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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 SilasX »

_delirium wrote: post #77
coldtea wrote: post #64

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.…

>A few require you to hand over your Facebook passwords (!) to the boss

That was a poorly-source, probably-made-up story that now one could verify yet quickly became accepted truth. (Unless it's meant to refer to cases involving heavy security clearances, in which cases it's ho-hum)

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

#92

Post by Myrmornis »

_delirium wrote: post #77
coldtea wrote: post #64

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.…

It's easy to avoid.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

_delirium wrote: post #77
coldtea wrote: post #64

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.…

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

#94

Post by Myrmornis »

jneal wrote: post #42

I know others already said this, but I clicked on this link from work and immediately became appalled when realizing it was about porn and quickly backed out. I'd gladly read this from the comfort of my own home and I'm sure the content itself is SFW but still the point is I was mislead. Can we please [mods] not change titles in cases like this?

Don't understand. You can browse articles for leisure at work. So what was the problem with this article?

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

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Post by toptalgergely »

MBCook wrote: post #89
toptalgergely wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, not IP multicast. Imagine it as a web server that serves FLV files which always start at the current stream position. This is what it did. Actually bringing up the proxy issue is interesting. I'm not sure if it does. Essentially forbidding all caching would make it play nice.

Isn't that pretty close to how HTTP Live Streaming works?

You mean the apple protocol? Not sure, but I looked at that when I designed it. What I did was just the most intuitive

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

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Post by rorrr2 »

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?

No way. One year ago Youtube users uploaded an hour of video every second.

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

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Post by toptal »

elbear wrote: post #75
jeremyx wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey Elbear, that's not in our contracts, at all. We do make sure our developers communicate within 10 hours regardless of the timezone. We feel that is more than reasonable and it's worked extremely well for Toptal. However, that's not in our contract, it's actually something we simply stay on top of as a company. Our requirements are not "weird" at all, they enforce high integrity, and in most places in the world, the concept of high integrity is "weird". The type of people who will not conform to such standards are precisely the types of individuals who we would never want to work with in a million years, and that is precisely why freelancing platforms have such a pervasively bad reputation.. because they're filled with low or even medium integrity individuals. To us, that's unacceptable. As it is to any A-player team. -Taso, CEO, Toptal

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

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Post by saurabhnanda »

coldtea wrote: post #82
danso wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when did workplaces become bastions of principles, rather than bureaucracies that have a business to run and have to, at some level, apply policies that suspend an employee's worktime freedom as part of the agreement that involves paying that employee's salary? I work at a small company where no one would care. They also don't care if I spend time on Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc. But not everyone is in a company…

> Since when did workplaces become bastions of principles, rather than bureaucracies that have a business to run and have to, at some level, apply policies that suspend an employee's worktime freedom as part of the agreement that involves paying that employee's salary? Since people let them get away with it. The "agreement that involves paying that employee's salary" does not meant they should get away with treating…

I wish I could up-vote this multiple times.

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

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Post by analog »

toptal wrote: post #98
elbear wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey Elbear, that's not in our contracts, at all. We do make sure our developers communicate within 10 hours regardless of the timezone. We feel that is more than reasonable and it's worked extremely well for Toptal. However, that's not in our contract, it's actually something we simply stay on top of as a company. Our requirements are not "weird" at all, they enforce high integrity, and in most places in the world, t…

Doesn't this mean that your employees are expected to be on call for 14 hours per day though?
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