Month: October 2015

I did it! 10 km in 49:30!!

But how?

I realized that for many years I haven’t been using Yandex search at all, as almost all of my queries are global, and all about Mail.ru services. From Yandex, only the Navigator and the Market are invaluable. I never had Kaspersky installed because it slows down the system. I don’t use abbyy products. I can’t bring myself to like 1C.

Somehow, I’m a bad patriot.

A circus in the Moscow metro – that’s something new. I can’t remember where they are from, the Duma maybe?

The games one plays barely awake

Interesting material about a working prototype of an electric bicycle created in Russia, capable of moving at speeds of nearly 100 km/h and above. I wonder, what are they not mentioning in the video?

Thank you @[100001981064147:2048:Victoria Shintekova] for the tip: “I recommend reading. The Russian translation is a very cool series of articles about natural resources, Earth’s energy balance, climate change in the next 10-50-100 years, the impact of current energy extraction methods, and about Tesla and Elon Musk.”

An interesting experience. I’m at the Savelovsky market. I need to connect my two tablets to the internet. In two buildings, where electronics are sold, I barely found a place selling SIM cards – it’s a real rarity (going out to the metro was inconvenient and far). Found Yota cards at “Startmaster.” The complete setup took 1 hour 15 minutes (!) and 1000 rubles (500 each).

Firstly, you can’t buy a card without registering it. The registration has to be done only on the devices where they will be used. To register, you need apps from the app store/market, but to download them, you need the internet. To have the internet, you need either an un-purchased card (oops) or Wi-Fi. The sellers don’t have Wi-Fi. I shared the internet from my phone. For registration, you need the Yota/Megafon network. It doesn’t catch inside the store, so you need to go outside. Additionally, you need to manually configure something called an access point in Yota – the sellers went to look up the settings on the Yota website. The apps connect to Yota servers intermittently.

Now I understand why no one sells Yota cards there. But I still don’t understand why they don’t sell ready-to-use kits from other providers.

Well, Lisa and I just love kefir 🙂 soon there will be one bottle less

It seems I haven’t yet written about our office in Volgograd, where part of our team with experience in SAP hybris development for over half a year is based. Several strong Java developers are chopping code and will soon come out with their first project.