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…
Why do mods change titles of posts? This is frequently complained about on HN, and seems unfortunate.
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…
Why do mods change titles of posts? This is frequently complained about on HN, and seems unfortunate.
Mostly they make things better, and nobody notices. Sometimes they make things worse, and people complain.
I'm astonished by some of the responses here, that could be summarised thusly: > "I work on workplace, in a modern western society, not some theocratic backwater, that monitors my web activity and would frown if I visited an article with the word porn in it. This on 2013. I find this OK, and won't quit my job or raise hell protesting this degrading treatment, but would rather complain for HN titles" . In an age where…
Where exactly is the link between porn and LGBT rights?
The overall message is stop worrying so much about the locations of other people's genitals.
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....
I was in talks with them as a dev. Their requirements were a bit weird, so that's why I didn't sign a contract in the end. I think there was one requirements which asked that the developer answer the employer's message within a pretty short time frame, not matter the timezone difference.
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…
If your firewall flags up the word "porn", won't it also flag up HN for having "porn" in the title of a listed article?
I'm astonished by some of the responses here, that could be summarised thusly: > "I work on workplace, in a modern western society, not some theocratic backwater, that monitors my web activity and would frown if I visited an article with the word porn in it. This on 2013. I find this OK, and won't quit my job or raise hell protesting this degrading treatment, but would rather complain for HN titles" . In an age where…
Unfortunately, the majority of jobs in the United States are run with this kind of degrading treatment. Many even require you to randomly pee into a cup on short notice, to make sure you didn't do any drugs recently. Some of them also monitor your Facebook accounts (as far as permissions allow) to see what you're up to there. A few require you to hand over your Facebook passwords (!) to the boss to make that easier. The corporate world is weird and scary, but not always easy to avoid.
I'm astonished by some of the responses here, that could be summarised thusly: > "I work on workplace, in a modern western society, not some theocratic backwater, that monitors my web activity and would frown if I visited an article with the word porn in it. This on 2013. I find this OK, and won't quit my job or raise hell protesting this degrading treatment, but would rather complain for HN titles" . In an age where…
> In an age where people fight for LGBT rights, this is what the American workplace has come to?
Yes. With a lack of privacy expectations in 2013, any visited website is permanent added to the record. Even with no paranoia, it does add an unnecessary risk to ones career.
I would rather learn if there was a porn site bigger than Netflix.. as Netflix currently uses around 30% of US bandwith [1] 1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395372,00.asp
Probably. Netflix has the big constraint of availability that only extends to the US. Porn is global. Even though the US has a above-average bandwidth usage (guesstimated) it's still only a small(ish) drop in the global network.
EU traffic in our case about ~1.2x the US traffic.