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Hackernews PSA: Things that are hacking
In no particular order, and varies depending on your religion and the year (especially the first two - many adopt one or the other).
- Writing code
- Exploiting code
- Chopping down trees with a hatchet or axe, using multiple swinging motions (no chainsaws, that is cutting)
Things that are not hacking:
- cooking is not food hacking
- sewing is not textile hacking
- media whoring is not PR hacking
- tying weather balloons to a lawn chair and floating away is not chair hacking
Overloading of the term 'hacking' to make it some generic wildcard verb considered harmful.
Thanks,
Larry
- eof 16y agoCooking perfect eggs by hacking a crock pot to a controlled temp bath is hacking. Dragging a block of ice around with money it to draw abundant attention is hacking. Presumably there are some awesome sewing techniques I am unaware of that I would have no problem calling hacking. More generally hacking is using a fundamental understanding of the underlying processes involved in a system to manipulate the system into doing things it wasn't designed to do.