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James Seibel
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James Seibel's personal blog at jamesseibel.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The 'Story of Mel' Explained”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link James Seibel's posts explaining Ed Nather's "The Story of Mel", a classic programming story, with background for modern readers and a version combining annotations with the text.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The 'Story of Mel' Explained7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-09-27
What Hacker News says?
The Story of Mel, explained: https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/ Great addition to the original story, as there's lots of background required for modern readers.
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on “The Story of Mel (1983)”Submitted The Story of Mel Explained as a story · 68 points
HN discussionThis version combines the annotations and the text: https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/
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on “The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)”Submitted Good engineering design decisions for startup companies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe story of Mel explained (2015): https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/
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on “Who was Aleph Null? (2013)”Submitted The 'Story of Mel' Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStory needs a link to "The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer" by Ed Nather ( nather@utastro.as.utexas.edu ) Mel is the Gilgamesh of programmers. https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/P... Here are some links to stories about The Story of Mel. Original is on usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/
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on “What Modern Humans Can Learn from Ancient Software”Submitted The 'Story of Mel' Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also: The 'Story of Mel' Explained https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel
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on “The Story of Mel (1983)”Submitted The story of Mel, the real programmer, explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Story of Mel' Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Succeeding at Personal Programming Projects as a story · 1 points
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