Hacker News? How does a slate.com article like this get on the front page? I've read freshman philosophy papers that were more intellectually engaging than this.
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Intellectual stimulation comes from things other than programming.
Discussing religion (again), why women are cold, what 'adolescence' means, is not hacking IMHO. There is more than enough of that sort of thing elsewhere.
There's an equilibrium here. Some weeks we get lots of programming articles and nothing else. Some weeks we get only Linux articles, or only Google articles. Some weeks we get a lot of "off topic" stuff.
So far things haven't gotten too out-of-hand. I think things are still ticking along pretty nicely.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-i-a...