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New comment by polygot in "Monads in C# (Part 2): Result"

polygot — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:02:15 +0000

Hi, author here. Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look at the article tonight and go through the comments and update the post based on the comments.

New comment by polygot in "Monads in C# (Part 2): Result"

polygot — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:18:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Appreciate the OSS work. Is it ok if I reference that repo in my article?

Monads in C# (Part 2): Result

polygot — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:45:02 +0000

Article URL: https://alexyorke.github.io/2025/09/13/monads-in-c-sharp-part-2-result/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456787

Points: 56

# Comments: 71

New comment by polygot in "Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern"

polygot — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:19:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/eR3gp

New comment by polygot in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

polygot — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:35:18 +0000

It’s much more difficult to tell if someone bypassed the lock if they picked it (and relocked it), as opposed to cutting it off completely

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

polygot — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:39:50 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I'll likely be editing part 1 to include the feedback so far from the commenters as well. If there's a specific statement or analogy that felt especially confusing, please point it out and I'll clarify it in the post.

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

polygot — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:30:52 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I totally agree that monads are not containers. From an OOP perspective, they have some properties that make them, in some sense, sorta like containers, e.g., they contain a value like the Maybe monad. I still agree that they are not simply containers. I can clarify this in a revision to part 1 soon.

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

polygot — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:24:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I didn't expect my post to garner a lot of attention. I am totally ok with rewriting part 1, potentially to make it more concise to prevent confusion (wow, this post is super long, monads must be complex!) is what I'd like to avoid.

I can reproduce the double line issue in part 2, this was my mistake and I missed it as part of my editing process. I'll delete part 2 while I make the corrections.

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

polygot — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:16:26 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I can definitely rename the post soon as a first step, although this may require rewriting a chunk of the article to more accurately reflect the fact that List is a monad, and not "a" list.

I could make this distinction in part 3 (not written yet) although I want to balance not misleading readers, but not overcomplicating it too early on.

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

polygot — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:11:49 +0000

Hi, I completely agree. "A" list isn't inherently a monad, and that is where my metaphor starts to fall apart a bit (my post title furthers this issue.)

I can clarify this earlier in part 1 or 2 instead of in to-be-written part 3.

List is a monad

polygot — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://alexyorke.github.io//2025/06/29/a-list-is-a-monad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414965

Points: 157

# Comments: 179

New comment by polygot in "WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator"

polygot — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:47:30 +0000

Not sure how they're going to go around that corner with that vehicle

New comment by polygot in "I assume I'm below average (2010)"

polygot — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:13:51 +0000

If we have these test scores: 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, the mean is 0.8 and thus 80% are above average.

New comment by polygot in "Good Writing"

polygot — Sun, 25 May 2025 03:09:53 +0000

If someone wants to find the original quote, https://salvatoreloleggio.blogspot.com/2014/10/borges-dove-i... says, translated:

> One part of that part was published as a preview in a "Domenica" of "Il sole 24 ore".

Perhaps it is in the June 21 2009 issue.

New comment by polygot in "Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors"

polygot — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:27:37 +0000

> provide a JSON schema

Is this when using structured outputs?

New comment by polygot in "Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made"

polygot — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:36:15 +0000

Title is slightly misleading, it is not leaving behind 486 types of CPUs individually, but the "486 CPU".

New comment by polygot in "Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers"

polygot — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 06:34:15 +0000

I decided to do that, and made Paper2Code2Code: https://github.com/alexyorke/Paper2Code2Code/tree/main

New comment by polygot in "A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed"

polygot — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:12:29 +0000

Reminds me of the JetBrains installer--not a bad reminder, I like the animations.

New comment by polygot in "When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe"

polygot — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:24:20 +0000

I also wonder if "Kitty Litter/Zeolite" was read without context in the white-paper, i.e., any type of kitty litter rather than specifically the inorganic kind.

Hacker News: polygot

New comment by polygot in "Monads in C# (Part 2): Result"

New comment by polygot in "Monads in C# (Part 2): Result"

Monads in C# (Part 2): Result

New comment by polygot in "Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern"

New comment by polygot in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

New comment by polygot in "A list is a monad"

List is a monad

New comment by polygot in "WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator"

New comment by polygot in "I assume I'm below average (2010)"

New comment by polygot in "Good Writing"

New comment by polygot in "Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors"

New comment by polygot in "Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made"

New comment by polygot in "Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers"

New comment by polygot in "A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed"

New comment by polygot in "When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe"

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