Month: March 2017

Winter is retreating. It’s 25 degrees Celsius outside. And snow)

The little church at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

In this café in Washington, there’s always a huge line. Today, for instance, around a hundred people. This is because they sell the tastiest cupcakes in town. Waiting to try one. Already been thirty minutes.

Some snow hasn’t melted yet. Twenty-five degrees! Lisa has a competition today, the weather is certainly not for running (

I have read the book “Write, Edit: How to Craft Powerful Text” by Maxim Ilyakhov.

Highly recommend it. Here is the link to my notes. I made them while reading. The textual version of the notes can be found here – https://goo.gl/yZAdPX (it’s better to open it from a mobile device)

Sharing is welcome, we need to somehow thank the authors for their very useful work. Buy here: https://book.glvrd.ru/

https://mind42.com/mindmap/46101e24-f91d-4439-8f64-b3a64f25f85e

The phone hasn’t been working for two days. How do I install a new Android over the non-working one? Reading the docs.

At the same time, a silly thought creeps in that overall, the phone is becoming almost unnecessary. I’m either at home or at work with Skype and Facebook, and outside of work on weekdays, it’s about 10 minutes a day (the commute to and from the office). You can make calls from the computer, and it’s sometimes even more convenient to dial others from there.

IKEA in the USA

(climbing out from under the bed car)

Did you know that inside a common incandescent lamp there’s no vacuum but rather nitrogen and argon under slight pressure, and in the base of the lamp there is a fuse that interrupts the electricity flow to the filament as soon as it breaks?

So, this fuse also protects against the bulb exploding. If you’ve ever had bulbs explode, it means you ended up with fuseless bulbs, as these are sometimes found. The explosion is caused by an electrical arc which heats up the gas inside, making it expand and causing the bulb to burst loudly. An arc occurs when the filament breaks and under fortunate circumstances, it persists long enough to heat the gas. Initially, when the bulb is switched on, the current is higher due to transitional processes, which finally breaks the filament, followed by the arc and the burst.

It’s also interesting to note that the temperature of the filament inside the bulb is 3000 degrees. A gas absorbent is applied to the filament.

It’s very interesting to sequentially watch videos about light bulb production abroad and in Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BylLOWRojyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGmgqxciB0

Today’s article about “Image Crop & Resize 2.0” – a product we created for a hybris contest at EPAM.

And in the end, we surpassed everyone and won! In May, I’m off to Orlando for a week for a hybris event. Work, work, it’s such a sneaky prize 🙂

Follow the link for screenshots, videos, and technical details.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/03/20/crop-resize-in-product-cockpit-2-0-a-bridge-over-the-impossible/