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koweycode
Personal blog · koweycode.blogspot.comprogramming
koweycode is a personal blog at koweycode.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why Darcs users care about consistency in version control systems”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its explanation of monads through an analogy involving a spacesuit, nuclear waste, and apples. It is aimed at readers who already know some monad theory.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why Darcs users care about consistency in version control systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-19
What Hacker News says?
Monads are pretty simple: Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, but the apples are carried around anyway, and you just take what you need. ( http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2007/01/think-of-monad.html ) That explanation is pretty good if you understand monads. Otherwise it…
Comment linking /2007/01/think-of-monad.html
on “Snap: A Haskell Web Framework”Submitted Why Darcs users care about consistency in version control systems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why darcs users care about consistency as a story · 1 points
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