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Great explanation; I can't stop watching the teaser http://popcornlinux.org/sources/video/sosp-19-tutorial.mp4 http://popcornlinux.org/sources/video/sosp-19-tut
by rasengan0 6y ago
Great explanation; I can't stop watching the teaser http://popcornlinux.org/sources/video/sosp-19-tutorial.mp4 http://popcornlinux.org/sources/video/sosp-19-tutorial.mp4
- secondo 6y agoThis is off topic, but it's proving hard to google. What's the significance of the hand gesture the women in the video makes at 1:13 and again at 1:39?
- uryga 6y agolooks like that clip of her is looped, so it might just be a random hand movement that looks meaningful bc you see it twice
- uryga 6y agowow, i sure feel dumb about this now! thank you, sibling commenters who actually know stuff :)
- neeleshs 6y agoIt is a prevalent hand gesture in the Indian subcontinent. Could mean a lot of things, and interpreted along with the facial expression. In this case, it means "That's pretty cool", looking at her facial expressions. It could mean "What the heck is going on?", when accompanied with a different facial expression.
- qubex 6y agoExactly the same in Italy. Weird, that.
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- zabil 6y agoIt means "wow, impressive".
- qubex 6y agoSurprisingly, as an Italian, I know exactly what this means: “wonderful, amazing, perfect”.
- dariosalvi78 6y agoas an Italian, I understand this as "to steal"
- qubex 6y agoI’d denote stealing with my palm facing downwards. I actually had to try it out in real life... I can’t think of gesticulating in the abstract. Seems like you can take the Italian out of Italy but not Italy out of the Italian.
- teddyh 6y agoThat video desperately needs subtitles. Or, preferably, people who can speak intelligible English.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoI was far more distracted by the adorableness of very enthusiastic people that aren't really skilled at reading off a teleprompter than their accents. Being able to understand ESL speakers seems like an increasingly important skill if you work in tech, was it really that hard for you?
- gladskdks 6y agoI can't agree more. Outside of the US you're interaction with ESL speakers varies wildly but it's a pretty essential skill nowadays. I'm the only native English speaker at my company. Some folks speak perfectly, others don't. The people in this video spoke though, even if they did have a fairly heavy accent.
- brabel 6y ago> Outside of the US you're interaction... * your interaction Sorry, couldn't resist correcting it on a comment about interactions with ESL speakers :)
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- teddyh 6y agoI judge the video not by the enthusiasm of the people involved, but by the actual contents of the video. You know what is an important workplace skill (tech or not)? Speaking intelligibly. Some people seem to think that all criticism of accents is bad, because racism. This is actually backwards. I myself am an ESL speaker, and therefore have some trouble understanding heavy accents. Using people with heavy accents in a video instead excludes people who speak English as a second language, since we, as a group, are not trained in it. Our experience of spoken English have mainly come from TV and movies, where people speak clearly. So when we see something like this video, we are effectively excluded from understanding it. Saying things like “was it really that hard” is condescending. Yes, it’s hard if you don’t have a lifetime of training, which people in English-speaking countries do. We ESL speakers don’t. Producers of videos should be more considerate.