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What was funny is that the go binary was written as a better replacement for a Python tool (fortunately, most deployments were on civilian OSes.)
https://archive.is/ty7Yu
archive.is is nice, but the Wayback Machine makes URLs which are a lot more transparent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9718625
Note how the year selector on the right of "Contribution activity" is broken - seems it can't fit 1970-2019. Same happens with Ken Thompson's profile.
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