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John Topley
Personal blog · johntopley.comprogrammingwebproductivity
John Topley's personal blog at johntopley.com covers programming, web and productivity. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on microchips and computing history. One commenter cites its VisiCalc example, a tiny spreadsheet program with a small memory footprint, as their favourite.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
My favorite 'so little ram' example : visicalc "The first thing that strikes you about VisiCalc is its size, or rather, lack of it. You get a 27,520 byte MS-DOS executable (actually a .COM file) and nothing else. No installer, no uninstaller, no DLLs, just a fully functional, no frills spreadsheet program. Run it from your hard drive, run it from a floppy or run it from a USB key ring if you like; this thing is tiny…
Comment linking /2004/05/01/software-review-visicalc/
on “Microchips That Shook the World”Submitted Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Craftsmanship And Apprenticeship Patterns as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write A Web App In Nine Lines Of Code (Ruby + Sinatra) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create a Sitemap for your Rails Application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obituary: The File System 1973—2011 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Of Twitter 2009 as a story · 1 points
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