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Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that does
by warent 5y ago
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking.
They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.
- shultays 5y agoDoes anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning? For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password. For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or design constraints I don't think anyone other than HN using "hacker" in the way it mean to be, perhaps it is time to catch up with the time
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- atherton33 5y agoLiterally everyone who uses the word "lifehack"
- fzzzy 5y agoGrowth hacking
- herbst 5y agoTo be fair, thanks to lifehacks, growth hacks and whatever it seems hack slowly fades back into the original meaning. At least from my POV
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