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I 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 te
by timothychung 17y ago
I 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