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I loved this. This fit's perfectly with Stallman definition of hacking [1]. composing a funny joke or a beautiful piece of music may well involve playf
by ceronman 12y ago
I loved this. This fit's perfectly with Stallman definition of hacking [1].
composing a funny joke or a beautiful piece of music may well involve
playful cleverness, but a joke as such and a piece of music as such
are not hacks, however funny or beautiful they may be. However, if the
piece is a palindrome, we can say it is a hack as well as music; if it
is empty, we can say it is a hack on music
Playing The Eye of the Tiger per se is not hacking. Playing it with a dot matrix printer is. In its purest form. :)
[1] https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
- bch 12y agoNext step: generate a QR code that looks like a tigers eye, that links you to code that generates the program that runs the printer, that...
- jonah 12y agoHow very Rube Goldbergian. http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_urb-rube-goldberg.html http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_urb-rube-goldberg.html
- bch 12y agoI was thinking quine[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
- shangxiao 12y agoIt's pretty much in line with my definition of hacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist)
- Toast_ 12y agoI've always considered 'hacking' as finding unconventional uses, for conventional things. Then again, that link (or what's included) is pure art.