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jerryaon Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube

Naked Yoga Youtube is new to me, but to argue the point

Bare pubes may not be necessary, but even minimal clothing on arms, torso, legs often hides many details that make learning the poses easier, and the lack of clothing on many typical, normal bodies helps normalize what a typical, normal body looks like doing yoga and so helps encourage those of us with typical, normal bodies to keep on practicing.

Perhaps the alternative is minimal underwear for pubes, but why bother, yoga via video is either 99.99% not erotic or 100% a porn movie and it's easy to determine which is which.

Yoga itself is exercise and education. Naked yoga too.

jerryaon Programmer, developer, engineer? What do you call yourself and why?

I have a degree in computer science from an engineering school, but I consider myself a

developer DEVELOPER! DEVELOPER!

jerryaon California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees

California is a huge state, and LA, Southern California is huge metropolitan area, so too is the San Francisco Bay area.

Public transportation is mostly buses and some amount of light rail, they are indeed options if you are only traveling short distances, otherwise they are not a timely option if they are any option at all.

Within the city of San Francisco, I mostly travel either by my own car, by walking, or by bus or light rail, but SF is very unique in California, but to get to places in the region, outside the city, public transit is not your best bet

jerryaon We Can Do Better Than SQL

thanks!

jerryaon We Can Do Better Than SQL

I can see the improvement of their EdgeQL over SQL...

But (as I haven't read of their blog posts) I am a bit more reluctant about the whole thing when they describe it as an ORM.

Can we leave the ORM and take the query language and implement this as a Postgres extension?

jerryaon Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

I'm all for international students but when you say they are a net positive, are they competing with US students for admission slots? If they are, that would seem to put pressure on prices US students have to pay as well as make admission that much harder.

jerryaon Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

Taxpayers are paying for the schools, the schools do contribute to the economy in a big way, but are also massive externalities on the communities. Perhaps by scaling back a big on admin and other costs the people will get a better bang for their buck -- as well as having their own kids gain the instruction.

I am not sure why state schools exist if not to teach the state students, esp. if taxpayers have to fund them. Is it strictly a jobs program then, to feed local profs, staff, restaurants and so therefore they have a duty to the taxpayer to just bring in the most income?

jerryaon Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

> The highly successful model of using tax and tuition dollars to subsidize and plant the seeds for thriving local economies is getting hit from all directions at once.

Maybe schools can pay competitive wages to their researchers while state schools focus admissions on state students?

jerryaon The software industry's greatest sin: hiring

In High School, I went to a summer chemistry program. One professor had 23 degrees, for real, ranging from chemistry to religion. I don't know if he had more than one Ph.D.

But when I got to college, one of my professors had been this first guy's student, and one of my other professors had been the second professor's student.

fwiw...

jerryaon Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling – new series on YouTube

What I find interesting & frustrating with ansible is that it is idempotent, but not everything is reversible (or is it? I am a noob with ansible.)

So how do people test their ansible playbooks if they can't easily reverse their state?

jerryaon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

> The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

> So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved -- but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.

jerryaon Ceramicspeed chainless bike can nows shift gears and carry load

But perhaps for the average cyclist this "split pinion works under load shifting mechanism" is easier to use and more reliable.

jerryaon What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves

Sigh, I was hoping to hear Hannah Fry. To this yankee, she has a wonderful accent (that sounds to me, very much like Pearl Mackie's Bill Potts)

The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry Series 12 The Horrible Hangover https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001r7k

jerryaon ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves

Because it's not authentic, it's "acting authentic".

There's a 1987 movie called Broadcast News which touches on the issues of how reporters portray the news and what can happen, and why it might be considered unethical to add touches and flourishes that add authenticity to inauthentic events.

NPR Voice is attractive, I enjoy listening to it, but what else can they sell me while they use that voice?

If NPR Voice is not spontaneous but heavily practiced, rehearsed and edited, how is it different from propaganda?

jerryaon ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves

If you've never seen it, you might enjoy Blow Out, a 1981 thriller starring John Travolta as a sound engineer who, while collecting weird sounds, an actual hobby of theirs, collects the evidence of a murder.

jerryaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

Location: Phoenix, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Preferred! (Places on a coast, ocean or Great Lake) Technologies: C/C++, LISP, SQL/PostgreSQL, Python, Tcl, Linux, Distributed Computing Resume: linkedin.com/in/jerryasher

jerryaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

Phoenix or anywhere, Remote & Relocation, Full-time / part time / contract

Stack: C/C++, LISP

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jerryasher/

Contact: jerryasher at gmail

20+ years of experience in C/C++, Linux development for embedded systems, enterprise systems, distributed systems. Some experience with Python, and JavaScript. And fwiw, I am really looking to move back to a coastal city.

jerryaon Ask HN: Why hasn't Google put Android voice recognition into Chrome itself?

