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No TV and No Beer
Personal blog · mikelui.ioprogramming
No TV and No Beer is a personal blog at mikelui.io about programming. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Initialization in C++ is seriously bonkers”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link mikelui.io for its C++ humour, especially the initialization-forest meme and the 'seriously-bonkers' post on the many ways to initialize a variable in C++.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Experiences in the digital world and sometimes the real world, too
Most-linked posts?
- Initialization in C++ is seriously bonkers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-18
- /img/c++_init_forest.gif3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-12
- Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-05
- C++ Initialization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Always obligatory https://mikelui.io/img/c++_init_forest.gif
Comment linking /img/c++_init_forest.gif
on “I have no constructor, and I must initialize”Submitted Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers as a story · 166 points
HN discussionhttp://mikelui.io/img/c++_init_forest.gif
Comment linking /img/c++_init_forest.gif
on “Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems”Submitted Initialization in C++ is seriously bonkers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a good article but it only scratches the surface, as is always the case when it comes to C++. When I made a meme about C++ [1] I was purposeful in choosing the iceberg format. To me it's not quite satisfying to say that C++ is merely complex or vast. A more fitting word would be "arcane", "monumental" or "titanic" (get it?). There's a specific feeling you get when you're trying to understand what the hell is…
Comment linking /img/c++_init_forest.gif
on “In Defense of C++”Submitted Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers Just Start With C as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOr, how much ways is there to initialize a variable: https://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
Comment linking /2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
on “Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)”Submitted C++ Initialization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor me, that disillusion has been one of several steps. Scott Meyers book was one point. Then I started to learn Clojure, motivated by the idea that we need better concepts for the upcoming massively parallel hardware (a big influence for me was the article "The free lunch is over" by Herb Sutter: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm ). I now think that immutability by default is clearly the better wa…
Comment linking /2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
on “Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?”A nice, related meme: https://mikelui.io/img/c++_init_forest.gif
Comment linking /img/c++_init_forest.gif
on “The case of the vector with an impossibly large size”Please no initialization fiasco from C++ ... http://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
Comment linking /2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
on “C23 Implications for C Libraries”