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Artem Russakovskii
Personal blog · beerpla.net · on HN as archon810programmingweb
Artem Russakovskii's personal blog at beerpla.net covers programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on H.264 versus Theora, YouTube's video storage and Goldman Sachs data volumes, as a source for scale figures. The URL slug is 'how-to-find-out-the-number-of-...'; comments only link it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-videos-on-youtube/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
What Hacker News says?
And what if you have around 8 petabytes of video ( http://beerpla.net/2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-... ) in H.264? What would you do, double your storage? How long would that take to re-encode anyways. The reason why Youtube is using H.264 instead of Theora is because they already have the videos in that format.
Comment linking /2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-videos-on-youtube/
on “No, you can't do that with H.264”Submitted Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of as a story · 126 points
HN discussion> Goldman Sachs alone stores more data than the entire web Why would you believe that Goldman Sachs stores more data than can be reached by HTTP?! Only YouTube amounts to petabytes of data. http://beerpla.net/2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-...
Comment linking /2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-videos-on-youtube/
on “Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?”Submitted Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard as a story · 65 points
HN discussionThis is almost as bad as the reason for my server's downtime recently: http://beerpla.net/wp-content/uploads/img_2958.JPG My server literally had its plug pulled.
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on “Cause of YC/HN outage discovered”Submitted How Not To Implement A Web Application That Handles External Authentication as a story · 40 points
HN discussionIf you're going to look at Sphinx, you'd do yourself a disservice by not also looking at Solr. Solr has effectively the same feature set, including geospatial and multilingual searching, but it has better relevance, and generally is faster at returning query results (although Sphinx is faster at doing full reindexes). Also, unlike Sphinx, Solr doesn't glue you to MySQL. Or to any SQL database; use it with Cassandra,…
Comment linking /2009/09/03/comparison-between-solr-and-sphinx-search-servers-solr-vs-sphinx-fight/
on “A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis”Submitted Hidden Features Of Perl, PHP, Javascript, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Others as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI may have a link in there, but it's a legit post made from my heart. For what it's worth, here's a review I've done 3 years ago of the SuperFi 5, which is a step down from these: http://beerpla.net/2006/09/18/review-of-ultimate-ears-superf... . I've listened to TripleFi 10 too and they're even more amazing, if that was even possible. Fatwallet has a discussion on these with a very green rating for those in doubt ab…
Comment linking /2006/09/18/review-of-ultimate-ears-superfi-5-pro-earphones/
on “Deal of the century - Amazon drops Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 to $99 (from $400)”Submitted Make Firebug's JavaScript debugger break inside dynamic JavaScript as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hadoop Primer – Yet Another Hadoop Introduction as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building The Perfect HTPC (Media PC), Capable Of Playing 1080P H264 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 inspirational and original comment form designs for your blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wordpress dev tutorial - how to properly include CSS and JS conditionally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The geek's way of finding wallpapers that fit your screen resolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most useless Tweet to date discovered as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here's A Greasemonkey Script To Keep Track Of Your StackOverflow/SU/SF Accounts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supercharge Your GNU Screen With A Power "Taskbar" And Never Feel Lost Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastering The Linux Shell - Bash Shortcuts Explained (Now With Cheat Sheets) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VPN tip: make Windows use LAN directly for requests that don't need VPN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Retweet button that lets you add comments before retweeting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meet Firefox For Mobile [Video + Feature Highlights + More Info] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MySQL Slave Delay Explained And 7 Ways To Battle It as a story · 1 points
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