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I feel that it is more a crack than a hack. :-)
by timothychung 17y ago
I feel that it is more a crack than a hack. :-)
- timothychung 17y agoI just think a hack is an improvement to anything while the action in the post is just ruining the online voting system. A hack would be to let the TIME web team to know the details of the crack and the solution to fix it. Cheers. :-)
- jcl 17y agoClassically, a subset of "hacks" are pranks, which are relatively-but-not-totally harmless (someone had to take down that car): http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html In the grand scheme of things, the ranking of TIME's list is relatively unimportant. I believe this is only the second time they've done a ranking poll, and it was effectively gamed last time as well (by a much larger group of people, though: Stephen Colbert fans and Rain fans).
- timothychung 17y agoThanks for letting me to understand more about the definition of "hack". I assume that a hack is the product from a hacker and I get my definition of hacker from the article "How to Become a Hacker" by Eric Steven Raymond. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
- sho 17y agoIt's a hack to me, and a pretty cool one. They wanted something done, they found a novel way of doing it. Probably taught themselves some valuable skills in the process. Learn by doing. Get things done, one way or the other. The very essence of hacking!
- mbrubeck 17y agoIt's certainly a hack in the traditional MIT sense: http://hacks.mit.edu/ http://hacks.mit.edu/