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If you take a hungry breath – the “Power” light turns on

I specifically went online to find an answer to this question. Why don’t we have water taxis yet? Why are there no private personal motorboats on the river downtown? Something is not right here

The number of the day, I believe.

As usual, went to check before reposting.

The US restaurant market – $700 billion a year. Typical tips – 10-15%. Downside – not everyone gets them, plus – not only restaurants give them. $40 billion is quite a realistic number, despite finding nothing on Business Insider.

By the end of last year, our IT market was around 700 billion rubles (software+services+hardware), which at that exchange rate also seemed like $20 billion.

Google Inbox has introduced a new feature to the market – versioning of online applications. I haven’t encountered this anywhere else.

The idea is that each new version of an online software like email gets deployed on a separate cluster, and transitioning from the old version to the new one is done with the user’s confirmation of their desire to do so. After confirmation, some data migrates between servers and the user starts working with version +1. Theoretically, there should be a mechanism to return to the old version (-1), but I can’t find such a button yet – apparently, it’s only available to those who contact support.

Typically, online services prefer to change transparently and imperceptibly to the user. Suddenly, new settings appear in the options, etc. If something goes wrong, you can’t roll back. If there is a migration to a new version with user confirmation, it usually happens not for mass services (like “hosting”) and, typically, only between a couple of versions – “very old” (“old UI”) and “brand new” (“new UI”), after which (brand new+1, brand new+2, etc.) changes are unnoticeable to the user.

I am playing Prelude No. 4 in E minor by Chopin (op.28).

Chopin himself called this piece “Suffocation.” It is said to have been played at his funeral along with his famous funeral march. “Following a brief and ominous silence, three slow, muffled chords seem to mark eternity at the threshold of an open grave,” according to memories of Chopin’s students, its second name is “At the Grave” (Yudina).

Ivan Shapovalov, thank you

As it turns out, I do get sick sometimes.

Has anyone had a positive experience with digital thermometers? I’ve used them about 10 times (different ones) and not even one has shown a stable and accurate temperature. Meanwhile, the good old mercury ones always work perfectly.

Watched a very good thriller about the “snowball of problems”.

We are hiring programmers.

From the resume:

“… Accomplishing tasks and plans set by the management through delegation to subordinate employees of the department entrusted to me, followed by monitoring their implementation.”

Why are balloons not yet sold with single-use capsules of compressed helium – just enough for one balloon? You press a button and the balloon inflates!