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Personal blog · fendrich.se/blogprogramming

IFHO is a personal blog at fendrich.se about programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Compile Time Loops in C++11 With Trampolines and Exponential Recursion”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
7HN people?
2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter quotes two IFHO posts, one on a skeptical atheist's pre-programming mental state and one on a better Soylent, in a thread about the Glow language. The quotes are cited as sources, with no judgement of the writing.

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.

Programming is complicated. Different programs have different abstraction levels, domains, platforms, longevity, team sizes, etc ad infinitum. There …

Most-linked posts?

  1. Compile Time Loops in C++11 With Trampolines and Exponential Recursion
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-23
  2. A Better Soylent - Designing a Simple, "Optimal" Nutrition Shake
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-11
  3. Use Zsh
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Going to try to address the whole problem here, not just the trying to invent a new language: from: http://fendrich.se/blog/2013/01/24/pre-programming-mental-si... > I am, in fact, a grumpy, skeptical, philosophically materialist atheist. from: http://fendrich.se/blog/2013/04/09/a-better-soylent-good/ > Adding nootropics and stimulants, like the original Soylent guy did, is also interesting. However, to avoid compli…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/09/a-better-soylent-good/

    on “Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language”
  2. Submitted C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python as a story · 201 points

    HN discussion
  3. I recently wrote a guide on this, too: http://fendrich.se/blog/2013/01/24/pre-programming-mental-si...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/01/24/pre-programming-mental-silence-meditation-with-entrainment/

    on “Hackers Guide to Beginning Meditation”
  4. Submitted Use Zsh as a story · 164 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Compile Time Loops in C++11 With Trampolines and Exponential Recursion as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A better algorithm for rotating logs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Pre-programming Mental Silence Meditation With Entrainment as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Compile Time Loops in C++11 With Trampolines and Exponential Recursion as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Compression, Prediction And Artificial Intelligence (2010) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Compression, Prediction, And Artificial Intelligence (2010) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Compile Time Loops in C++11 with Trampolines and Exponential Recursion as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted No, Really. Use Zsh. (2012) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A Better Soylent - Designing a Simple, "Optimal" Nutrition Shake as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted A better algorithm for backups and rolling logs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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