Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

On the radio, some guy was talking for an entire hour about how wonderful it is to work in defense, and the new repair, and developers earn up to 150K, after which he concluded his speech by saying that their workday in Moscow starts at seven in the morning.

I now have Russian TV in front of the treadmill, and here’s what I’ll tell you – it’s interesting to watch, if muted.. Right now, there’s some Russian action series on, listening to Eddie Boyd’s “Five Long Years”

Beautiful performance of Gershwin’s Summertime (Eiran KATZENELLENBOGEN)

Great selection. Probably the most useful of these – Posemaniacs

http://www.adme.ru/tvorchestvo-hudozhniki/28-poleznyh-sajtov-dlya-hudozhnikov-816660/

Reading an essay about BM, there’s a mention of a 10-15% conversion rate, which these “Entrepreneurs” argued about. But back in the early 2000s, I had an e-commerce “business” with a conversion rate of 10-13%. It was real.

We sold the internet on CD-ROM with delivery. We negotiated with website owners who had rich, often original, content to place a “Buy this site on CD” button on all their pages, created discs with downloaded pages from the content, equipped them with a search feature, and shared the profits from each disk sold. The link from the partner’s site led to a product card with related items, so many orders were for 2-3 discs. Some of the discs were live CDs with free operating systems. Payment was mostly cash on delivery. That was also when I first registered as a sole proprietor.

It was called NaDiske.Ru.

About 100-200 people visited our site from a dozen partners, and of those visitors, 10-20 would purchase discs.

We closed down because progress meant regions were diving into normal internet services (and sales were mainly in the regions), and the discs needed to be refreshed as the content became outdated.

Remember Dmitry Mottle?)

@[100001539238582:2048:Dmitry Voloshin] this is how you should make courses! 🙂 learn from this for Technopark 🙂

There’s a whole channel – http://codebabes.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y98q4fzIaak&list=UUVg4DAiKW5WgPKKbQAJ89MA

I’ve noticed that I subconsciously classify songs into three categories (music, voice, lyrics). It’s rare for a musician to excel in all three areas at once. Either it’s a strong beat with good lyrics (Vysotsky and other bards), or the lyrics are terrible, but the music and voice make up for it (there are many examples, from Armstrong to Mumiy Troll). Very rarely do all three components excel. “Na gora” reminds me of Mayak by Splean/Mayakovsky.

Bunker 42

From the “Useless Knowledge” section: Read about ethnonyms (Demonyms). It turns out, it’s not just in the Russian language where there are excessive complexities with naming the people who inhabit a city or country. For example, residents of Lviv are called Lvivians in Russian and Leopolitans in English. In Madagascar, you have Malagasy, and in Los Angeles, where I’ll be going soon, residents are called Angelenos. In the city of Torzhok in Tver region, the inhabitants are novotory (the city was formerly called Novyy Torg), and in Mtsensk, they are called amchan. Residents of Voronezh are known as voronezhets, voronezhets, but what to call a female resident… vorozhenka?.. turns out, no such term. In Tver, locals are referred to as tverichane, tverichi, tverityane… In Chernivtsi, the inhabitants are called krayane.

When I was in Wales and England, I was struck by the fact that the language, people, and the localities sometimes have different names. In Wales, residents are Welsh,

in Manchester — Mancunians, in Liverpool — Liverpudlians. There are also Vitebsk citizens known as Viteblyane…

The “WORLD OF MATHEMATICS” series has finally concluded, which I barely managed to keep up with during my infrequent subway rides. The 12 thousand rubles spent over 45 weeks were not in vain – it was worth it. Now, they have introduced Wi-Fi on our subway line and a new series is coming out, “Science. Greatest Theories.” It will be even harder to read 🙂