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Reclaiming Hacks
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"another definition"? Hardly... |
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2004-12-04 07:16:19 |
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jochenWolters
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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.
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