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Wow, this blows left-pad.io's whole business model. Wonder what they're going to use their VC millions on now?

EDIT: Here's an idea: Monetize your padding by putting ads in it.

Pivot to right-pad.io

I propose center padding. Why does the padding need to be at the end of the word? That's just an artificial limitation imposed by the rent-seeking incumbents in the padding industry.

Middle out padding. It just might work

Deterministic Random Padding is the way of the future: http://play.golang.org/p/m4he0blGL5

Need to make it a package so other code can depend on it though.

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