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1. Strategic Vision The feature and value of a product company, its main mission and objective, is customer satisfaction, engagement, and brand loyalty. Naturally, this is achieved through the products created by the company. Thus, the company's global goal can be described in two parts: Product quality; Quality of feedback and change management in dealing with feedback from clients/users. It follows that […]
In the last issue of "The Zinc Sale," we discussed three articles on the effectiveness of various processes. About "How Bezos Disabled PowerPoint," "A company owner makes his team work 5 hours a day without distractions," and "Asynchronous communication for dualists." This article is a compilation of short excerpts from all three along with my subjective reflections under the banner of universal frustration from inefficiency. […]
Another minor release of the QVGE visual graph editor. Primarily, it fixes issues and crashes noted earlier. Notable updates include: the ability to resize graph nodes using the mouse (in transformation mode), scrolling the field when selecting objects, a mini-help panel added, and an automatic return to the field state prior to invoking 'Zoom to Fit' (which was highly requested). Source: linux.org.ru
After a year of development, the release of Stratis 2.0, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the tools for configuring and managing pools of one or more local storage devices, has been published. Stratis offers features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. The project code is written in Rust and […]
GitHub has published a report analyzing statistics for 2019. The most interesting change is the rise of the Python language to second place in the ranking of programming languages used on GitHub. Java has moved to third place, while JavaScript remains the leader. PHP has maintained its position in fourth place. The C++ language was shifted from fifth place by C#, and […]
The Free Software Foundation has introduced new devices that have received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, which confirms the device's compliance with privacy and user freedom requirements and grants the right to use a special logo in related product materials, emphasizing the provision of full control to the user over the device. The FSF also launched a separate website for the Respect Your Freedom initiative (ryf.fsf.org), where […]
In full accordance with the plans and without obstacles from antitrust authorities, Broadcom has completed the acquisition of Symantec’s division focused on developing solutions for corporate computing platform security. The deal was announced in August of this year following very challenging negotiations. Initially, Broadcom sought to acquire Symantec entirely for over $15 billion. However, Symantec's inflated self-assessment prevented […]
Good day, today I want to tell you about a device that I developed and assembled. Introduction Height-adjustable desks have been on the market for a long time with a wide variety of models available — practically something for every taste and budget, although this is one of the topics for my project, but more on that below. I'll provide links later […]
OpenIndiana is an operating system based on OpenSolaris. It is part of the Illumos Foundation and provides a true open-source alternative to Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, including an open development model and full community participation. The latest release of the project, OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10, transitions some tools from Python 2 to version 3 along with several updates […]
Google has unveiled a new open project called OpenTitan, which serves as a platform for creating trusted hardware components (RoT, Root of Trust). The foundation of OpenTitan is based on technologies already used in Google's Titan cryptographic USB tokens and TPM chips for ensuring verified boot processes, which are deployed on servers in Google's infrastructure, as well as on Chromebook and Pixel devices. The code related to the project […]
Hello, Habr! I present to you the translation of the article "Children’s Exposure to Digital Technology Causes Parental Anxiety" by Kim Flaherty and Kate Moran. While parents in America worry about their children enjoying technological advancements, parents in China think about how to protect their kids from technological madness. How do technologies affect modern children and their lives? […]
Google has opened the source code for the development toolkit for the Cardboard platform, which allows any smartphone to create affordable virtual reality headsets. In its simplest form, creating a headset involves cutting a cardboard frame to hold the smartphone in front of the user's eyes, along with using two lenses for focusing. The Google VR SDK for developing virtual reality applications […]