Month: December 2015

December 29 2015, 15:10

I thought it was just my keyboard that was odd, with Fn where the usual Ctrl should be. But no, Lenovo released another X1 Carbon after mine, and their engineers came up with a rationalization: place ESC to the right of the space bar, and fit Home/End where Caps Lock usually is! Caps Lock – that’s double-left Shift! In the photo is Alexander Tsulin’s keyboard, working on it 😉

December 28 2015, 09:41

How to save a heap of money on a trip, say, to the USA, to Washington, for example for the dates 25.01.16-22.02.16 with Aeroflot:

– when buying in rubles 22053+19662 = 41715 rubles.

– when buying in dollars – 307+274 = 581 dollars, in rubles – 41685 rubles.

– when buying in manats – 322.13 + 287.18 = 609.31 manats. When converting to rubles – 28036 rubles (!). The exact exchange rate will be slightly different, but not by much.

Total savings on payment in manats – 13679 rubles (!) or 33% off the original ticket price (!).

December 28 2015, 08:18

“…When you play ‘Battleship,’ just don’t draw a single one-decker on your sheet. By the end of the game, when you’re winning, you can simply circle any empty cell – and that’s it, you’re clean!”

In school, in our notebooks, we played ‘Tanks,’ ‘Dots’ (also called ‘Feudals’), ‘Football,’ ‘Racing,’ ‘Battleship,’ ‘Up to a hundred,’ ‘Five-in-a-row tic-tac-toe.’

It seems that the first half of the listed games is a legacy of the USSR, and they are even unknown in the West.

Liza Alieva Liza, expand the list with modern games)

December 25 2015, 06:14

*Important*. I am leaving TEAMIDEA, but fortunately, there is no “fire” caused by this. Because this has all been very prepared in advance, long ago and thoroughly)

1. I made my decision to move and work in the USA a year ago. Initially, the most likely term was “spring-summer” 2016, but it turned out that I am starting work earlier, in January 2016. Since all the preparation within TEAMIDEA for this has been completed, there was not much difference between spring and winter. Therefore, I am leaving the company now with a peace of mind that everything has been done and is working as it should.

2. The head of the division from 2016 will be Victor Romanovsky. Vitya has been on the team exactly one year as the Director of Development, and has been involved with hybris for two years, solving many issues together with me, and there’s essentially nothing left for me to hand over to him – such is his deep involvement in project matters, hybris, and e-commerce.

3. The technical side (architects) is handled by four people of roughly equal competence with experience in 3-4 SAP hybris projects. The rest of the team members are under them. Contacts with all them are through Vitya, therefore I will not disclose their details here.

The e-commerce team has been around for 2.5 years. It currently counts more than 20 specialists and managers, who are focused on the SAP hybris theme. At this moment, it is fully formed in all roles and positions.

Currently, the company has backup resources for at least one more major SAP hybris project. So reach out to Victor for any questions and proposals)

December 24 2015, 09:53

Since the New Year, I have been living and working in the USA, in a suburb of Washington.

I’m still here, and this Friday evening at the Pasternak Bar (pasternak-bar.ru, near Mayakovskaya metro station) I hope to see those who will be glad to see me. I will be happy to have a drink with you there and talk about everything at once – moving, my birthday (which will take place entirely on a plane), the upcoming New Year, Christmas, the Constitution Day of China, and whatever else…