There are people with whom you can never talk enough, even if you have 12 continuous hours at your disposal! Thirty years ago we started just as we occasionally continue now, despite borders and circumstances. Thank you for the warm welcome, Dmitry Nilov and Natalya Rozhkova Kuzmenko!
Interesting about the music from Harry Potter
Sitting here laughing. A “Health Secrets” newspaper in the mailbox. There’s no way out. The newspaper’s website is an online drugstore. Meaning, the newspaper is just an advertisement. But it targets “grandmas” and looks like a newspaper. No mention that it’s just a flyer, though.
The article – “Student prodigy studying rays made a discovery that allows the restoration of joints.” The student, Alla Karavaeva, doesn’t show up in Google searches. The hall of the International Rheumatology Conference gave her a standing ovation. She received the prestigious “Young Scientist 2021” award for this discovery. How? Her grandfather was suffering from arthritis, and she told herself “Alla, you must help your grandfather, no matter the cost!” And off she went to make her discovery. And released drugs! And they worked! Elixir “Fleximax” and the herbal patch “Shigao Hubu.” “Why implant artificial joints when you can grow your own?” asks Alla’s curator, rheumatologist Demtsov (also unsearchable). The girl – a true patriot, insisted that the drugs be affordable for every pensioner.
Now, pay attention to the composition: sorbitol syrup, concentrated apricot juice, drinking water, white willow bark extract, calcium citrate, burdock extract, lingonberry leaf extract, boswellia extract, saber herb extract, potassium sorbate (E201), turmeric extract, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate (E211), vitamin D3. “Fleximax” is registered as “Non-alcoholic drink sweetened, enriched with calcium and vitamin D3” by LLC “Scientific and Production Enterprise ‘Laboratory of Beauty and Health'” from Protvino.
“Shigao Hubu” is entirely in hieroglyphs. Translates to “Tiger Step Patch.”
User reviews are written following such a pattern: “my boy fell, covered in blood, and it triggered my arthritis and arthrosis,” (Larionova Oxana, Kazan). Or “I jumped up with my gout to defend a 5-year-old boy from his father, and he hit me so hard that my osteochondrosis stiffened,” (Lozovaya Zhanna). Or “daughter’s leg got torn off, and I developed a spinal hernia and arthrosis,” (Yudlashin A). Then they went through the course and found happiness.
Mom has finished embroidering the “Sistine Madonna”. 84×57.5 cm. 87 colors. 250 thousand “pixels”. It took a year (indeed, a few more embroideries appeared along the way, including large ones). Now it’s time to frame it and hang it on the wall
The sky from the porthole window near Iceland – captured with an iPhone 12 Pro
I am reading a short story by Stephen Leacock, where the character asks to be given his $56 in “fifties” and “sixes”. I think maybe I misunderstood/translated it wrong, what kind of nonsense are “sixes”? Went to Google it. Indeed, Banque Nationale had issued $6 and $7 bills shortly before this story was written.
A 3D printer at home is a very handy device. Ten minutes on design, an hour and a half on printing, and the music stand is moved back by 105 mm to accommodate a keyboard. With the music sheets removed, the monitor is visible (also with music notes ;-))
>How to identify cool people at the resume stage?
I believe it’s necessary to elevate the recommendation system to a new level.
– Recommendations from people with a good reputation carry more weight than recommendations from just anyone.
– You can only get a good job by gathering recommendations.
– Those who recommend have the right to know whether their recommendations lived up to expectations. If an employee fails the probation period, the company can proactively notify the recommender that the recommended individual did not meet expectations.
– Those who are recommended evaluate recommenders by their internal metrics. For instance, recommendations from individuals in the same industry who benefit from the employee’s work are valued higher than those from a colleague.
And then no resumes with keywords are needed. Because everything will be in the recommendations. Of course, there will still be filtering by keywords and the like, but you will be able to customize your profile of people you can trust.
I’m not only upgrading from das keyboard to das keyboard after five years of use, but also switching from a Corsair mouse to another Corsair mouse after five years. Stability! The mouse is cool.
I came up with a task that trips up 90% of junior programmers and highlights candidates for mid-level positions. It consists of just three words: shuffle the array. Surprisingly, but it works very reliably.
The next level – grouping objects by field A with summation of field B to create a hashmap distinct(A) -> sum(B). All juniors and even mids, who claim they know Java streams, usually get stuck here, and most likely fail.
You can also ask them to find the longest string from an array of strings in a single lambda expression.
The next level – compare two long lists of complex objects to show what overlaps and what differs and in which direction. This is a very common business task (at least in my integration). Of course, under conditions of limited resources.
From the same category – sort (effectively normalize) JSONs that contain nested arrays of complex structures.
The questions programmers ask about these tasks and how they solve them are very telling.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 