[latchkey]

F' that. I worked for Kink.com (NSFW) (as a software engineer) and I'm proud of it. I got experience building cutting edge, high demand systems and services that I wouldn't have gotten elsewhere. We did realtime 1080p streaming video before anyone else and a full micro currency (Kinks). I even built a whole ad serving system that served banners from sites like PornHub (so I got a taste of the traffic levels they had).

If that held me back from getting a job at some puritanical company, so be it. I wouldn't have wanted to work there any way.

[dymk]

The CEO sent him a written apology. I wouldn't call that a puritanical company.

All it takes is one person in the critical path to not like what you're doing, even if 99% of the rest don't give a shit, and that's a potential job off the table.

You're proud of your work, that's great, but also doesn't change the fact that your work also puts you at risk of having your resume tossed for a dumb reason.

[latchkey]

My use of the word is a generalization, sorry that wasn't clear.

Agreed, your resume could be tossed for anything. US has some protections for this. Other countries don't have this at all. You don't take a job with a porn company without realizing that. It definitely made hiring more difficult as well.

While working there, we lost access to our web analytics tool because they got bought by a Mormon company that booted us. Endless issues with credit card processors. We also had to host our own server hardware because at the time, porn wasn't allowed on many hosting services and/or we were fearful of being booted from other cloud providers.

That's also what attracted me to my current business venture, which is to provide decentralized cloud infrastructure services (aka: web3). It seems weird to think of that being decentralized, but if we don't know the specifics of what you're running on our hardware, there is nothing for us to turn off. Based on my history, I see a lot of value in that.

[ksec]

Love to hear more about it. We have often been told porn are one of the largest internet video category. Even before the Internet, pornography decided the war on DVD or Blu-Ray. Or at least that is what I have been told, never fact checked on any of these.

And there are so many tech on these system I wish I could read more about it. And yet we dont. There could be loads of things that could be open sourced too. Or do we live in a world where an open source component from a porn company are not good enough to use. ( I would not be surprised if that is case right now in Silicon Valley ). And yet we are happy to read technology being used in warfares?

I would imagine you have lots of restrictions and barrier in your work, from hosting to payment or whatever. It will be interesting to see how those are worked out.

Oh but please post it in a separate blogging platform so we can all enjoy it during work hours.

[stickfigure]

Some years ago I wrote up some of my stories from Kink.com on Quora:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-work-on-the-develop...

(I hired @latchkey, though he stayed a few years longer than I did)

[latchkey]

Thanks @stickfigure. I stayed for 4.

[takeda]

> Even before the Internet, pornography decided the war on DVD or Blu-Ray. Or at least that is what I have been told, never fact checked on any of these.

Beta vs VHS.

DVD did not compete against BluRay, they are two different generations. BluRay competed against HD-DVD. From what I remember technically HD-DVD was superior, BluRay won because it had extra copy protection mechanism the HD-DVD lacked.

[mdasen]

HD-DVD was inferior. BluRay could do 25GB per layer while HD-DVD could only do 15GB.

The major factor was that Sony shipped a BluRay player in the PlayStation 3. When HD-DVD was discontinued, Sony had sold 10.5M PlayStation 3 units while there were only 1M HD-DVD units. Sony spent a lot of money subsidizing the PS3 and its BluRay player, but a 10:1 ratio of PS3s to HD-DVD players won the market (and all the standalone BluRay players just made the ratio worse).

As the PS3 sold, rental chains like Blockbuster decided to go with BluRay exclusively - and at the time Blockbuster was the largest rental chain and really powerful. Netflix also moved exclusively to BluRay. As the PS3 sold, Target decided to move exclusively to BluRay. Once the PS3 had started selling way more units than all HD-DVD players combined, everyone started moving away from HD-DVD which just reinforced its decline.

BluRay won because Sony was willing to suffer pretty big losses on PS3 sales to push the format.