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Front end crisis?

Three days ago I created my resume. From the description it is clear that there is no real work experience, but some knowledge of Angular. No specifics. Nothing good. I created a resume and forgot... Number of views in the last 3 days: A new HR calls every 2 hours. They write in messengers. Conclusions IMHO Few people like to work with the front. Few people are willing to work for 120k. […]

Wolfram Mathematica in Geophysics

We thank the blog author Anton Ekimenko for his report Introduction This note was written in the wake of the Wolfram Russian Technology Conference and contains a summary of the report I gave. The event took place in June in St. Petersburg. Considering that I work a block from the conference site, I could not help but attend this event. In 2016 and […]

dhall-lang v9.0.0

Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: The old literal Optional syntax is no longer supported. Prohibition of surrogate pairs and non-characters. Added the toMap keyword to create homogeneous association lists from records. Beta normalization: improved sorting of post fields. What's new: Implemented import of paths as locations – […]

Tizen Studio 3.3 Development Environment Release

The release of the Tizen Studio 3.3 development environment is available, which replaced the Tizen SDK and provides a set of tools for creating, building, debugging and profiling mobile applications using the Web API and Tizen Native API. The environment is based on the latest release of the Eclipse platform, has a modular architecture and, at the installation stage or through a special package manager, allows […]

Sailfish 3.1 mobile OS release

Jolla has published the release of the Sailfish 3.1 operating system. Builds have been prepared for Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Gemini devices, and are already available in the form of an OTA update. Sailfish uses a graphics stack based on Wayland and the Qt5 library, the system environment is built on the basis of Mer, which has been developing as an integral part of Sailfish since April, and packages of the Nemo Mer distribution. Custom […]

FreeBSD fixed 6 vulnerabilities

FreeBSD has fixed six vulnerabilities that could allow you to escalate your system privileges or gain access to kernel data. The problems are fixed in updates 12.0-RELEASE-p8, 11.2-RELEASE-p12 and 11.3-RELEASE-p1. CVE-2019-5606 - An error in the close call handler for file descriptors created through the posix_openpt system call can lead to writes to already freed areas of kernel memory (write-after-free). A local attacker could […]

Release of XCP-NG 8.0, a free variant of Citrix XenServer

The release of the XCP-NG 8.0 project has been published, within the framework of which a free and free replacement for the proprietary XenServer 8.0 platform is being developed for deploying and managing the operation of cloud infrastructure. XCP-NG recreates functionality that Citrix removed from the free version of Citrix Xen Server starting with version 7.3. XCP-NG 8.0 is positioned as a stable release suitable for general use. Supports upgrading XenServer to […]

Russians will be registered - it is planned to create a unified register of individuals

The Russian government introduced a bill to the State Duma providing for the creation of a unified information resource for data on individuals. It will contain all the information - full name, marital status, date and place of birth and death, gender, identity data, SNILS, Taxpayer Identification Number, health insurance information, registration with the employment service, presence of military duty, and so on. Allegedly, the operator of the system will be [...]

PlayStation Store Launches Summer Sale Up to 60% Off

The PlayStation Store has launched a summer sale - the store offers many games with discounts of up to 60%. You can buy Assassin's Creed Odyssey, DOOM, Days Gone, Marvel's Spider Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA V Premium Online Edition, God of War and other projects cheaper than usual. The most interesting discounts in the PlayStation Store: Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 1999 rubles […]

Blizzard character designer: Sigma is barefoot because that's how they keep patients in mental hospitals

Blizzard character designer Qiu Fang explained to fans an interesting detail about Sigma's appearance. Fen said bare feet are part of his background. Patients in psychiatric hospitals are not allowed shoes. β€œWe decided to leave Sigma's feet bare to recreate the hospital look. In mental hospitals, patients are not allowed to wear shoes because they could injure themselves with the laces. Despite […]