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  Reclaiming Hacks
Subject:   "another definition"? Hardly...
Date:   2004-12-04 07:16:19
From:   jochenWolters
You've got a valid point about how a lot of people almost exclusively associate the word 'hack' with the activity of breaking into computers and stealing data. Therefore, using 'hack' in the title of a book to help make its positive meaning(s) better known is a very neat idea.


However, with all due respect to the book series as such, they hardly add "another definition" for that word, as it did have the (positive) coder/inventor connotation all along:


See the The Meaning of ‘Hack’ and the entry for 'hack' in the Jargon File for details.