Month: September 2019

Watched this short film and the movie “Stranger than Fiction” back to back. Both are simply fabulous (and share a common theme)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA–eKU

Amusing combination

Published a large and detailed (40 pages, 21 diagrams) article about everything related to card payments on the internet, integrating payment systems into websites. Best practices, edge cases, risks, opportunities, architecture, latest innovations, etc. I tried to consolidate everything I knew from my time at Chronopay and learned in the process of working on the online stores of Svyaznoy and Enter.

Co-authored by @[100001044160267:2048:Aleksey Kryuchkov], with whom I have gone through thick and thin at Svyaznoy. He recently joined us at EPAM, and before that, he carried Svyaznoy.ru on his shoulders for over eight years in everything related to development and support. Huge thanks to him for the help in preparing the material!

https://hybrismart.com/2019/09/08/payments-a-look-inside-the-black-box/

The clock has finally started telling me how much I sleep. This month, on average, it’s five hours and twenty minutes a day. And I don’t really want any more than that)

Funny – the query “Muscovites” on Yandex and Google )

Update: they have different notions of what “crazy” means 🙂

Update: well, might as well add the Russian spring to the mix

Update: how propaganda sounds !!!!

Update: on Google, the search for “guests” shows Winnie-the-Pooh as the top result) on Yandex, he’s not there at all

Update: “torse hunting” on Yandex shows you-know-who, but on Google, it doesn’t show at all in the first hundred

Update: idiot shows Trump on Google, and Dostoevsky on Yandex

Update: Moscow tile

Update: who outplayed everyone?

Update: romance in Russia

Update: it was a mistake to type “fourth president of Russia”, “fifth president of Russia”, “sixth president of Russia”…

Update: Google and Yandex have different views on Russia’s future

An interesting diagram showing the mess with the system of units that exists in Canada. The metric system was introduced there in 1970, but the transition was never fully completed (it is said that a very progressive conservative government came to power).

As a result, construction and mining measure length and depth in feet, engineers and science — in meters. Meat and vegetables in stores are in pounds, chocolate bars — in grams, cannabis — in ounces, everything else alternates between pounds and kg. Human height — exclusively in feet, distances — in kilometers. Outdoor temperature is announced in degrees Celsius, in the oven — in degrees Fahrenheit. The area of rooms is in square feet, land — in acres (an acre is 66 x 660 feet, very convenient). Volume of liquids — in liters, bulk materials — in cubic yards.

(Diagram from Reddit, found the info on d3/hulio)

Hurricane Dorian is currently approaching Florida. I came across how they are named, and it’s quite unusual. There’s a pre-prepared list of names, with each successive name starting with the next letter of the alphabet. Each season starts with A. If they run out of letters, they move on to Greek ones. Names repeat every six years, but! if a hurricane turns out to be destructive and many people suffer, its name is retired and is never used again. Two years ago, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate were retired. Female and male names alternate, as do the years that start with male and female names. Now it’s Dorian, starting with a D, so it’s the 4th. This year, there are also Olga and Tanya, but it probably won’t get to them. 15th and 17th.

Someone really got into it, huh?

This is great) my playlist for today

mix of Slayer + Ace of Base, Metallica mixed with Macarena, Grebenshchikov and the band Serebro, Kadysh eva with Megadeath, System of Down with the band Kombinatsiya and their “Bookkeeper”, well, all the good stuff 🙂

The Amazfit GTR 47mm finally reached me, and I must say I’m absolutely thrilled, highly recommend it. There’s a sale on gearbest right now, they’re going for 150 bucks. And they are quite well-made. AMOLED, 326PPI, Gorilla glass, 50m waterproof, dual GPS/GLONASS, the battery lasts 24 days, integrates with Strava and Apple Health, and of course, it supports texts, notifications, calls. After two days of active use, 100% dropped to 99%, so 24 days without charging looks entirely plausible. It also has some nifty but useless features like an altimeter and an air pressure sensor.

Walking through the park, I notice with my peripheral vision that something is standing right beside us, watching. About two meters away. We took a couple of steps back and had a photo session. The deer posed for another minute without moving, then ran away 🙂