Challenge: Find Twitter memes with suffix arrays

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The article starts with "a short series of programming challenge I’m writing with Julian". What is a "Julian" in this context? I thought it meant "Julia", the programming language, but then I see that her solution is in fact in Go.

Julian is the person she is collaborating with. If you follow the link after that sentence there is a link to his blog.

Oh, thanks, that makes sense. I feel stupid now :)

This seems like a really interesting post, but the text width is just 22.4% of `<body>` width... sure I can zoom in, but then the font is obnoxiously large.

It seems like maybe it's a mobile theme being misapplied to a desktop user agent? FF 71 on macOS.

edit: `#wrap { max-width: 45em; }` is the culprit. If I remove that the un-maxed `width: 70%;` is much better.

It seems like she's just maxing out the width at what's commonly considered the most readable line length (~80 characters). Not sure what the problem is with that.

It's great in my terminal editor. How many people use a browser at that width? If they do, guess what, it works anyway because it's a relative width. Why force (such a small) maximum?

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