Sure, but more and more Siri and Google Now are doing that training. And having used Dragon, I can say it's a very heavyweight solution that requires a great deal of training, not just of the system but of the user. I would vastly prefer a lightweight mic box next to each input field.

jerryaon When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' (2010)

For everything Hiroshima was, and it may have been a war crime, but it clearly was not a genocide.

"Rich Jews are in control of media" is a bigoted stereotype that saying "we wouldn't have heard about this except for rich Jews" runs afoul of.

Here are some pages that will let you know of the various anti-semitic tropes you referenced in your post as well as some reasons the Holocaust is unique amongst all the disgusting genocides:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust http://ww2history.com/experts/David_Cesarani/The_Nazi_hatred... http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Why_Do_People_Hate_Th...

jerryaon When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' (2010)

I am honestly curious, is English your first language, and may I ask where you were born and educated?

If you and I were in a room, and it was apparent you were an American as am I, and educated in the US, and you used phrases like the 'the Jew community', yes, that phrasing is an indicator of anti-semitism as much as either of us tossing around the n word might be an indicator of bigotry against blacks.

And I would say that is probably true for most countries where English is spoken as a first language.

When you write "Yeah, but his victims were not rich jews" you pretty much state his victims were rich Jews and if not for that, we might not hear about the Holocaust.

It is clear the vast majority of the victims of the gas chambers were very far from "rich".

Israel of course has very little to do with why we remember the Holocaust. But if you don't understand why we study WWII and the Holocaust apart from "rich Jews" again I have to wonder, honestly, where were you born and educated?

jerryaon When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' (2010)

If you don't want to be perceived as anti-semitic take some time to learn the difference between the words Jew and Jewish as in your gross use of "Jew 'community'"

When you use a phrase like "Jew 'community' and then discuss 'rich jews' as though the victims of the Nazis were solely Jews or were 'rich' it is difficult to take you as anything other than anti-semitic, which in fact, is what I consider you.

If you wish to upgrade to 'just an ignorant jerk with anti-semitic overtones' please do.

jerryaon Employment in America: WTF is going on?

I enjoy Nick's work, but I am not sure how applicable it is to many software jobs:

  People must stop begging for jobs
  
  It’s time for people to stop thinking about jobs, and high time
  to start thinking about how — and where — they can create profit.
  
  If I run a company, I’ll hire you to do work that pays off more
  than what I pay you to do it. Today, virtually no employer knows
  whether hiring a person will pay off. That’s why you need to know
  how to walk into a manager’s office and demonstrate, hands down,
  how you will contribute profit to the manager’s business. That’s
  right: Be smarter than the manager about his own business. Stop
  begging for jobs. Start offering profit.
  
  Because if you can’t do that, you have no business applying for
  any job, in any company.

I haven't seen too many software development positions in large companies where you can walk into a manager's office and demonstrate you are smarter about the manager's own business than he is.

  I know more about your specialized domain than you?

  I know more about design for your specialized domain 
  than you or your designers?

  I know more about the algorithms developed in your 
  specialized industry than your engineers?

  I know more about database design used in your 
  proprietary application?

  I know more about the customers for your specialized 
  domain and their needs than you do?

And I'm supposed to be able to claim that for any software development company I interview with regardless of industry?

I enjoy working in software, and I think I am pretty good at it, but one aspect I enjoy is that moving from company to company I learn about new domains, new industries, new algorithms, etc.

jerryaon Cryptography in the Browser

And yet, jsquery works that way, doesn't it? Everyone pulls jsquery in from basically one site...

Does the entire website have to be on that separate third party location, or just a self-booting kernel of crypto to enable a signed website to be downloaded from the desired source?

jerryaon Krugman’s Theory of Interstellar Trade

Relativistic physics often measures the passage of time in units of distance

The explanation or rationalization of this 36 year old joke explains that so does driving in Los Angeles....

How much longer till we get to Disneyland? Just another 10 miles honey.

Regardless, I always preferred 'less than 12 parsecs' as a measurement of the maneuvering within a gravitational well.

jerryaon Krugman’s Theory of Interstellar Trade

Customer service stinks. I've been on hold for 12 parsecs.

jerryaon Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea

How can you ever tell that by port alone? If a box has been exploited, it's been exploited.

jerryaon I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface

If I take real files (.doc, .cc, .py) in a folder on my computer and move them into my google drive folder on my computer, Google Drive syncs those files to the web. Now my real files exist, sync'd, in two places. My local disk and Google's disk.

If I take Google Doc files I have created in the browser and drag them from my google drive folder on my computer, into another folder, I get a file named the same as the document I had created that basically contains a URL. My gdoc files still only exist in the cloud. What I have in my hand is bupkis. So what are gdoc files? They certainly aren't real files and few people understand that they are worthless outside of the Google Drive folder.

No one expects this is how document dragging to or from folders works.

When dragging gdoc files out of a folder, there needs to be someway for Google Drive to give you the actual file from the cloud.

jerryaon $250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grifters_(film)

jerryaon $250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl

why isn't that frowned on?

Because carriage returns.

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