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How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by vsh »

niggler wrote: post #14
vsh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course because of snobbery. NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn".

"NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn"." popcorn? preworn?

Grey Worm. From Unsullied.

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by danso »

I sympathize with why the mods changed the title from "Porn" to "Video", but now you've made it so that HN users are unwittingly clicking into an article that talks about porn, in such a way that could be detected by a workplace firewall. That's not an ideal usability decision. Why not use good ol square brackets to maintain the integrity of the title:

How I Made [Porn] Video Streaming 20x More Efficient with Python and C

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by mseebach »

niggler wrote: post #11
kbenson wrote: post #3

I love reading articles about technical issues and solutions in the Porn industry. It's like getting a peek inside a youtube scale company as they grow.

Are any of the porn sites larger than youtube?

The question isn't unambigiously answered, but there's a top of good stuff here (first link in the article):

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are...

"In short, porn sites cope with astronomical amounts of data. The only sites that really come close in term of raw bandwidth are YouTube or Hulu, but even then YouPorn is something like six times larger than Hulu."

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by hackerboos »

i5rider wrote: post #15

Great work. I worked with RTMP for some time and I recall the pain to reverse-engineer their protocol. One other comment, maybe the title should be more like: "How I improved a slow/inefficient RTMP video streaming service by 20x". Just a thought.

Would he get the same CTR if he changed the title?

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by hardik988 »

I appreciate the effort the mods take in curating titles, I really do - but please spare articles like this at least?

I clicked on this link at work (part-time at grad-school) and now I have a "how to run a pornographic website faster" link logged in my name.

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by edmond_dantes »

vsh wrote: post #6
toptal wrote: post #4

Hey this is awesome! Though the admin/moderator changed the title for some unknown reason from the title of the blogpost to their own.

Of course because of snobbery. NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn".

"Porno" sounds so much worse.

Re: How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

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Post by FiloSottile »

danso wrote: post #23

I sympathize with why the mods changed the title from "Porn" to "Video", but now you've made it so that HN users are unwittingly clicking into an article that talks about porn, in such a way that could be detected by a workplace firewall. That's not an ideal usability decision. Why not use good ol square brackets to maintain the integrity of the title: How I Made [Porn] Video Streaming 20x More Efficient with Python…

Or the other way around

How I Made Porn [Video Streaming] 20x More Efficient with Python

as technically the editor notes are bracketed.

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