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This is a hack? Seriously, why don't we as a community distance ourselves from this crap?
by silentbicycle 18y ago
This is a hack? Seriously, why don't we as a community distance ourselves from this crap?
- thaumaturgy 18y agoI hacked my mornings by making sure that the bed gets lots of early sunshine. I hacked my grocery shopping by buying stuff that's on sale. I hack my gas mileage by coasting down hills. (Truck has a clutch.) ...Ugh. I'm getting sick to my stomach just writing this. Every moronic, mundane use of the word diminishes the artistry that it used to represent.
- rsheridan6 18y agoI can see where this will end - "Uh-oh, baby hacked his diaper."
- silentbicycle 18y agoAh, found it: "At this juncture, I wish to apologize and formally atone for any role 43 Folders or I have had in popularizing 'hack' as the preferred nomenclature for unmedicated knowledge workers dicking around with their 'productivity system' all day. 43 Folders regrets the error." - Merlin Mann, "Four Years" (http://www.43folders.com/2008/09/08/four-years http://www.43folders.com/2008/09/08/four-years)