Career, commerce and project / task management in questions and answers at the Toaster

Especially for the readers of “Megamind”, our editorial board decided to collect and summarize in one place the most interesting questions across the whole range of topics related to our resource for the last calendar month - February 2016.

It turned out a lot of them, as well as answers on the most acute and topical issues posed and resolved by users of the community.

Want to find out what is being asked on the “Toaster” and how to answer questions in the field of business, career and project management?

Section "E-commerce"

Interest Ask:
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- “How else can you make notifications, except sms and e-mail?”

Hello!

The client wants a project in which there are quite a few event notifications for the user (new subscribers, new private messages, rate changes, and so on). We are trying to figure out how to make notifications most effectively. SMS is not suitable due to the high cost (there will be tens of thousands of notifications per day). Email is unreliable (not everyone will see it at once, not everyone will leave the correct address). Are there any other ways or is it worth making an application with notification from it?

Is it possible to somehow use for this Viber or Telegram?

Thanks for answers.

Can pay attention to browser push notifications? Possibility for PC and Android (Chrome \ Mozilla).

* Send a telegram to the post office
* Courier will report a notification
* Send mail pigeon

Web browser notification
Push notification (meant for mobile applications)

Section "Finance"

Interest Ask:

- “What happens (in detail) when withdrawing funds from electronic money to a bank account?”

Hello!

Withdrawing from electronic money to a bank account can take several business days. It is clear that this is most likely due to the fact that the work is done manually. Stages are interested and who sees my money at these stages. Thank!

as in a regular bank - three steps

1) transactionally debit from the user's account (in the bank / system)
2) check the availability of money in the gateway of the target system (different types of correspondent accounts)
3) issue an order for debiting a specified amount from this gateway with associated parameters

2-3 in the case of a transfer in dollars is to instruct the bank-corr to write off the dollars in favor of another bank, with the transfer to this other bank of siftovka with payment parameters: the beneficiary's account, the destination
here it is usually semi-manual, for the bank-correspondent is chosen + there are no mutual correspondents in bank accounts - not the native currency

in rubles (2-3) can pass automatically, after approval by clerks (2-3 levels) of the sending bank. Of course, it does not follow from this that the receiving bank will rush to credit the account of the beneficiary without receiving compensation from the sender / or from the correspondent account with the Central Bank. But between equal partners (they have a correspondent account with each other) passes automatically, and after the op day the banks sum up a mutual balance.

in fact, when it is removed from the system, the clerks of the bank affiliated with the system are instructed to send money to such a bank, and then point by point

Of course, the recipient's address and the bill go into the instructions, so that all intermediate banks see this. And sometimes wrapped. The beneficiary's bank, of course, may or may not see your account in the system. When on the card - usually not, when the transfer - for the same webman WMID and purse

The delay can be organized artificially.
To once again scroll through other people's money.
Technical limitations are in many cases just excuses.

Section "Jurisprudence"

Interest Ask:

- “Can you cheat through the contract?”

Hello!
I would like to ask a question.
I recently received an order, and I had to enter into a contract with them.
In the terms of the contract in one of the paragraphs it was written: For the violation the contractor pays the customer for each violated day 2% of the amount (120 thousand).
I sent all my passport details in the form of a screenshot, and it remained to just send a signature, but due to circumstances I could not start the project and did not send the signature and said that I could not send the signature and work either, they said that everything is fine.
Question: Can they deceive me by having all of my passport data with me, but is my signature on my passport?

I worked with a customer a couple of times like this:
1. I am printing the contract. I sign, scan and send to the customer.
2. He prints my scan. Signs, scans and sends to me.

At the expense of legal force. A contract is an oral or written agreement between individuals / legal entities.
In the details you specify the e-mail of the customer and the contractor, so all correspondence will be proof if anything happens. You can probably specify some messengers, but not sure.
Even with Yandex Cashier, the contract is just sending a scan)

Attention, the correct answer. Without your personal signature, the contract is invalid. You can discuss a dozen more nuances about facsimiles and stuff, but what for it is for you, the essence of the answer is the same.
In addition, if you literally quoted a phrase from the contract “and the violation the contractor pays the customer for each violated day 2% of the amount (120 thousand)”, then it’s better not to cooperate with such people - firstly an illiterate text, secondly an absolutely unrealistic percentage of delay .

"Copyright" section

Interest Ask:

- “What is the term of copyright on a character from a cartoon?”

Hello!

We wanted to use in the promotional materials, as well as in the design of the service on the Internet, the picture and the name of the character from the cartoon "Duck Stories" named Zigzag McCryack. But it seems to me that I will violate Disney's copyright.

