FARK.com: (7431497) Every minute of the day, users upload an average of 72 hours of footage to YouTube. So, how do they handle it without bogging down and crashing? Here comes the computer science

		Every minute of the day, users upload an average of 72 hours of footage to YouTube. So, how do they handle it without bogging down and crashing? Here comes the computer science (popularmechanics.com)		3
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Victoly		2012-11-13 02:33:54 PM

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The Voice of Doom		2012-11-13 12:40:29 PM

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Well, one part of their solution seems to be to stall playing back videos after about 20 seconds until you reload the page.
I guess they want to make sure that you really want to watch the whole video before sending the remaining data.

gopher321		2012-11-13 08:14:53 AM

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Nothing matches...EVIL CAT.

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