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Since I know how to explain how little that means, I don't care what links they see me go to. If I have a work-related reason to look at something then I do, simple as that, and when your job is to engineer, almost any instance of satisfying curiosity is work related ultimately.


Saving this for when I eventually get pulled into HR. “Yes I was on PornHub, but was only looking at it for the UX inspiration”.


"I was admiring the quality of their HTML5 video player"

Which reminds me of when YouTube spent forever with a broken beta HTML5 player, spending 5+ yrs building something that porn sites did immediately.


... and its still better at original, or so my friends tend to say


Isn't the "preview" function in timeline ripped straight off porno sites too ?


I mean, I'm pretty sure DVD players had it when FF/Rewinding first.


Older even! The industry term is "trick play" or "trick mode", although I'm not sure where the name comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_mode


Porn sites have some of the best and some of the worst coding. Both are very useful to study.


I remember that PornHub had for a brief moment in 2022 a PHP issue in the production site -- every comment was rendered with a closing PHP tag somewhere in it's content to the client (?>).


This is legitimate




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