Is it really so? Maybe the copyright term has passed and something like that? Are there ways to use it? What threatens me with its use within Russia and the world?

Thank.

nothing will work out even if you are suddenly from Hasbro or Lego, you have to pay

if, of course, notice / learn

Make your character, Zigzag Maggryak in a cap and with a magic wand.
The necessary association will cause, it will be more difficult to find fault with you.

But it is better to consult a lawyer.

Section "Internet advertising"

Interest Ask:

- “What is the best way to make an advertisement and choose the right direction?”

Hello! The situation is this: there is a promoted brand of cable, people are looking for it, and there is a similar brand in design and parameters, but with a different name. How at the expense of the popular brand to promote its using Yandex Direct?
My ideas for the moment:

• Create a promo page with a sign of compliance and drive all traffic there
• In the title indicate the occurrences of the key of a popular brand indicating that there is an analogue (if it will allow the number of characters

Do I think true?
Is it good to use someone else's brand of cable?

Using a registered trademark in the title and description of an ad can lead to trouble. This is a violation. Moreover, Yandex will quietly miss the ad, but if the owner sees and records the fact that you use his trademark in advertising - he will simply sue and with a high degree of probability will win.
Use in key queries associated with any trademarks are not a violation. Presently.

PS: There is information that a precedent has already been created in which company A managed to prove that company B used key queries that contained the name of company A’s trademark, which led to company A.’s revenue decline. So far this is rumored because of a similar court decision I have not seen.

If we talk about advice, then:
a) conduct an audit of a competitor, find out what keywords it uses in the poison with the help of SpyWords.
b) collect and work out a good semantic core of thousands on 20-30 keywords and start.
c) think about AdWords. The share of the presence of Russian businesses in Yandex is higher than in Google. This means that to compete there at the moment is, firstly, easier; secondly, cheaper.

see how competitors do on demand, for example, digitalocean - digitalocean itself is the first in advertising, the second, for example, eurobyte, selling “vps hosting”

Advertise in the same way - in the ad do not specify the brand, and the characteristics
and signage on announcement - by brand

Section "CRM"

Interest Ask:

- “Which CRM system is suitable for the construction business?”

I have a small construction business. A permanent staff of 19 people, the rest are attracted by agreement. The problem of communication and reporting between all participants in the processes has been exacerbated. I tried more than 20 services and various systems, most of all I was pleased with the products from Zoho. Perhaps we would stop at them, but we need a local solution.
The prospective client buys an apartment, the reelter, with the consent of the buyer, communicates the contacts to my manager, who organizes the interaction between our organization, client, subcontractor and suppliers. After registration of intentions about cooperation, the estimator leaves for the object, makes measurements and counts the preliminary estimate on our price lists. We compare the price list with various classifiers. If the estimate suits the client, we conclude a contract for design work. Customer requirements are transferred to the contractor, who returns a package of necessary documents to us. Next, we play a competition for the work and enter into an agreement.
In the course of work there may be changes and claims. In order to minimize risks, we keep all documentation and history of changes (project, contractual, budget documentation, photos, video materials) This is the main sticking point. There are a lot of materials and they are loosely connected with each other. It is necessary to keep a separate register of changes and links to the project. We set all tasks to contractors in Redmine, we are activating in it. All media content we store in Lightroom libraries. Many more catalogs, with various unstructured content and drawings.
Some customers want to have access to the history of calls and documentation changes, as well as media content. Recently, they began to make broadcasts for clients in pereskop. What reduced the load on our ftp.
The average amount of content growth per client is 8.5 GB per month. At the end of the year we carry out a general cleaning.
We need to have on a local server a single system with a functionally related interface.
Primary requirements:
• Customers
• Counterparties
• Price lists
• Accounting
• Structuring content linked to customers, contractors, documents, transactions and geodata.
• Versioned content
• Contextual search for content and links.
• Ability to configure periodic tasks (backup, upload data on the client)
• Project tracker with burn chart down
• Analytics
• Wiki
Additional requirements:
• Cloud disk support
• Web server for access from mobile devices
• Personal account for customers and contractors
• Communication within the interface with binding to the client

Tell me which system (with the ability to customize on net or java) out of the box best meets my requirements?

Definitely yours. Look at sugarcrm, or suitecrm. php-progers who know how to modify them a lot.

Section "Internet"

Interest Ask:

- “I use the VPS service. How to check authorization protection on a VPS without getting into the details of a question? ”

I only know that the provider has a filter. number of requests ...
And can network tools (dns lookup eg.) By the domain name find out the hosting provider and start bruting?

What exactly do you want to check or what is meant by "authorization protection"? Somehow in detail chtol would write!

