If you’ve ever worked with other people on some piece of code or program, particularly over IRC or IM or some other form of real-time or fast text communication, chances are you’ve used one of the many “paste” sites available (my personal favorite is pastie). These sites offer a convenient way of sending small to medium chunks of text to other people quickly, by simply copyng and pasting the text into a web form. This is a lot better than the old way of having to send an e-mail attachment, spam an IRC channel, or upload the text to some web host, but as I used pastie more and more often I started to realize that it could be made even faster.
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