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At the risk of sounding stupid, can someone explain to me exactly what "meta" in this context means?
by evdawg 18y ago
At the risk of sounding stupid, can someone explain to me exactly what "meta" in this context means?
- lucastx 18y agoTalking about Hacker News... about the website, about social media etc.
- kirubakaran 18y ago'Meta' because instead of just hacker news, we have news about hacker news. (from metadata)
- jfarmer 18y agoAnd this is news about news about hacker news. Error: Stack level too deep.
- mdakin 18y agoThe general rule for "meta" is: "meta-X" → "X about X." Examples: "meta-data" → "data about data", "meta-language" → "language about language", "meta-vanity" → "vanity about vanity" (a concept explored by the late DFW though he termed it "second-order vanity"), etc.