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At least for chess the article mentions that they considered the top 10 players in children and senior categories. This would indicate that prodigy chess players are millions of ti…

I notice more and more pushes to 'improve' C and turn it into something it should not become. I feel like the C++ community gave up on C++ because of the growing complexity and so …

I often wondered if Patrick uses unnecessarily convoluted sentences, or if he is simply careful about using the proper terminology, and my English is just not good enough to follow…

I wrote this in go and it made the front hackernews page at the time: https://plaintextco.in This was my first time using go and I found the language very handy for this kind of pr…

My original tweet had a typo (their -> there) :( I deleted it and reposted it without the mistake. Sorry for this duplicate.

Yes, since I got too many requests from HN, I had to enable the CDN. I didn't realize it would cache both html and terminal request together. I tried setting "Vary: User-Agent" but…

You are probably right. I should also probably add a link to a 'true' plain text version that returns a pure txt.

Not at the moment, this was a week end project, and the code is quite horrible. But yes I should probably put it online and get advise.

Actually it also supports a black and white mode using only utf8 characters. I haven't exposed it yet though.

It's all done by hand in go. Yes it uses the user agent to guess if the request comes from a terminal.

Well, I should have tested a bit more before posting.

Back online for now... please be gentle ;)

I think the server code has a concurrent access bug that makes it crash in the middle of a request. Unfortunately due to the current charge I can't even restart it at the moment.

Yeah the server is not handling the load at the moment... I am trying to restart it.