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I'm afraid the title may scare people off the article. i assure you, "hacking" here is used in the canonical sense: "An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-c
by f2f 13y ago
I'm afraid the title may scare people off the article. i assure you, "hacking" here is used in the canonical sense: "An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed."
- endlessvoid94 13y agoI think the "hacking X for fun and profit" is a pretty well-known trope.
- f2f 13y agoi agree, but the context nowadays is different. you don't often see articles about modifying the binaries of major operating system kernels. what impressed me most is that the hack worked flawlessly on one of my 10.8.5 pre-release kernels even though it had not been tested there yet.
- tonyarkles 13y agoFor me, the origin of this was from "Smashing the stack for fun and profit (1996)"[1], which does actually refer to somewhat malicious purposes. Apparently it has existed in literature for a long time before that though[2]. [1] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=14&issue=49 http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=14&issue=49 [2] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-the-origin-of-phrase-for-fun-and-profit http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-the...
- endlessvoid94 13y agoHah, indeed. I had that Aleph One article printed out and stapled, and would carry it with my books in high school!
- ot 13y agoHave you noticed you are posting this on Hacker News? :)
- f2f 13y ago... where it will compete with articles about the Star Wars Weather Forecast and discussions on TV programmes. yes, the humour is not lost on me ;)