{"id":3101,"date":"2010-04-25T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2010-04-25T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:32:52","slug":"the-amazing-hacks-of-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/the-amazing-hacks-of-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing hacks of MIT…."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Interesting Hacks to Fascinate People, has it’s own MIT hack gallery. But what exactly is a Hack?<\/p>\n

HACK n<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Originally a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.<\/li>\n
  2. The result of that job.<\/li>\n
  3. NEAT HACK:<\/strong> A clever technique. Also, a brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch circa 1961.<\/li>\n
  4. REAL HACK:<\/strong> A crock (occasionally affectionate). v.<\/li>\n
  5. With “together”, to throw something together so it will work.<\/li>\n
  6. To bear emotionally or physically. “I can’t hack this heat!”<\/li>\n
  7. To work on something (typically a program). In specific sense: “What are you doing?” “I’m hacking TECO.” In general sense: “What do you do around here?” “I hack TECO.” (The former is time-immediate, the latter time-extended.) More generally, “I hack x” is roughly equivalent to “x is my bag”. “I hack solid-state physics.”<\/li>\n
  8. To pull a prank on. See definition 3 and HACKER (def #6). <\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. v.i. To waste time (as opposed to TOOL). “Watcha up to?” “Oh, just hacking.”<\/li>\n
  10. HACK UP (ON):<\/strong> To hack, but generally implies that the result is meanings 1-2.<\/li>\n
  11. HACK VALUE:<\/strong> Term used as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP has code to read and print roman numerals, which was installed purely for hack value. HAPPY HACKING: A farewell. HOW’S HACKING?: A friendly greeting among hackers. HACK HACK: A somewhat pointless but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [The word HACK doesn’t really have 69 different meanings. In fact, HACK has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one which defies articulation. Which connotation a given HACK-token has depends in similarly profound ways on the context. Similar comments apply to a couple other hacker jargon items, most notably RANDOM.<\/p>\n

    HACKER<\/strong> [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] n.<\/p>\n

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    1. A person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.<\/li>\n
    2. One who programs enthusiastically, or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.<\/li>\n
    3. A person capable of appreciating hack value (q.v.).<\/li>\n
    4. A person who is good at programming quickly. Not everything a hacker produces is a hack.<\/li>\n
    5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; example: “A SAIL hacker”. (Definitions 1 to 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)<\/li>\n
    6. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence “password hacker”, “network hacker”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      HACKISH adj. Being or involving a hack. HACKISHNESS n.<\/p>\n

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      The Interesting Hacks to Fascinate People, has it’s own MIT hack gallery. But what exactly is a Hack? HACK n. Originally a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. The result of that job. NEAT HACK: A clever technique. Also, a brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[47,8,19],"tags":[233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}