Author: Rauf Aliev

The guys are quite good at making Russian-language covers of foreign rock bands https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfYQ1lmPwPdxjBpW_rMJ7w

By the way, they also have a concert in Moscow on May 20th

Facebook suggested that I check out the sights of McLean. Well, it’s like the sights of Lobnya: just absolutely nothing interesting. The list included the CIA (which is not in McLean, but a bit further away, about 10 minutes), followed by amusing Chinese comments.

In my personal ranking, the accolade for the strangest film goes to Girl Asleep. I wouldn’t be surprised if no one here has seen it. On Kinopoisk, there are zero reviews. http://girlasleepfilm.com/ It’s very unusually and beautifully shot, but the director definitely didn’t do it without hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Last weekend I finished the article about the promotion mechanics and their implementation in hybris 6.x. (The article will be useful for all e-commerce people, not only for the hybris community)

https://hybrismart.com/2017/04/30/promotion-mechanics-and-their-implementation-in-hybris-6-x/

In this article, I overview the common promotion mechanics and their default implementation in SAP hybris. You may be surprised to learn that some things don’t work as expected. I explain the edge cases and typical flaws with the default implementation as well as offer words of advice on how to build it properly.

I hope it will help you to understand the limitations of hybris promotion engine and identify the edge cases.

P.S. If you have any comments and additions, please send them to me and I update the article.

At the wedding. In the church, the wifi is named wififromthesky

This off-kilter welcome shatters my sense of beauty every day.

Music of the day – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt, performed by Khatia Buniatishvili:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx-10L9tWM

Decided to reread “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome. Literally in the second chapter, I stumbled upon a sentence that seemed to me something very long. Here, my programming past kicked in, and without much thought, I dove into my laptop, downloaded the text, wrote a simple Bash+Perl script to find the longest sentence, and it turned out to be the very one I had stopped at. The author really outdid himself (see image). There was a sentence of 226 words!

Curious to see if the translators could not resist and created a single Russian sentence of 226 words. I looked. They couldn’t!

But it’s interesting to compare the translations themselves. Which one do you like more?

I think there’d be a demand for a service _in cafes_ for “professional cleaning of keyboards and displays of laptops, phones, and tablets.” Why in a cafe – see at the end.

Personally, my laptop is always connected to an external monitor, which causes dust to accumulate in the crevices of the keys and display, and the display itself gets stained – it’s hardly used, and it’s in an “aggressive environment” (I’m nearby).

Keyboards are a story of their own. It’s virtually impossible to clean them properly. You might say – just buy a new one, but that depends on the person. I bought my keyboard almost six years ago https://geektimes.ru/post/132977/ (160$).

Cleaning a laptop keyboard is even more challenging. Just blowing air is… first, not very effective; second, you need to use cans with low pressure, otherwise, it will rip out the keys. And dust tends to accumulate under them. Well, it’s worth removing at least the dust you can see.

The screen – similarly. If it’s matte, like on my DELL or Lenovo, there is always a gap between the screen and the frame where dust gets compacted and you can’t pick it out with wipes. Plus there are stains. They are visible on a black screen and invisible on a lit one. You end up noticing them at the most inconvenient times to wipe them off.

Well, it’s the same story with tablets and phones.

Cars get washed by their owners, right? Why not the same with tech equipment?

So I’m thinking. If there were such a “cafe” where you can bring your laptop, hand it over for cleaning, have a coffee or breakfast with a tablet that they provide in the meantime, and then pick up your laptop again. I see many such services, but they all seem like a service center. Technically, whether it’s a cafe or a service center, it’s the same behind the scenes, but it’s somehow more comfortable to go to a cafe. Isn’t it?

If you google “Observer Effect,” most of the search results will lead to some quasi-scientific mumbo-jumbo where it’s even linked to psychology and religion. In reality, it’s simpler: no measurement (and observation is a form of measurement) can be made without affecting the system being measured, and at the photon level, this influence becomes stronger than the phenomenon being measured. But in truth, almost no one fully understands it yet 🙂 I came across a very articulate article on the topic. Highly recommended, the subject is incredibly complex, but everything is explained very clearly in the link.

http://djames.livejournal.com/1200.html