Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Update on Hybrismart:

Segmenting access to B2B portal goods by customers within a huge catalog (1M), a vast base of B2B customers (tens of thousands), and the need to separate access between product-customer according to millions of rules, so that no customer sees anything extra.

It seems like this is a contrived problem. We currently have two clients with such requirements. The thing is, in B2B there is an increasing number of offers based on the Make to Order principle, where a product is created specifically for a customer, and then added to the catalog for quick ordering. No one else may need this product, so it should not be shown to others. However, such products still have inventory and SKU in ERP.

https://hybrismart.com/2019/05/20/product-whitelisting-blacklisting-large-volumes-in-commerce-cloud/

While everyone’s watching the latest “Game of Thrones”, the Chernobyl series went unnoticed. Not the one you saw on TNT, but from HBO. Only the first two episodes are out, but it’s already clear from them that it’s a must-watch.

The first episode was an excellent reconstruction of the initial days of the tragedy. The authenticity meter was off the charts: the Americans managed to capture the tiniest details of the era without veering into “Hollywood”, catering to the tastes and expectations of the mainstream audience. Even the actors are astonishingly similar to their real-life counterparts. The second episode was slightly less coherent, but it still didn’t spoil the overall impression.

Importantly, before the release of the HBO film, there was almost nothing worth watching. The 2004 Discovery documentary drama was too staged, and the Polish-Ukrainian “Chernobyl: 30 Years Later” was terribly made, with a million repetitions of text and images, and a single message: “nuclear power plants are evil”.

Whether intentionally or not, the theme of the conflict at the station before the accident was completely omitted. Perhaps the scriptwriters did not find the facts compelling enough, or they had reasons not to consider them as facts. Dyatlov maintained until his death that the cause was technical, while station workers unanimously blamed him. From a dramatic standpoint, there was a lot to add to the first episode, but HBO rightly decided not to turn the episode into trivial sensationalism, focusing instead on other aspects.

Enjoy watching 🙂

P.S. Now let’s see our version on TNT.

Sometimes our pedestrian paths look like this

Interesting work. The guys claim that they’ve found the key to the Voynich manuscript (not the first nor the last, but it’s interesting to read about the actual approach to deciphering a language about which nothing is known)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1599566

It turns out, Americans pronounce niche as ‘nitch.’ And as a follow-up, just in case someone didn’t know, anxiety is pronounced as ‘ang-zahy-tee’ (as much as it can be conveyed in Russian letters).

This is the coolest Apple store I’ve been to. It opened on Saturday. It occupies almost the entire Historical Society of Washington building.

Currently, I am diving into (and simultaneously writing an article about) passwordless authentication systems. And I can’t understand why Apple hasn’t yet made a phone that can serve as an authentication tool on desktops. Imagine logging into something like Google Mail, and it simply asks you to swipe your phone, look at your iPhoneX, or press a button on your watch. You swipe, look, or press, and voila, you’re authenticated in your email. Of course, this would need to work when the computer and phone or watch are nearby and belong to the same user (both devices logged into the same iCloud account). It would be incredibly convenient.

Alex Patsay

Is the navigation in the Moscow metro inconvenient? Just like in Washington DC. The image shows a segment of the line that remains to be traveled. That is, the current station can’t be found at all. The whole segment doesn’t fit, so the last four stops are displayed over several slides.

Interesting service. It queries the HLR database. Here’s the link to a test page. Works with any phone numbers. Checked my own and several Russian ones. https://smsc.ru/testhlr/ There is an API

Last week I attended the biggest SAP conference, and here are my takeaways. 30 thousand people, nearly two hundred thousand square meters of exhibition space, hundreds of sessions, celebrity guests, and a finale concert by Lady Gaga. Walked my feet off, overloaded my brain for months to come.

At the end of the article, there’s a video where Lady Gaga explains what SAP is ;-)) very amusing

https://hybrismart.com/2019/05/12/takeaways-from-sap-sapphire-now-and-cx-live-2019/