Thread: Why Eager Languages Don't Have Products and Lazy Languages Don't Have Sums

Why Eager Languages Don't Have Products and Lazy Languages Don't Have Sums (james-iry.blogspot.com)

L 20 pts 1 comments by df Apr 29, 2021 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

Why eager languages don't have products and lazy languages don't have sums (james-iry.blogspot.com)

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Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t. (slate.com)

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Why Don't More Languages Offer Flow Typing? (ayazhafiz.com)

L 20 pts 6 comments by Hail_Spacecake Apr 6, 2022 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

Why do (or don't) languages forbid unreachable code? (langdev.stackexchange.com)

L 8 pts 6 comments by azeemba Mar 29, 2024 plt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

Does anybody know why transactions don't include metadata about the products bought?

~ 19 pts 9 comments by unknown Jul 6, 2024 ~finance Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why don't languages or IDEs support attaching descriptive metadata to variables? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

HN 4 pts 2 comments by azeemba Aug 12, 2024 thread

Why don't programming languages or IDEs support attaching descriptive metadata to variables? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

L 19 pts 34 comments by azeemba Aug 12, 2024 pltprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

Ask HN: Why don't sci-fi interfaces ever turn into real products?

HN 2 pts 5 comments by krschacht Jan 5, 2026 thread

Is there a good reason why the UI we see in sci-fi don't make it into actual products?<p>Maybe there is some true limitation inherent in this style UI which causes them to stay as mere experiments / novelty?<p>I'm thinking about demos like this which I've seen go by HN over the y...

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NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files (theguardian.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by bobbywilson0 Aug 20, 2013 news Internet / Digital Culture thread

The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science, but unfortunately we don’t know why (extremetech.com)

L 10 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Oct 26, 2013 science Science / Math / Physics thread

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Why Python is eating other languages' lunch in scientific computing (r-bloggers.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by michaelochurch Jan 10, 2014 python Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics thread

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L 10 pts 9 comments by zhemao Feb 11, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Fogbeam Labs: Why We Don't Want To Be "The Next Red Hat" (fogbeam.blogspot.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by mindcrime Mar 8, 2014 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

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L 3 pts 0 comments by b20n Jun 6, 2014 pdfscaling Productivity / Career / Business thread

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L -7 pts 2 comments by lazyatom Jun 24, 2014 culturepractices Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why JavaScript Programmers Hate You: an ode to dynamic languages, Jan Vitek - YouTube (youtube.com)

L 5 pts 1 comments by jamesjporter Jul 6, 2014 programmingvideo Web Development Programming (General) thread

I thoroughly enjoyed this talk and thought it would be nice to share. The bit that starts around 7:45 where he talks about the "clash of worldviews" between computer scientists and domain scientists is particularly great; I've been trying to articulate that basic idea for a year and failing. T...

Why are some languages adopted and others aren’t? (pl-enthusiast.net)

L 6 pts 0 comments by nikola Jul 14, 2014 compsciculture Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why No One Uses Functional Languages (1998) (ugcs.caltech.edu)

L 5 pts 3 comments by pushcx Jul 25, 2014 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why many programmers don’t bother joining the ACM (itworld.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by pushcx Jul 31, 2014 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified (blogs.hbr.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Aug 25, 2014 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Bayes' rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don't work (2007) (randomhacks.net)

L 14 pts 0 comments by pushcx Dec 1, 2014 haskellmath Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics thread

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L 1 pts 0 comments by GeoffWozniak Dec 21, 2014 securityvideo Security / Privacy thread

A good analysis and there are some very good questions at the end.

Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency (lucumr.pocoo.org)

L 30 pts 13 comments by arcatan Feb 17, 2015 vcs Programming (General) thread