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% egrep '^p.*orn$' /usr/dict/words
I think you mean /usr/share/dict/words.
Some distros store the words file in /usr/dict/words. Debian (and ubuntu) uses /usr/share/dict/words
How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C
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#52Strange how 3/4 of the comments are more concerned with the title link, instead of the actual content. Very nice post, was an interesting read!
To be fair I clicked on the article and immediately came back to the comments expecting the absolutely inevitable sprawl of comments about the title edit. :P
So not strange, methinks. :P
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#53If you're going to change the title, at least add NSFW to it...
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#54Is there an open source project that accomplishes something similar?
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#55Is this similar to what Wowza (wowzamedia.com) does?
In terms of licensing, it is $55/mo/instance or $995 for a one-time license.
There are also EC2 instances that start at 15 cents per hour.
Much less expensive than FMS
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Thanks. This is the only article on the blog? I was actually intrigued by the site and was wondering if anyone on HN has used this service as a dev or a client....
OP here, and Director of Community at Toptal. This is the first live article, but we've got loads more in progress covering a bunch of different projects and technologies.
Ballsy to lead with an article about porn. I'm glad you did because I know they must face scaling challenges that only a handful of services have to deal with, but rarely do I see articles about how they overcome the challenges. Thanks.
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#57I 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.
Oh, please. The article uses the word porn exactly three times in the introductory paragraphs. Four if you count the title.
The comments here have double that, including your own use. If you were genuinely that paranoid about being "logged" for having visited a page that used the word porn (really?!) I doubt you'd be using it yourself.
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#58>The aggregated bandwidth of the clusters was around 50 Gbps, from which they used around 10 Gbps while at peak load. Now that is a lot a porn. Also, the illustrations look really good! How did you make them?
Very glad you like those illustrations, first we have created couple of the sketches on the paper and then recreated that in the Photoshop.
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#59The network graphics are pretty sharp, anybody familiar with where they came from? Or, are they custom?
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#60I 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…
>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.
If you get heat about things like that in your workplace, then run, don't walk.