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At the beginning of a developer's career, it can often be daunting: unfamiliar problems arise, there is much to learn, and difficult decisions must be made. In some cases, we may make mistakes in those decisions. This is completely natural, and there's no need to beat yourself up over it. What is worth doing is to remember your experiences for the future. I am a senior developer, […]
The release of the PoCL 1.3 (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) project is available, which advances the implementation of the OpenCL standard, independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers, allowing the use of various backends for executing OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project code is licensed under the MIT license. Support for operation on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, and various specialized TTA processors (Transport […]
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), overseeing the development of the AV1 video encoding format, has issued a statement regarding Sisvel's attempts to form a patent pool to collect royalties for using AV1. AOMedia is confident that they will overcome the challenges that have arisen and maintain the royalty-free nature of AV1. AOMedia will protect the AV1 ecosystem through a specially created program for […]
After a year of development, the release of the Apache CloudStack 4.12 cloud platform has been announced, which automates the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of private, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructures (IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service). CloudStack was transferred to the Apache Foundation by Citrix, which acquired the project after purchasing Cloud.com. Installation packages are prepared for RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu. CloudStack is hypervisor agnostic and […]
On March 21-22, 2019, my colleagues and I attended the AgileDays 2019 conference, and I would like to share a bit about it. Location: Moscow, International Trade Center What is AgileDays? AgileDays is an annual conference on agile process management, now in its 13th iteration. If you are unfamiliar with concepts like 'flat organizational structure' and […]
The Matrix — a film by the Wachowski siblings — is rich in meanings: philosophical, religious, and cultural, and occasionally it is analyzed through the lens of conspiracy theories. Another meaning pertains to team dynamics. In the team, there is a seasoned team lead and a young specialist who needs to be quickly trained, integrated into the team, and sent to accomplish the task. Yes, there is a specific vibe with the leather coats and sunglasses in […]
Google has previously begun shutting down the social network Google+, which had effectively ceased to function for regular users. The corporate segment of the network remains operational and is now renamed Currents. This applies to those using the G Suite package. Currently, the Currents service is available in beta, and after registration, existing content in the organization can be migrated. […]
Last weekend, the nineteenth international literary conference on fantasy issues, "RosCon," took place at the Lesnye Dali health resort in the Moscow region. The conference hosts a variety of events, including those aimed at aspiring authors — master classes from Sergey Lukyanenko and Evgeny Lukin. Interested individuals need to send a story. The organizing committee conducts initial moderation for compliance with formal requirements, and selects the necessary amount […]
Hello everyone! In the first part, we thoroughly discussed how to create and work with a dApp (decentralized application) in the Waves RIDE IDE. Now let’s test the example we analyzed a bit. Stage 3. Testing the dApp account What issues stand out immediately with the Alice dApp Account? First: Boob and Cooper might accidentally send funds to the dApp address using the usual […]
Hello everyone! Recently, Waves Labs announced a competition for developers tied to the release of the RIDE programming language expansion for decentralized applications, Ride4Dapps, in the test network! We chose the DAO case as Ventuary plans to develop a dApp with social features: voting, fundraising, trust management, and more. We started with a simple example in a Q&A session and in RIDE […]
Even during the announcement of the first GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, many believed that their considerable size was due to the presence of additional blocks: RT cores and tensor cores. Now, one Reddit user has analyzed infrared images of the Turing TU106 and TU116 graphics processors and concluded that the new computational blocks do not occupy as much space as anticipated […]
Developers from Google have introduced a new method of two-factor authentication that involves using an Android-based smartphone as a physical security key. Many have already encountered two-factor authentication, which requires not only entering a standard password but also using a second tool for identity verification. For example, some services send an SMS message after entering the user's password, in […]