers reported changes in the organization of package installation with the Linux kernel. All official kernel packages (linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, and linux-hardened) will no longer actually install the kernel image in the /boot directory. Installation and removal of kernel images will be done by the mkinitcpio script (hooks for handling kernel installation operations have only been added to mkinitcpio for now, but in […]
Almost 300 million accounts have registered in Minecraft, and this figure refers only to China. This was revealed at an event held by NetEase, the company that publishes Minecraft in the Middle Kingdom. Analyst Daniel Ahmad from Niko Partners noted on his Twitter that in this country, the game is free on PC and mobile devices. Therefore, it is not a matter of sales, […]
On January 14, the first day of the Old New Year 2017, an article titled 'Persona. Commander Norton' was published. 1987 was a significant year for me. After reading it, which caused a lot of emotions, I recalled 1987, a pivotal year in my life. It was the year when I transitioned from a junior researcher to the head of one of the leading departments at the Research Institute, which had […]
SAIPR — the genetic code of a part of it" L.I. Volkov, head of the 4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense. The title of the article combines the titles of two publications that appeared back in 1994 in the newspapers 'Moscow Warrior' and 'Red Star'. The basis of the publications was an interview conducted by military correspondent Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bezhko. And here these two publications caught my eye: The second publication has even […]
This article discusses how I organized a hackathon for my team for the first time. Experienced organizers may find the material too simple, and the story naive. I aimed it at those who are just starting to explore the format and are contemplating whether to host such an event. HFLabs handles complex tasks with data: we clean and enrich customer contacts for large companies and build client databases with hundreds of millions of records. Our Moscow offices employ 65 people, with around ten more working remotely from other […]
After a year of silence in development, work on the new branch of the fault-tolerant distributed file system LizardF 3.13 has resumed, and the second candidate for release has been published. Recently, there was a change in the ownership of the company developing LizardFS, with a new management team and new developers coming on board. The project has distanced itself from the community for the past two years and hasn't dedicated enough attention to it, but the new team aims to revive former […]