Author: Rauf Aliev

Let’s go, Capitals! #allcaps video of the first minutes from the crowd

Here, about 80 percent of the fans are wearing red jerseys, and the majority of them feature Ovechkin and Kuznetsov.

Come cheer for the Capitals. We are sitting in this crowd waiting for the broadcast. Everything is happening just beyond that wall. Stadium tickets can cost up to a thousand bucks. Everyone here is definitely losing their mind. And, surprisingly, not a single drunk person.

Sting & Shaggy before the Stanley Cup Final match. Buzzing!

HR colleagues, why isn’t there a service in nature that allows outsourcing the initial search and interviews with candidates to the cloud? For example, I need a team of Java developers with certain skills. I find ten experts, already probably employed elsewhere, who help with the search and interviews. They can promote vacancies on their fb, LinkedIn, and even conduct interviews themselves. I receive resumes only from those who passed their filter. Depending on the profile of such assistants and/or their results, I pay some for the process and others for the outcome. They can build their network when the workload becomes too much for them (reminder, they themselves are employed elsewhere).

Roughly speaking, a programmer from mail.ru can help Yandex in searching for C programmers, maybe even without knowing that he is searching for Yandex, and Yandex might not even know that this cool guy with a strong profile and successful hiring history is from mail. But both get what they want: the guy gets money, and the hypothetical mail gets a candidate and a professional’s feedback. Of course, a rating system that allows filtering the good from the bad.

Or does something like this exist?

Loyalty, American style: forgot that the #Cava app was on my old phone and forgot my wallet. At the register, asked for five minutes to enter card details into the app that supports payment from the phone. They said just take it, and forget about it

Still entering it, will make another attempt

P.S. they said it’s a gift, no need 😉

Yesterday, we finished watching all the previous episodes of Handmaid’s Tale, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.

A very unusual series. You will like it if you are into the dystopian genre, themes of “man versus system,” and the post-apocalyptic world in general. This makes it somewhat fantastic, but at the same time, there are practically no elements of fantasy in it. It’s a reflection on the what-if scenario, something like “The Experiment” or “Lord of the Flies”. Humanity is challenged by nature (women become infertile across the globe), and it survives as best it can (organizing the remaining women into slavery and using them as living incubators). The series is very stylish, somewhat slow, sentimental in a certain way, and with beautiful music.

https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/rasskaz-sluzhanki-2017-1007426/

This is tonight’s achievement. I integrated telephony software inside this cardboard box. Now you can make calls from it and receive calls on it.

So, twenty years later, I have a landline phone again.

Technical details:

– Twinkle 1.10

– Raspberry Pi 3 B

– Google Voice Kit V1

– Google Assistant API

I have already written that I assembled a Google assistant on a raspberry pi ($30) and Google voice kit ($5). It works quite nicely. The microphone is very sensitive, and the speech recognition is simply a notch better than even on an iPhone with Siri. Apparently, due to the “special hardware” – the VoiceHat boards from the $5 kit.

Convenient features include: timer, traffic, weather, shopping list. Inconvenient features include: calendar, mail, messages, and broadcast are not supported. It’s also good to have an Android phone rather than iOS alongside this device.