June 03 2018, 10:36

Nadine’s report on yesterday’s Capitals-Vegas game.

A great addition, moving this from the next thread:

“Despite some negative comments under the article accusing our legionnaires of being unpatriotic, Kuznetsov and Ovechkin do much more to improve relations with Americans than the Russian Cultural Center and the Embassy in Washington combined. To make thousands of Americans wear jerseys with Russian last names and yell Russian first names in the streets is incredibly valuable.”

June 01 2018, 21:38

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?

May 31 2018, 12:35

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/