I feel like the philosophy tag is being used as a catch-all for anything non-technical. In my opinion, this article isn’t really saying anything useful and is just more background noise that the author is complaining about.
This thread seems to be getting pretty meta, but maybe the solutions is to destroy the philosophy tag and replace it with epistemology, ethics, logic, etc. Philosophy can feel like a catch-all term for “thinking about life, or how to go about it” but it seems harder to really run into that problem with more specific branches of philosophy.
Timely article, as lately I feel I am drowning in my rss feeds — never catching up and lots of things just getting pitched into a ‘read later’ bucket that never actually gets touched. Time to prune some of the feeds again I guess.
Aside: “Hacker News Monthly”, referenced in the article, looked appealing. However, the requirement to create a paypal account (I assume for subscription/rebilling) was not something I was interested in doing, and I ended up not subscribing instead.
I feel like the philosophy tag is being used as a catch-all for anything non-technical. In my opinion, this article isn’t really saying anything useful and is just more background noise that the author is complaining about.
Yeah. :( I’ve been trying to post actual philosophy articles, but a lot of it is crap.
This thread seems to be getting pretty meta, but maybe the solutions is to destroy the philosophy tag and replace it with epistemology, ethics, logic, etc. Philosophy can feel like a catch-all term for “thinking about life, or how to go about it” but it seems harder to really run into that problem with more specific branches of philosophy.
http://www.reddit.com/r/stonerphilosophy/, heh.
Seems like this could also be filed under the meta tag. I see this as basically being a lot of the point behind lobsters.
Timely article, as lately I feel I am drowning in my rss feeds — never catching up and lots of things just getting pitched into a ‘read later’ bucket that never actually gets touched. Time to prune some of the feeds again I guess.
Aside: “Hacker News Monthly”, referenced in the article, looked appealing. However, the requirement to create a paypal account (I assume for subscription/rebilling) was not something I was interested in doing, and I ended up not subscribing instead.