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An interesting experience. I’m at the Savelovsky market. I need to connect my two tablets to the internet. In two buildings, where electronics are sold, I barely found a place selling SIM cards – it’s a real rarity (going out to the metro was inconvenient and far). Found Yota cards at “Startmaster.” The complete setup took 1 hour 15 minutes (!) and 1000 rubles (500 each).

Firstly, you can’t buy a card without registering it. The registration has to be done only on the devices where they will be used. To register, you need apps from the app store/market, but to download them, you need the internet. To have the internet, you need either an un-purchased card (oops) or Wi-Fi. The sellers don’t have Wi-Fi. I shared the internet from my phone. For registration, you need the Yota/Megafon network. It doesn’t catch inside the store, so you need to go outside. Additionally, you need to manually configure something called an access point in Yota – the sellers went to look up the settings on the Yota website. The apps connect to Yota servers intermittently.

Now I understand why no one sells Yota cards there. But I still don’t understand why they don’t sell ready-to-use kits from other providers.

Well, Lisa and I just love kefir 🙂 soon there will be one bottle less

It seems I haven’t yet written about our office in Volgograd, where part of our team with experience in SAP hybris development for over half a year is based. Several strong Java developers are chopping code and will soon come out with their first project.

Instagram added the ability to post landscape photos, but the app developers still haven’t taught it to work in landscape mode – it’s a must for tablets. The logic of some people is strangely arranged.

Interactive fitting room from Teamidea

An eye-stopper at our SAP Forum booth: our experiment with RFID, “interactive fitting room”. Upon entering the “fitting room”, the system detects which clothes are inside the fitting room, and the mirror displays information about the products, recommendations, related looks, and other useful information.

From the fitting room, you can order a different color, size, or recommended item. In this case, a push notification is sent to the consultant’s phone in the sales area, which they confirm, and the screen in the fitting room displays that the consultant has acknowledged the request and they are either bringing the item or not.

Eye-catcher at our SAP Forum booth: our experiment with RFID, “interactive fitting room”. When entering the “fitting room,” the system recognizes the clothes present inside the fitting room, and the mirror displays information about the products, recommendations, related looks, and other useful information.

From the fitting room, you can order a different color, size, or recommended product. In such cases, a push notification is sent to the consultant’s phone in the sales area, which they acknowledge, and the screen in the fitting room displays that the request has been heard and the item is being brought (or not brought).

Interestingly, does the ban on government officials using Google services automatically prohibit them from using Android phones, where else is it impossible?

How do they plan to check this? Back in the early 2000s at Arstyle company, CEO Mark Tverdynin besides banning going to lunch in large groups (then more than three people), also set a limit of 300 ICQ messages per day. It was funny then because there was a ban, but no way to enforce it.

Devil-machine

I had an idea to use Yandex.Taxi as a courier service. Seems convenient.

Specifically today, I urgently need to deliver a package from Zelenograd to the south of Moscow. Eventually, I decided not to risk it and to order a courier, but then I thought – why not call a taxi to that address and have it travel to my work with an empty cabin but a small package (the contents of which can be shown to alleviate any fears)? Payment by card, a person will meet it on location. I can hardly find any downsides, it turns out to be cheaper, reliable, and fast. The car arrives in 5 minutes, and the delivery costs 1100 rubles.

Using taxis as a means of delivery is also convenient because they are allowed to drive in dedicated lanes, and compared to couriers, the car arrives very quickly to the sender. The only downside I’ve found is that the taxi driver doesn’t know what to do if they aren’t met, phones don’t answer, etc. If this issue could be resolved, the taxi network could be turned into a pretty good courier network within the city. Almost could transport pizza and beer.

P.S. eventually, that’s how I delivered it;)

I’m currently listening to a lecture on YouTube and I noticed how we often like to mispronounce certain English words. Here are the ones I recalled:

1) not “service”, but “sYOvis” (service)

2) not “key”, but “kii” (key)

3) not “invalid”, but “inVAlid” (invalid).

4) not “null”, but “nal” (null)

5) not “control”, but “controlOul” (control)

6) not “default”, but “defolt” (default)

7) not “procedure”, but “presIdzhe” (procedure)

8) not “character”, but “kErakte” (character), yet “char” is “chAA”

9) not “archive”, but “arkaiv” (archive)

10) not “retry”, but “retrai” (retry)

11) not “adobe”, but “edOubi” (adobe)

12) not “bind”, but “baind” (bind)

13) not “header”, but “header” (header)

14) not “cyrillic”, but “syrilyk” (cyrillic)

15) not “driven”, but “driven” (driven)

16) not “echo”, but “ekou” (echo)

17) not “locale”, but “louKA:l” (locale)

18) not “pseudo”, but “sudo” (pseudo)

19) not “ruby”, but “rubi” (ruby)

20) not “suite”, but “svit” (suite)

It was a revelation for me at the time that “threshold” is actually pronounced “teshold/treshold,” while I stubbornly called it “tresxold”

And the word “Hireraki” was initially unrecognizable (hierarchy)

#English #pronunciation #notes