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You must have missed the memo where now almost anything you do on a computer is hacking. Got a form to submit in Django? I'm hacking. Got nodejs to run a sampl
by nikcub 16y ago
You must have missed the memo where now almost anything you do on a computer is hacking.
Got a form to submit in Django? I'm hacking. Got nodejs to run a sample app? I'm hacking. Integrate a shitty jQuery plugin? I'm hacking. RTFM - nope, hacking.
- leon_ 16y agojust abuse the word. I hate that everything is "hacking" now - so I started overusing the word. whenever I'm doing something I am hacking. (Sometimes it's not limited to computer activities.) I hope other people will will catch on and overuse the word to the point where it's not cool anymore and everything gets back to normal. (and hackernews can be renamed back to webmasternews)
- thaumaturgy 16y agoIronically, you seem to have forgotten that "hack" is also a synonym for "kludge" -- long before programmers started referring to themselves as hackers as a term of pride and endearment, many writers were referred to as "hacks". I don't see any problem with referring to using a documented workaround as a "hack" in that context.
- eli 16y agoBut that's my point -- it's not a hack OR a kludge OR a workaround. It is the straightforward and recommended way of doing something. Twitter didn't kill RSS, they just stopped advertising it to end users.