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Hack

• calciphus 14y ago
  To be fair, I love and adore hacker culture. However "hack" and "hacker" have already become so inundated with misuse as to be nearly meaningless. "Growth hacker" "hack the <blank> industry" recruitment letters, etc.
• farinasa 14y ago
  Hack is often used in the sense: Well it wasn't intended to work that way, but it does, it's a workaround, or "hack".
  • Ao7bei3s 14y ago
    Yes, but that's probably not what calciphus meant: the problem is that now apparently anyone doing a startup creating some random web application (using their tools pretty much exactly as intended) or whatever and making (or dreaming of making, anyway) lots of money qualifies as a "hacker". So sad that it's been commercialized like this. Just look at "Hacker" News. Thats not hacker news, that's YC marketing.