Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

“Immortal Regiment” in Washington.

Now all Google ads keep showing me the hotel I’ve already booked in Florida. Seriously, why do I need that now?

And yet, ideally, advertising should work differently… why not let me enter the keywords/queries myself that define the themes I want to see ads for. Like things to do in Florida or Disneyland universal studio SeaWorld coupons or rent a car in Florida? And also specify a time after which these queries become irrelevant. Rented a car – went in, deleted the query. Or entered a new one. Or I have some wishes for my birthday, I could list them, and I wouldn’t mind receiving a good offer – after all, some advertiser will mention these keywords somewhere. Let advertisers find me with last minute offers for hotels and stuff. Why doesn’t it work this way?

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?