If root's password is simple, you can clear it. It is solved by limiting the number of attempts to connect to the server via SSH. Difficult password for a long enough time.
Are there probably sites on the server? Are you sure that there are no “holes” in the sites?
Protection options are quite a big zoo. Of the most famous fail2ban and portknoking.

In general, it is difficult to say something on your request, since there are no details or any specific tasks =)

Startups section

Interest Ask:

- “How to get investment in your startup?”

1) In which organization can I send a presentation / speak myself to participate in the selection of projects? In addition to IT Park, predaccelerator FRIA?
2) Can I send my project to crowdfunding in the hope of getting an investment?
3) Who has already faced with attracting investment? What was a startup? Was it hard to get?
4) Where can I find out where startup parties are held?

The problem of the startup community and society as a whole is simple - people do not understand what needs to be sold. “And how much should I owe you?” - “And how much will you give?”. This is a creepy scoop. It is necessary to somehow introduce into the consciousness, perhaps, into training, that until you start selling, you will fail.

If I were a start-up, I would squeeze “three F” to the maximum (family, friends, fools — family, friends, fools) to show that I have already achieved something and can achieve more. I would go to investors, but not for money, but for advice. So that I did not ask them for money, but at some point they themselves offered me this money.

If the project does not pay off - throw it.

Investments under it will not give

Section "Project Management"

Interest Ask:

- “Which service is better suited for studio project management?”

Good day!

It became wildly inconvenient to communicate with customers and colleagues via Skype, chat VKontakte or by email. I would like to combine everything into one, so that I can create projects, add tasks to them, specify the performers, comment on the tasks, so that the client can see the tasks that we are solving for the current moment on his project, leave his comments in the task.

I watched Bitrix 24 - a cumbersome system, everything is complicated, a lot of unnecessary things are for me, I think it should be used by large companies that want to manage their business in the cloud.

Redmine seemed uncomfortable to me, although everyone only advises him everywhere

I liked Slack for its simplicity, but these are group chats, ala skype, but maybe there is something that, in conjunction with Slack, will give what I need.

What can advise for my tasks?

Thank!

As already said, these are the same Basecamp, Slack, Trello, Asana ... But you can also choose the service according to the parameters and reviews in the Startpack system, there are categories of project management services and task lists. It depends on what is closer.

For team communication, it is better to use Slack instead of Skype-mail. As for the projects, Asana or Trello are good services.

He himself was puzzled by this very question, already a week in search and comparisons.
A general description of everything that is now on the market is given in the ideology of Plan Fix, at least it seemed to me so.
However, as written in another source summarizing the western experience of more than 100 services, a technical solution is not the main thing, the main thing is to select a set of business processes that are currently working for you and starting from them to select one or a combination of solutions.
Of all watched at the moment, vDesk24 from Aspro liked the most, by the way they implemented it as an application for bitrix24 Projects.
I liked kanban in it, project templates and the ability to turn off everything that is superfluous that hinders. Plus a subjective feeling that this is exactly how I imagined this service to myself.
According to it, I received a real case just for managing studios and up to a heap in it 5 users / 20 projects for free.
But I continue to dig in this direction, already 2 sheets with links in the evernote :)

Services Section

Interest Ask:

- “In which online service can you draw a prototype right now without registering?”

Is there any online service that you can draw right now there is a site layout, a prototype?
While not registering and get the output saved file.

wireframe.cc Great for

You can not register ninjamock.com

You go in and immediately draw (without registration) moqups.com

Section "Analytics"

Interest Ask:

- “How will learn to write data processing, machine learning and where to go with it then?”

Hello, I get incredible pleasure from posts in habrahabr.ru/hub/data_mining/ and, respectively, from habrahabr.ru/hub/bigdata/ but most of these posts for me is solid magic. While I am studying in my third year and working as a developer with Django, after graduation it would probably be great to get a job somewhere related to machine learning and data analysis. But I do not know where to start, what to read, what kind of mat. the device is needed.

Could you give the name of good books (or any other lessons) where everyone starts to explain with the basics and a list of mathematical sections that you definitely need to know. If there are better learning materials in English, then you can.
Thank.

On this topic on Habré there is:
habrahabr.ru/company/mlclass/blog/252743
habrahabr.ru/company/spbifmo/blog/276479
habrahabr.ru/post/270449

Just a week ago, on Coursera started www.coursera.org/learn/mathematics-and-python - watch lectures, it may become clearer which sections of mathematics should be pulled up, because in the course information on them is quite concise.

www.coursera.org/learn/vvedenie-mashinnoe-obuchenie

Career section

Interest Ask:

- “Am I setting development priorities correctly?”

Good evening!

Not a lot of porridge was formed in my head and I don’t know exactly how to set the sequence correctly, namely ...

