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Racing electric car Volkswagen ID. R sets record for world's hardest track

Volkswagen ID racing car. The R, equipped with all-electric drive, set a new record - this time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Let us recall that last year the electric car Volkswagen ID. The R, driven by French driver Romain Dumas, broke records for the Pikes Peak mountain course and the Goodwood Festival of Speed ​​circuit (for electric cars). To check in […]

Foxconn leadership faces restructuring due to Gou's possible departure

The management system of the largest contract manufacturer Foxconn is expected to undergo a major restructuring due to the possible departure of CEO Terry Gou, who has announced his intention to take part in the presidential race in Taiwan in 2020. The Apple supplier plans to overhaul its entire management structure to bring more senior executives into day-to-day operations, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. How […]

19 hydra heads. Great overview of the program

On July 11-12, the Hydra conference dedicated to the development of parallel and distributed systems will be held in St. Petersburg. The thing about Hydra is that it combines top scientists (who are usually found only at foreign scientific conferences) and well-known practicing engineers into one big program at the intersection of science and practice. Hydra is one of our most important conferences in recent […]

5 security questions for a quick job search in Germany

According to German recruiters and hiring managers, problems with resumes are the main obstacle to working in a European country for Russian-speaking applicants. CVs are full of errors, do not contain the information the employer needs and, as a rule, do not reflect the high technical skills of candidates from Russia and the CIS. In the end, everything results in a backdoor mailing of hundreds of applications, 2-3 [...]

"Bitrix24": "Quickly raised is not considered to be fallen"

To date, the Bitrix24 service does not have hundreds of gigabits of traffic, there is no huge fleet of servers (although, of course, there are quite a few existing ones). But for many clients, it is the main tool for working in the company, this is a real business-critical application. Therefore, falling is, well, impossible. But what if the fall did happen, but the service “resurrected” so quickly that no one […]

Why just upgrading your coding won't make you a better developer

Techlead Skyeng Kirill Rogovoy (flashhhh) gives a presentation at conferences in which he talks about the skills that every good developer should develop in order to become the best. I asked him to share this story with Habra readers, I give the floor to Kirill. The myth about a good developer says that he: Writes clean code Knows a lot of technologies Codes tasks faster Knows a bunch of algorithms […]

Miracles of accounting methodology: sinking fund

I love programming - it works wonders. But you know much more about programming than I do. However, miracles occur not only in programming, but even in such a musty and calloused area as accounting. Yes, yes, in it itself - in the accounting department, for which I have ambivalent feelings: sincere and ardent sympathy (after all, this is my initial […]

What's new in Veeam Availability Console 2.0 Update 1?

As you remember, at the end of 2017, a new free solution for service providers, Veeam Availability Console, was released, which we talked about in our blog. Using this console, service providers can remotely manage and monitor the security of virtual, physical and cloud user infrastructures running Veeam solutions. The novelty quickly gained recognition, then a second version was released, [...]

Catch Me If You Can. Director version

"Catch Me If You Can". That's the name of Steven Spielberg's film. I looked, it's interesting. But it’s not true, even though it’s based on real events. In reality, "catch me if you can" is such a game. I see this game every day, and even participate in it. And I feel about the same as the hero of Spielberg’s film – the one […]

Checking competencies with tests - why and how

In my article, I looked at 7 ways to quickly test the competencies of IT specialists, which can be applied before conducting a large, lengthy and time-consuming technical interview. Then I expressed my sympathy for time-limited tests. In this article I will cover the topic of tests in more detail. Time-limited tests are a universal tool that is well suited for testing knowledge and […]