From the very beginning. I make up on UpWork, there are a couple of reviews with positive feedback for five stars. But at this moment there was a problem more than before. Now I compete with people who have reviews. Customers react badly to my CV, although I approach each one individually and do not write as a template. This is one of the problems.

The second thing I decided was to expand my frontend world with sass / gulp etc to Angular. In addition, I often notice that Angular and very interesting projects are required for my skills.

And I definitely can not put everything on the shelves, a lot of things I want to pull up. I want to raise the layout to a higher level, coding to study (what exactly I wrote above), I have to have English on UpWorks, but I get out as I can.

Perhaps someone was already in such a situation and is ready to share experience or perhaps someone is ready to help just advice. I would like to hear from you: what project can be done to enhance both the layout and coding? What to do with UpWork in this situation?

In general, I will be glad to your thoughts about it!

For a start, as they say, determine your goals. You want more interesting tasks. In this case, your specialty - layout. Since you just decided to try “gulp” and sass - suppose that you are not familiar with tools like say autoprefixer. And the more webpack.

For now, I can conclude that your weak points are the processes that you use. Perhaps you can start with them. It is possible to pull up English in parallel (if we go further, it will be necessary to read too much, and ask a lot), if you feel the need.

By process, you should familiarize yourself with existing methodologies in layout. BEM, Css modules, etc. Now all popular frameworks (including angular) are essentially reusable components, and similar approaches to the layout will give you some kind of foundation.

Before you learn the framework, it is worth deciding on goals. If you need an angular knowledge at the template level - well, then you can just read it and try it in your free time. If you are interested in a qualitative understanding of everything, but before the frameworks, you need to study javascript well (and familiarize yourself with the current ES2015 standard). And after that you can start frameworks.

Section "Business"

Interest Ask:

- “How to develop a service center?”

How to open a service center and find customers? open problems no, but how to attract customers? The city is small and search queries in the internet are almost zero for the keys of interest.

1. Buy a service in the neighboring town with valid authorizations. Transfer it to your city and notify all trade organizations that you are now a warranty service for these vendors. To you bear a guarantee and the payers will come with a train. Primary costs are offset by no need for advertising costs.
2. You hire specialists who already have their name in the city. They bring their customers along along the chain. Plus a small advertising campaign. This is if you are not greedy with the salary, so that the experts would have no reason to steal their clients from the cash register.
3. We spend a lot and for a long time on various types of advertising.
Good luck.

Section "Marketing"

Interest Ask:

- “How to promote freelance exchange?”

We began to make a freelance exchange with an 8% commission and a guarantee of a refund in case of non-performance or poor-quality work of a freelancer. We will gradually reduce the% commission to 0. Tell me how to promote? Did not begin to take the commission for safe transactions. So far there are no users, because they have not finished the project yet and have not announced it anywhere. They tried to make the design as simple and convenient as possible, with an emphasis on usability. The site is already on the hosting, I can throw off if necessary.

No No one needs your exchange.
Try starting with a freelance agency.

If you do the exchange, then file down the import profile and portfolio with fl.ru. Search and add projects where the client left contact details. Invite freelancers by name. Negotiate with studios and agencies throughout Russia to place orders.

You shouldn’t think about promotion until a little life is born on the stock exchange. And life will have to create hands.

Engage in solving the problems of freelancers and customers on existing exchanges. Analyze the market. Buying Pro, 10% off order and usability are not problems.

Make an hourly payment as on upwork with a program that removes screenshots. And advertise this chip.

With money, the same freelance.ru at the start paid partners for each attracted customer (order), which is about 1000 rubles (10 years ago) and did it for a long time. Customers themselves will not come to you in some form have to pay.

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Interest Ask:

— « Zabbix agent GPO?»

Zabbix agent GPO.
BAT , ZABBIX, GPO BAT, BAT.
What can be done?

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ECHO Ok
ECHO "gsma-zabbix-agt$", Zabbix, ...
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powershell.exe -Command "& {Get-CimInstance win32_service -filter "name='Zabbix Agent'" | Invoke-CimMethod -Name Change -Arguments @{StartName="CONTOSO\gsma-zabbix-agt$";StartPassword=""}}"
ECHO Ok
ECHO Windows Firewall , Zabbix ( - TCP 10050)...
powershell.exe -command "New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName 'Zabbix agent' -Name 'Zabbix_agent' -Description 'Inbound rule for Zabbix agent service' -Direction Inbound -Program '%ProgramFiles%\Zabbix agent\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe' -Enabled True -Profile Any -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 10050"
ECHO Ok
ECHO Zabbix...
powershell.exe Start-Service -Name 'Zabbix Agent'
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